Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, describes his latest assignment in the war-torn region of Eastern Congo.

Wayne Madsen: Ethnic divisions are being stoked by client states of the US who arm both sides

Wayne Madsen: Congo has fallen prey to a lot of people that want to loot its natural resources

December 2008

This episode of The Listening Post looks at the asymmetrical media coverage of the conflict in the Demoratic Republic of the Congo.

In the News Divide, we turn our attention to a subject that has been eclipsed in recent weeks and months by the US presidential election and the global banking meltdown: the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite being branded as 'Africa's world war,' a 'humanitarian catastrophe' and the human exodus of refugees that it has precipitated, the headlines in the Western media have been slow to emerge. We look at the disproportionate amount of airtime that General Laurent Nkunda and his band of rebels are enjoying thanks to their comparatively sophisticated public relations machine and how the media are largely buying into their narrative.

As the UN agrees to deploys more forces to halt the DR Congo conflict, Laurent Nkunda, the rebel chief, acknowledges partial responsibility for the upheaval in an interview to Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege at a secret location in eastern Congo. But insisting that there is "no life, no economy, no administration, no justice", he says "you cannot destroy what is not there".

http://www.coopera.cc/es/
Video emitido por Tele Bilbao
18-11-2008.
Este video, está grabado en KIWU, zona del Congo donde en estos momentos existe un conflicto militar gravísimo.

En un poblado, donde viven estos niños, está cooperando una ONG, con base en Logroño, que se llama COOPERA,
http://www.coopera.cc/es/ y entre sus voluntarios se encuentra una mujer catalana, pero residente en Bilbao, Carmen Vidal (Carma), que en una de sus visitas a Bilbao hace unos meses, sugirió humildemente algo de material para los niños que aparecen en el video.
Le contacté con el Athletic, y se le entregaron petos y balones.

Ella y sus niños, se comprometieron a devolver con creces la amabilidad del athletic.

Junto con los petos y los balones, se llevó grabado nuestro himno, que le entregó su socio Iñigo, en la clínica Veterinaria Ensanche de Bilbao.

Unos meses después, este pasado Lunes, nos ha dejado a todos pequeños, cuando nos ha hecho llegar este video, que creo que nos emociona e impresiona a todos los que somos del athletic.

Shashank Bengali: The threat of violence is ever-present in Congo Pt.1 of 2

November 2008

The UN is to send a convoy of food and medical supplies to help the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thousands of people have been displaced in eastern DR Congo amid fighting between government forces and fighters from the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP).

The CNDP is led by Laurent Nkunda, a renegade general who says he is fighting to protect the region's ethnic Tutsis.

The latest outbreak of violence is threatening to escalate an already disastrous humanitarian situation.

Inside Story asks why this crisis has erupted now and how much of it is fuelled by ethnic tensions and the battle to control the country's natural resources.

Grazie all'impegnio di molti volontari che ci vengono a trovare, Byakato cresce anno dopo anno. Un sostegno importante ed essenziale che aiuta a costruire un futuro migliore per la comunnità del kundi la Mapendo

Esobe retouche la chanson de Ferre Gola "Mercure" et Pululu danse "Kotazo". Ba Vrai Comediens Congolais

"Mwinda"-means-"Light" Name Group: Makoma Album: NZAMBE NA BOMOYI (JESUS FOR LIFE) Released: Apr 2000 Nathalie Makoma is the lead singer from the group "Makoma" who went solo with her album, "On Faith".

Le clip de Congo Girls Tellem www.youtube.com/tshimsyly Pour plus de barre !! mdr ! "YOUUUU..Bina kotazoo YOUUUUU..Ningisa Nzoto YOUUUUU....

12 December 2000
Gentil, a fourteen year old soldier, claims he was abducted from school by Kabila's troops and sent to the frontline to fight for the government. Two months ago, Gentil was captured by rebels and he's now taken up their cause. At Bunya, headquarters of the RCD/ML rebels, Ugandan instructors train young rebels like Gentil.

July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In the DRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.

At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.

May 2006
The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labour to extract the ore, forcing locals to work in sub-human conditions.

"Once you get down there, there's no air", describes one worker. "The rocks often bury us and you have to crawl through the tiny hole, using your fingers to dig." Labourers like him often go unpaid. They're forced to work at gunpoint by militias operating outside the control of the government. "Different armed groups do what they want with the population", laments minister Buta Muiso. But British businessman Ketankumar Kotecha sees nothing wrong in buying casiterite from the militias. "If I didn't do it, someone else would. I am not here as some kind of moral saviour."

Baloji : Congo Music Clip

Baloji : Congo music video

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/congo : International logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home of the world's second largest rainforest.

Our film reveals how the World Bank, by far the largest donor to the DRC, is failing to stop this destruction whilst the rainforest is being sold off under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty in one of the poorest countries on Earth.

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Jungle Video

Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and additional reporting by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele on the DRC visit:
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=17

"Congo Man" live by Mighty Sparrow.

Congo Fun

Ray Barretto Mongo Santamaria - Congo Bongo

EDUN LIVE produce tees 100% made in Africa. Check out more of what the do as well other social impact videos at EDUN LIVE. http://www.edun-live.com/made...

Technique fake 2 daily :senegal, mali, mauritanie, conakry, guinee, bissau, gabon, togo, cote d'ivoire, zaire, congo, brazzza, kinshasa, dakar, Don't panik, Lille, Roubaix, Hem, Mons, Tourcoing, 59, la famille, souleve la fonte, gitans, coffe...

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Technique fake 2 daily :senegal, mali, mauritanie, conakry, guinee, bissau, gabon, togo, cote d'ivoire, zaire, congo, brazzza, kinshasa, dakar, Don't panik, Lille, Roubaix, Hem, Mons, Tourcoing, 59, la famille, souleve la fonte, gitans, coffe...

tiré du dvd porte du ciel de Lifoko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRs6VBNsfNQ

INNOSITA8 presents: Ba grand acteurs congolais; ░»Esobe et BidiBdi«░ dans Zero Toli. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Ba vrai acteurs ya KIN elengii! Collaboration avec JamesTinga!

Josky and OK Jazz singing Soweto

Singers:

Josky Kiambukuta
Ndombe Opetum
Madilu System (RIP)
Lola Checain (RIP)

Guitares:
Gerry Dialungana (mi-solo) (RIP)
Thierry Mantuika (solo)
Simaro Lutumba Masiya (rhythm)
Flavien Makabi (bass)

It's finally here..WERRASON & Maison Mere brings you their new hit "Mayi Ya Sika" from album Temps Présent. IN STORES NOW. Théâtre de "Mayi Ya Sika":

Pepe Kalle is one of the Congo legends. He had huge success at the time and in this album Cocktail, he surprised all the young ones that HE can make them dance.Empire Bakuba

Werrason(congo lengend) with Sans Poto feat.Youssoupha(best congo rapper). Remix of Waka Waka. Club banger..Most Wanted Song at every African Party. It's a Must Play.

HD VIDEO MUST DOWNLOAD FULLY!

De nombreux Congolais ont fui les combats au Kivu ou l’armée Congolaise pourchasse les hommes de Laurent Nkunda. Réfugiés en Ouganda, certains dansent pour garder le moral mais la plupart d’entre eux souffrent de leurs pertes. www.france24.com

Groupe musical de Pointe Noire au congo Brazza

Neema Gospel Singers Sinza Dar es Salaam Tanzania, kenya, congo,africa, nyimbo, injili, music, muziki, kwaya, choir, kanisa, church, bongo flava, sifa

This is several clips of Einstein practicing her words on the shower ledge and on her perch in the kitchen. This is what we hear across the house when we're out of the room. See more of Einstein's videos on her website: http://www.einsteinparrot.com (This is not the famous "Einstein" that was featured on the TV show Animal Planet Pet
Stars. The only things they have in common is the name, good looks, and the desire to entertain humans!)

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Bande annonce du film "Jupiter's dance" qui sort en France et US, en DVD (104MN) dans un coffret accompagné d'un CD 11 titres. http://www.myspac...