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Sitting on a bed in a refugee camp in Katanga, a cursed province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), Mukeya Ulumba, 28, recounts the epic losses she has suffered in recent months. Several of her relatives and neighbors were killed when antigovernment rebels stormed their village last November, moving from house to house in a murder spree that lasted for hours. Ulumba and her husband managed to flee with their four children, leaving behind their life's possessions, a ravaged community of torched houses and the bloodied corpses of family members and friends. Now Ulumba is struggling...
Some wars go on killing long after they end. In Congo, a nation of 63 million people in the heart of Africa, a peace deal signed more than three years ago was supposed to halt a war that drew in belligerents from at least eight other countries, producing a record of human devastation unmatched in recent history. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) estimates that 3.9 million people have died from war-related causes since the conflict in Congo began in 1998, making it the world's most lethal conflict since World...
...people, the vestiges of monarchical cravings are there for all to see in many a society. Otherwise, how could one explain society's fascination with the progeny and close relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya...
...monarchical cravings are there for all to see in many a society. Otherwise, how could one explain society's fascination with the progeny and close relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys (and even the Bushes) of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? It is as if the desire to continue reverencing and being ruled by established bloodlines were encoded in our dna. James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya
African money is among the dirtiest in the world - literally. Many African central banks simply don't replace notes until they fall apart. In countries torn by war, like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Sierra Leone, years can pass before new notes are printed. In Somalia a few years back, bank notes became so scarce that warlords started printing their own money, causing inflation, predictably, to skyrocket...