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Boat disaster kills over 60 in Democratic Republic of Congo

February 16, 2021 Elwin Mandowaafrica, africafeeds, Boat disaster, central africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Featured, News

– – More than 60 people have drowned after a boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some 300 people have been rescued but as many as 200 others are unaccounted for following the accident on the Congo River. Reports say the boat hit a rock east of the capital, Kinshasa, while travelling at night, which is prohibited. DR Congo’s humanitarian affairs minister Steve Mbikayi has indicated that the boat was also overloaded. “These are the reasons that caused this wreck with over 60 dead. We have managed to rescue…

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Refugee elected first black Rector of University of Edinburgh

February 15, 2021 Elwin Mandowaafrica, africafeeds, central africa, Debora Kayembe, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Featured, News, refugee, Showbiz

– – A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Debora Kayembe has been elected the first black Rector of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Debora Kayembe was elected unopposed and will serve as the University’s 54th Rector, according to the University. She will assume the role of Rector on 1 March, 2021, replacing Ann Henderson who served as Rector for 3 years. This is the first time a black woman is taking on the role in over 400 years. As Rector Kayembe will be a member…

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The woman who fights men for a living and protects young girls in Kinshasa

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 Elwin Mandowaprotects young girls in Kinshasa, story of Shaki—a woman, The woman who fights men for a living

The Fighter and the Pimp tells the extraordinary story of Shaki—a woman who started life as a street child, who grew up to compete as one of Congo’s first professional female wrestlers, and whose home has now become a refuge for street girls who have escaped the rapists, pimps, and thugs of Kinshasa’s most violent neighbourhoods. Shot with real intimacy in the slums and brothels of the city, this film follows Shaki as she fights to raise her daughter, to give strength and confidence to the girls through sport, and…

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AHF Praises World Bank for $300M to Fight Ebola in DRC

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 Global AuthorAIDS Healthcare Foundation

KAMPALA, UGANDA (July 25, 2019) AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today praised leaders at the World Bank for quickly committing $300 million in aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for its efforts to contain and eliminate an outbreak of Ebola in that country that has claimed nearly 1,700 lives. As of July 12, there have been 2,477 Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that have resulted in 1,655 deaths. In addition, the virus spread to neighboring Uganda, where as of June 24, there have been a total of…

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From Democratic Republic of Germany to Republic of Germans: Anti-refugee Sentiment in East Germany

April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 Village ReporterGermany

By Mark Thomas Patterson On August 26th, 2018, Chemnitz, a city in Saxony, Germany, was convulsed by large-scale xenophobic riots following the arrest of two foreigners who were suspected of murder. Chemnitz fulfilled the stereotype of a struggling, post-industrial city that acts as a breeding ground for anti-refugee sentiment. The unemployment rate is twice as high as the German average, and there has long been an outflow of young people from the Eastern city since reunification. History seems to reinforce this notion as well. In 1991, millions of former East…

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Defiant Fayulu criticised as shaky DRC peace threatened

January 27, 2019January 27, 2019 Global AuthorDemocratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Martin Fayulu

KINSHASA – THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Constitutional Court has proclaimed the final results of December 30 elections, despite claims the poll was rigged. The court declared Felix Tshisekedi as the new president and turned down a request by pre-election favourite, Martin Fayulu’s appeal for a recount. Fayulu and the influential Catholic Church rejected the announcement by electoral authorities that the president-elect received 38,6 percent of the vote to 34,8 percent secured by Fayulu. According to the court ruling, Fayulu failed to prove his assertions that he had won…

Children at risk in the hands of the FDLR in eastern of Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 29, 2015 Global AuthorChild Soldiers, congo, DRC, FDLR, MONUSCO, rape, Rebels, Rwanda, UN Peacekeepers, Vision-GRAM International, war

By: Joseph H. Cavallaro- Vision GRAM-International May 26, 2015 – In recent weeks, several hundred Congolese children have escaped from armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Though the freeing of children from armed groups is always a cause for celebration, there are still an estimated 30,000 children fighting with armed groups in the DR Congo. The armed rebel group that uses many of these child soldiers is the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). They are remnants of the original FDLR that is responsible…

Democratic Republic Congo Must Guarantee ‘Space’ for Opposition Ahead of Vote: UN

April 21, 2015 Global Authorcongo, DRC, Elections. UN, Kabila, Kobler, military, MONUSCO

KINSHASA: The United Nations on Sunday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to respect its citizens’ civil liberties as the political climate has turned tense ahead of key elections next year. “Political space must be guaranteed, space for the opposition, space for civil society, for the defenders of human rights,” Martin Kobler, head of the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in DRC, said in an interview with AFP. “It’s very important and we are in contact with the government” on these subjects, he added. Tensions have been rising in DR Congo…

Stop ignoring massacres in Africa

April 7, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergCNN, DRC, Fox News, Garissa University, Kagame, kenya, Massacres, MSNBC, Museveni, Obama, Terrorism, Uganda, War on Terror

By: Jennifer Fierberg We live in a world filled with terrorist attacks. So much so that they become the noise of the nightly news that most Westerners ignore. Simply watching the nightly news or scanning social media for a few minutes will typically reveal the horrors of terrorism in all corners of the world. However, why do some attacks garner coverage, political marches and the response of world leaders yet others barely make the bottom corner of a news report? Earlier this year in Paris, terrorists murdered 12 members…