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...says criticism has spurred the World Bank to mend its ways. And on close inspection, many of the concerns about the bank's role turn out to be unfounded. For instance, critics such as Greenpeace have argued that the Ndoki park proposal is linked with a loan to Congo that would promote logging. In fact, there is no linkage, and the loan has been tabled because Congo is behind on paying debts. Opponents have also contended that plans for building a road and improving the navigability of the Ndoki River will open the area to those who would exploit...
...concedes that the plan involves compromises and depends on the future good faith of the Congolese government, which is currently racked by turmoil and corruption. Once Congo elects a new government, the strong arm of the World Bank could prove helpful in ensuring that the country honor agreements prohibiting any economic activity in the core area...
...this drama, we are the aliens. We have ventured into the last vast unexplored rain forest on earth -- the unsullied Ndoki region of northern Congo -- a place where the animals do not know what to make of us because they have never seen humans before...
Devastated by outbreaks of paralytic polio, the people of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) had every reason to be thankful in 1957, when they became the first large group to receive an experimental polio vaccine. Ironically, the quest for deliverance from this ancient scourge may have made them unwitting participants in the birth of a new plague -- AIDS. That, at least, is the contention of a speculative but intriguing article in Rolling Stone...
...bakery, in the basement of Eliot House, is the source of Harvard's Congo Bars, danishes, brownies, Morning Glory Muffins and of course, doughnuts; it is also the invisible force behind "Pie Night...