Stories about D.R. of Congo from March, 2006
DRC: Elections news
Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveller has two election reports from the DRC – the deployment of EU troops to maintain peace during the elections and the yet another candidate...
DRC: Labika on ” The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
At Renouveau Congolais, blogger JB Labika summarizes (FR) the entanglements of three strands of influence in the DRC as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He talks of the...
A plea against the 26 province parcelling of the DRC
At UDPS Liege [blog of the Liege, Belgium chapter of a DRC opposition party] blogger Kayembe Tshipamba Jean P. opposes (FR) the parceling of the DRC in 26 provinces, deplores...
DRC: Towards elections or turbulence?
At Le Blog du Congolais, blogger Philippe Lomboto Liondjo questions (FR) whether elections will happen as scheduled on June 30, 2006. Liondjo thinks back to the aborted election of June...
DRC: Shots of Mbuji-Mayi
At Renouveau Congolais, DRC blogger etngandu posts (FR) pictures of public sites in remote Mbuji-Mayi, the capital of East Kasai province: the Cathedral of Bongola, recently built electric poles and...
Le Blog du Congolais critical of international officials overseeing DRC elections
At the group blog Le Blog du Congolais, blogger Anthony MK Katombe expresses (FR) skepticism at European Commissary Louis Michel's enthusiasm and optimism that DRC elections will take place in...
IWD: Honouring African Women – Part 2
Pilgrimage to Self honours the “unheard voices” of African women – the women who maintain our communities but never get the recognition. This is for the woman who watches as...
IWD: Honouring African Women – Part 1
On International Women's Day, African bloggers have chosen to honour African women. We honour our mothers, sisters, grandmothers and daughters. Women whose names you will not see written in newspapers...
DRC: Moroccan visitors
Blogging from the Democratic Republic of Congo Kim Gjerstad in Congo posts on the arrival of King Mohammed VI of Morocco to the DRC bringing with him some gifts!
Voices from Zimbabwe and the Great Lakes
Zimbabwe: Last weekend Zimbabwean politics were rocked by the flamboyant reentry of former student activist turned rocket scientist turned businessman Arthur Mutambara. Mutambara, who captivated the nation's imagination with his...
DRC: More fighting in Ituri
Congo Girl reports that fighting has resumed in the Ituri region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with hundreds of people once again displaced.
A small sampling of the best of what the food world has to offer
This has been a pretty busy week. No complaints at all, I sometimes just feel like I have been in this planet for a short time, other times I am...
