Razed villages and empty fields await Congo-Brazzaville’s displaced

Razed villages and empty fields await Congo-Brazzaville’s displaced
“Life has to be rebuilt”
Philip Kleinfeld/IRIN
Philip Kleinfeld Emmanuel Freudenthal

The jungle has edged into fields left untilled. It has crept onto thatched-roof houses turned to ruins; and it has stretched over empty highways once used to transport bananas, beans, cassava from a region long-known as Congo-Brazzaville’s breadbasket.

For nearly two years, militia fighters and soldiers manning dozens of checkpoints were the only signs of life in Congo’s Pool region, 50 kilometres west of the capital, Brazzaville.

Banro halts gold mine in Congo due to violence, shares collapse

Banro halts gold mine in Congo due to violence, shares collapse
Cecilia Jamasmie |

Namoya mine. (Image courtesy of Banro.)


Shares in Canadian gold miner Banro Corporation (TSX:BAA) (NYSE MKT:BAA) were getting hammered Monday after the company revealed it had to suspend operations and temporarily evacuate employees at its Namoya gold mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo due to violence.

Kony 2017: From Guerrilla Marketing to Guerrilla Warfare

Αrt2598 Σαββατο 4 Μαρτίου 2017
Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.
DUNGU, Democratic Republic of the Congo — The sun was disappearing behind hills thick with kapok trees when the Lord’s Resistance Army attacked a village near Masombo, just south of the South Sudanese border. Men and boys fled into the bush, afraid that the notorious dreadlocked gunmen might abduct them and force them to fight.