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How We Fuel Africa's Bloodiest War

The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again -- and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket. When we glance at the holocaust in Congo, with 5.4 million dead, the clichés of Africa reporting tumble out: this is a "tribal conflict" in "the Heart of Darkness". It isn't. The United Nations investigation found it was a war led by "armies of business" to seize the metals that make our 21st-century society zing and bling. The war in Congo is a war about you.

Posted in War/Empire, Congo, Rwanda

Chilling Echo of the Past

The escalating crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern region of North Kivu is chillingly reminiscent of the war that first erupted there 10 years ago.

Posted in War/Empire, Congo

EU Involvement in DRC Mining Project Draws Protest

Gold mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Western mining corporations have no small role to play in the catastrophic internal struggle of the Congolese people. (Picture by: Richard Wainwright)

LONDON - The involvement of the European Union in a mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has drawn a chorus of protest from local and international human rights advocates. They say the project is rife with problems relating to transparency and accountability.

Located some 175 km north-west of the DRC city of Lubumbashi in Katanga province, the Tenke Fungurume vein is thought to be one of the largest unexploited seams of copper and cobalt in the world.

Posted in Africa, Congo

Soldiers, UN Retreat As Rebels Advance in Congo

The United Nations refugee agency has said around 30,000 displaced people have started to arrive at a camp near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo after fresh fighting. (AFP/Walter Astrada)

KILIMANYOKA, Congo  - Congo rebels closed in relentlessly on the provincial capital of Goma on Tuesday, despite being attacked by U.N. peacekeepers in helicopters. Government troops scrambled south in a full-scale retreat, fleeing in tanks, trucks and on foot.

Posted in Africa, Congo

Cell Phone Boycott Protests War in Congo

WASHINGTON - A student and activist coalition is urging cell phone users to "Cell Out" this afternoon in solidarity with the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where millions have died as a result of conflict over coltan, a rare mineral used in cell phones and other electronics.

Friends of the Congo is working with university students at dozens of colleges and universities in the United States and around the world to carry out a cell phone boycott between noon and 6:00 PM Wednesday.

Posted in Africa, Congo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2008
10:00 AM

CONTACT: Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020;
or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

Millions Dead in Congo Virtually Ignored in Election

WASHINGTON - October 22 - This week is "Break the Silence" Congo week, a global initiative led by students to raise awareness and provide support to the people of Congo. Events are planned in more than 30 countries and on 125 college campuses.

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Posted in Human Rights, Media, Congo
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