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...forests and backwaters of Congo, and the world they hide within them, have long fascinated those with a passion for the unknown. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's 1902 classic novella on the horrors of colonialism, Congo's intricate geography acts as a metaphor for the recesses of the human mind--as if in the folds and bends of Africa's landscape we can find meaning behind our hidden desires and nightmares. In such a vast and foreign place, though, even the most plainspoken facts--4 million people dead since 1998; more than 1,000 people dying...
...Arab war. The demons that George W. Bush unleashed in Iraq had been held at bay for decades. Has he accomplished his mission of finding wmd or brought freedom, democracy, peace and progress to the Iraqis? The situation in Iraq is worse than those in Bosnia, Somalia and Congo combined. As for the Iraqis, it has now been acknowledged that although life wasn't the best, they were, and would still be, better off under Saddam Hussein. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know. Luke Okafoakpu Ludwigsburg, Germany...
...Kingdom of Belgium. Over the next hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular special report: They cut to live footage from the Royal Palace, where an emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown up along the border between...
INAUGURATED. Joseph Kabila, 35, as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first freely elected President in more than 40 years; in the capital, Kinshasa. Kabila-who has served as the country's leader since the assassination of his father, President Laurent Kabila, in 2001-defeated Jean-Pierre Bemba in an electoral runoff in October. Addressing dignitaries alongside the Congo River, Kabila vowed to end the corruption and violence that have ravaged the mineral-rich country: "I can see the Congo of tomorrow carrying the hopes of a renascent Africa," he said...
...which there are zero in Next. There's only one authentically chilling moment, when an orangutan peers out of the jungle in Sumatra and swears gutturally at some tourists in Dutch, but it leads nowhere. (And anyway, Crichton is just recycling--or is it cloning?--his own supergorillas from Congo...