· May, 2010

Stories about D.R. of Congo from May, 2010

Egypt: No Longer Jewel of the Nile

Four of the seven upstream Nile Basin Initiative countries have decided to sign a new Nile deal. Despite strong Egyptian and Sudanese opposition, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia signed a new water-sharing agreement. Egyptian bloggers react to the news in this post by Marwa Rakha.

Belgium: Comic Strip “Tintin in the Congo” Faces Ban Over Racism

  11 May 2010

Tintin in the Congo, the second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé and featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero,  faces ban over racism. On his blog Alain Mabanckou thinks that «Tintin must remain as a proof...