Description: Actor Ben Affleck has been visiting a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's trying to understand, firsthand, one of...
Description: As the UN agrees to deploys more forces to halt the DR Congo conflict, Laurent Nkunda, the rebel chief, acknowledges partial responsibility for the upheaval...
Description: May 2006
The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labour to extract the ore, forcing locals to work...
Description: 12 December 2000
Gentil, a fourteen year old soldier, claims he was abducted from school by Kabila's troops and sent to the frontline to fight for...
Description: This episode of The Listening Post looks at the asymmetrical media coverage of the conflict in the Demoratic Republic of the Congo.
In the News Divide,...
Description: Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange...
Description: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/c... : International logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home of the...
