 | Rwanda accused of involvement in Congo fighting - 22 Nov 08
Tags: aljazeera, congo, Ndege, nkunda, rwanda, Yvonne
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The Congolese army says that Rwanda is deeply involved in the recent fighting in DR Congo.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege investigates the claim. She meets a prisoner of the Congolese, who say he is a former Rwandan soldier. He is accused of being a spy for his country, and paraded as alleged proof of Rwandas involvement in the recent fighting.
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 | Congo's Tin Soldiers - Democratic Republic of Congo
Tags: Cassiterite, Congo, journeyman, Militias, Pictures, Slayings, Soldiers
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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 in sub-human conditions.
"Once you get down there, there's no air", describes one worker. "The rocks often bury us and you have to crawl through the tiny hole, using your fingers to dig." Labourers like him often go unpaid. They're forced to work at gunpoint by militias operating outside the control of the government. "Different armed groups do what they want with the population", laments minister Buta Muiso. But British businessman Ketankumar Kotecha sees nothing wrong in buying casiterite from the militias. "If I didn't do it, someone else would. I am not here as some kind of moral saviour."
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 | Genesis congo
Tags: Cong, Genesis, music, Progresive, Rock
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Video Clip
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 | Congo Na Bisso
Tags: congo, democratique, du, kabila, lingala, lumumba, mobutu, rdc, republique
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La moitié de cette emission spéciale consacrée à la RDC!
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 | Grand Theft Congo - DRC
Tags: conflict, congo, documentary, DRC, G8, government, grand, journeyman, leaders, mining, news, pictures, politics, theft
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July 2005
The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In the DRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies.
At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in the production of laptops and mobile phones. But dispersed among the miners are Congolese Government troops -- in plain clothes for the camera -- literally forcing most workers to work at gunpoint. 'The soldiers always steal everything. They even come to shoot people down the mineshafts,' complains Regina Maponda. Western greed for cassiterite is fuelling the boom -- at an airfield near the mine, soldiers jealously guard their loot as it makes it way to Japan and the West. Conflict mining is a curse, and it is difficult to see what the G8 leaders can do.
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 | Mighty Sparrow - Congo Man
Tags: Cadence, Calypso, Carnival, Congo, Dominica, King, Man, Mighty, Soca, Sparrow, Tobago, Trinidad
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"Congo Man" live by Mighty Sparrow.
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 | Baloji : Congo music video
Tags: africa, baloji, congo, emi, hip-hop, hiphop, music
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Baloji : Congo music video
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 | Congo (Zaire) - Awilo Longomba - Carolina II
Tags: africa, congo, dance, drum, fun, guitar, jungle, lingala, makossa, music, ndombolo, reggae, rhythm, rumba, salsa, soukous, sound, star, un
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Congo Fun
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 | Ray Barretto Mongo Santamaria - Congo Bongo
Tags: Barretto, Bongo, Congo, Mongo, Ray, Santamaria
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Ray Barretto Mongo Santamaria - Congo Bongo
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 | In Focus: Congo's Bloody Coltan
Tags: africa, blood, cell, coltan, conflict, congo, diamonds, DRC, mineral, phones, Pulitzer, resources
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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 with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and additional reporting by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele on the DRC visit:
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=17
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 | Congo Natty Junglist
Tags: Jah, Jungle, Rastafari
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Jungle Video
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