DR Congo and M23 rebels to hold direct talks after months of fighting http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJznRf #DRCongo #M23Rebels #AfricanUnion #PeaceTalks #FaureGnassingbé
DR Congo and M23 rebels to hold direct talks after months of fighting http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJznRf #DRCongo #M23Rebels #AfricanUnion #PeaceTalks #FaureGnassingbé
Rumba, but not the Cuban one, the transatlantic one from #DRCongo: Franco & Le T.P.O.K. Jazz live in Utrecht 1987. The band OK Jazz, later le Tout Puissant OK Jazz, formed in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in 1956. At one point consisting of more than 50 members, the group would split; half playing in Kinshasa, the others touring #Africa and beyond. During the 80s competing bands could not keep up with their output of on average 4 albums a year.
#Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hte1jnmgU
We speak to Dr Alex Vines, head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, about the M23 offensive in eastern #DRCongo . He says that the ambitions of the Rwanda-backed #M23 differ now from their aims back in 2012, when they first set their sights on Goma, and one of the group's objectives now is to overthrow the Kinshasa administration, it has been making alliances with other armed groups and some of them may be considering separation from the DRC.
#Rwanda #Africa
And Ken Matthysen at always-impressive IPIS Research has been doing some nice-looking mapping of #M23's current takeover in eastern #DRCongo:
#maps #geography #cartography #OSINT #security #humanitarian #mapping #conflictmapping #Congo #Rwanda #Africa #EastAfrica
PolGeoNow doesn't have a current map of rebel control in #DRCongo, but we mapped #M23's control the previous time it held #Goma, in 2012-2013.
https://www.polgeonow.com/2013/12/dr-congo-war-map-retreat-of-m23-premium.html
#maps #geography #cartography #OSINT #security #humanitarian #mapping #conflictmapping #Congo #Rwanda
#M23 rebels capture #Goma, major city in eastern Dem. Rep. of the #Congo. They previously did the same in 2012.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-rwanda-m23-rebels-peacekeepers-ccb80a43e102737dbf0ed2fc78a188d9
#geography #rebelcontrol #conflicttracking #Rwanda #DRCongo #DRC #Africa #geopolitics @geography @geopolitics
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim Goma, which Congo calls a 'declaration of war'
At least 12 peacekeepers killed in eastern DR Congo fighting
Nine South African and three Malawian peacekeeping soldiers have been killed by M23 rebels, authorities say.
#DRCongo
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/25/at-least-12-peacekeepers-killed-in-eastern-dr-congo-fighting?taid=679550fbb4808000017dc087&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
The miners that mines the most expensive minerals yet living like paupers, the person recording this with his broken Kiswahili says after there is copper after collapsing of this mine, meaning they were mining something else rather than copper.
#DRCongo
#NewSpecies!
New moth from #drcongo just landed:
Sonitha adedapo
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E113787C-3F9C-435F-9290-03F9DBB21992
Publication: http://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.72.9
#EcologicaMontenegrina #SonithaAdedapo
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #moths #mothsmatter
I hope that DR Congo are able to get people vaccinated against #mpox before the vast numbers of American evangelical groups who are all across Africa, come over and tell everyone 'you only get this if you're gay', and will be 'made infertile' and 'part of population control' if you take this - things that are also pushed and promoted widely on a certain website.
And just to believe in the path of the Good Lord instead.
#WHO Declares Global #Emergency Over New #Mpox #Outbreak
The epidemic is concentrated in the #DRCongo, but the #virus has now appeared in a dozen other countries in #Africa.
#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #health #vaccinate
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/health/mpox-who-emergency-africa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#NewSpecies!
New chameleon from #drcongo just got detected:
Rhampholeon bombayi
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA3436FD-9EE8-4ED8-BC25-A1BC771C1CE8
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1
#Zootaxa #RhampholeonBombayi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #chameleon
Frantz Fanon said: “There is never greatness to procrastinate and there is never dishonor to say what one is and what one wants. ”
Indeed, the 2023 elections or nominations can never destroy the PCCO‘s political programme for the establishment of socialism in Congo. To achieve our goals, it will not be a gift from a benefactor or a blank cheque, but the expression of several areas of turbulence from which we need to know who we are to overcome obstacles.
Thus, in the footsteps of the great leader Emery Patrice Lumumba, we are a black light belonging to a race of meteors whose battle trail of our hero must continue to illuminate the DRC with the colour of the red flag. Lumumba as a ray of light in the darkness that will never go out must be found in the touch of any comrade with any political responsibility.
The characteristic of our school is that comrades from our political and ideological formation have the ability to merge with the popular masses. Our youth is tinged with the legendary courage that must face the trials with courage. We are a school of human tenderness. The work Lumumba left behind is our burden, so we can be a banner.
We are an inspiration and will continue to give value to the Congolese revolution. We are a school of patriotism, no one can deny the existence of Marxism in the Congo and no one can destroy what we had installed in the brains of our revolutionary youth. We are a school that trains potential leaders and revolutionaries.
Neo-colonialist domination must never crush our political line. You never cut a flame with scissors. We are a school of national independence, anti-imperialist struggle, pan-Africanism and global revolution.No puppet force can destroy our school. Our fight is fierce and requires prodigious energy. We are a school of consciousness that acts and we train genuine revolutionaries. Our youth is initiated to the absence of vanity, a fearless faith, a generous heart, firmness in principles, fidelity to the revolution, firmness of views, passion for the country, passion for Africa, our mother country, fidelity without any failure.
Our patriotism is lucid and fervent. We are a castle that must write the authentic history of the struggle of the fathers of our African independence and democracy. We are a school that fights not only imperialism, but also the gravediggers of national destiny and the traitors of the Republic. Hence our ordeal in the Congo.
A true Marxist from our school is an ideologically hardened and politically secure man, and even if he were to stray one day, he would bear the consequences all his life. It‘s like chili peppers in any place, the smell never leaves that space.We are a school that scares the imperialists and their Congolese valet. On this, the Pcco is a target for several mafia and occult networks in the DRC. The petty-bourgeois reformism, this complacent rottenness, swears only of the liquidation of Pcco in the political space of the independent Congo.
The oligarchs who are only a feudal and parasitic spider web are a danger to the DRC because these people always tend to refer to their Western masters from where the protectors of the vital interests of the Westerners do not make the CCP accept state affairs. Should we cry, give up the fight or continue the fight until victory?
Western imperialism wants to control all the vital sectors of our country and our opposition means that we are still on the plateau of several humiliations, what to do? Everyone is free to answer the question. Let everyone fight to have their place in the museum of universal consumer products. We must know one thing: we are a great project of hope with a global vision of humanity.One day those who truly love this country will need us to build the Congo into the orbit of greatness. The formation at Pcco gives our youth a healthy and liberating spiritual food, our policy is a carrier of conviction not a policy of enthusiasm and emotions. We represent the rejection of the dictates of imperialist power.
We practice a policy for the dignity and honour of the independent Congo. Our refusal to compromise with the imperialist dictatorship and foreign capital is the reason for our ordeal. We have a strong ideological framework more than the political formations that rely only on money, posts and tribal regionalist solidarity to exist. That is where our strength lies. You have to stay away from being a satellite.Fatherland or death, we shall prevail!
Boswa Isekombe Sylvere
Secretary-General of the Congolese Communist Party.
the lion with a red heart
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/22/the-pcco-a-tragic-ending-or-a-stainless-symbol/
DR Congo army says it has thwarted attempted coup