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Alex Engwete
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Congology: A constant semiotic vigilance on cultural and political practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
LATEST ARTICLES ( 102 )
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DRC: Mobile Phone Service Providers Restore SMS & Mobile Internet But Continue T...
Major telephone service providers in the Democratic Republic of Congo--including TIGO, VODACOM, and ORANGE--announced with much fanfare at the week's end... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2015 SOCIETY -
Kinshasa: Goofing Museveni Opens 17th COMESA With Gay Antijokes Amid Guffaws
PHOTO: Outgoing COMESA chairman Yoweri Museveni hands over the organization's flag to incoming chair Joseph Kabila *** That Africa is segueing backwards into th... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 SOCIETY -
Kinshasa: MP Martin Fayulu's Crusade Against Electoral Commission Chair...
PHOTO 1: MP Martin Fayulu, chairman of the political party ECiDé (Engagement pour la Citoyenneté et le Développement) *** PHOTO 2: Fr. Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 SOCIETY -
DRC: Season of Treason And Uncertainties Within Kabila's Camp
(PHOTO: Albert Yuma Mulimbi, Chair of DRC Chamber of Commerce, CEO of state mining giant GECAMINES, and chief auditor of the Central Bank) *** This year seems t... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2014 SOCIETY -
DRC: 1) Tshisekedi Scraps Trip to the US & 2) MP Wivine MoleKa v Vital Kamerhe...
(PHOTO: MP Wivine Moleka, Vital Kamerhe's erstwhile buddy turned foe) *** 1) Tshisekedi scraps trip to the US Radio-Trottoir has downgraded... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 SOCIETY -
DRC Opposition Leader Etienne Tshisekedi to Embark on a Fortnight "prayer...
(PHOTO: Etienne Tshisekedi and wife Maman Marthe Kasalu stumping at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa, Tuesday August 9, 2011) *** Kinshasa daily tabloid La... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2014 SOCIETY -
FARDC Launches Operation Sukola Against ADF/NALU Amid Dismal Morale
(PHOTO: President Joseph Kabila, middle, with Gen. Didier Etumba, left, and Col. Mamadou Ndala, far right, in Goma on November 30, 2013) *** After Operation... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2014 SOCIETY -
Kinshasa: The Actionable Theology of Prophet Gédéon Paul Joseph Mukungubila
(PHOTO 1: Members of the Presidential Guard in Kinshasa) (PHOTO: 2006 Campaign poster of Presidential Candidate Paul Joseph Mukungubila aka Lord's Prophet... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2013 SOCIETY -
DRC: The Nairobi Declaration Or Swinging Back into the Endless Merry-go-round...
(PHOTO: Malawian President Joyce Banda and her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni signing the "Joint ICGLR-SADC Final Communiqué on the Kampala... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2013 SOCIETY -
DRC: Massive anti-Kampala Talks Demos Nationwide Could Thwart Government...
(PHOTO: Joseph Kabila Yoweri Museveni at State House in Entebbe, Monday, December 2, 2013) *** Besides the guffaws triggered by the photo above in the sidewal... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2013 SOCIETY -
Kinshasa: Police General Célestin Kanyama: "M23 = M-Kuluna"
(PHOTO: A gun-downed Kuluna gangbanger washing in his own blood) *** About two weeks ago, Kinois saw a dramatic change in the way cops dealt with kuluna... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2013 SOCIETY -
DRC Minister of Higher Education Bonaventure Tchelo: One Gaffe Too Many
(PHOTO: Professor Bonaventure Tchelo Lutsima, DRC Minister of Higher Education Scientific Research.) ***News of the abrupt sacking of Minister Bonaventure... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2013 SOCIETY -
Kinshasa: Jason Stearns & RVI's Usalama Project Were in Town
(Jason Stearns, Usalama Project manager, being mobbed by the press at Sultani Hotel in Kinshasa, Monday, November 4, 2013) *** The Rift Valley Institute (RVI)... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2013 SOCIETY -
Uganda Likely Fueling New M18 Insurgency in Ituri
PHOTO 1: Col. Fenekansi Mugyeni, then Commander of Uganda Battle Group (UGABAG) 11, flanked by relatives outside military court on March 27 after pleading not... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Where M is for Murderers: As M23 Are in Disarray in North-Kivu, M18 Erupt in...
(PHOTO: Congolese refugees fleeing M18 crowd the Bubukwanga refugee transit center in Uganda yesterday) The tweep @ChangeIA (Change in Africa) exclaimed severa... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Collapse of Kampala Empty Talks: Of M23, Johnnie Carson & Kagame's Kivu...
Kinshasa "Residents of the Republic" breathed a long sigh of relief when the auspicious news of the collapse of what the capital city's daily Le... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Congolese to Museveni: You Ain't Nothing but a Bismarckian Buffoon
(Ugandan Prez Yoweri Museveni, accused by Congolese to be a Bismarckian buffoon) *** The Congolese delegates to the Kampala talks with the Rwandan proxies of M2... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Prez Paul Kagame Rants Against Those Who "accuse Us of Child Soldiers"
(Angry Rwandan Prez Paul Kagame reacts to the news of US freeze of funds for military assistance at swearing in ceremony of new MPS at Kigali, October 4, 2013)... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Rwandans Deported from Tanzania Are Illegally Resettled in M23-controlled Areas...
(Rwandans deported from Tanzania crossing into Rwanda with their cattle on Sunday, September 8, 2013). ***Thousands of people claiming to be Congolese... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2013 SOCIETY -
Kenya's Bungled Response to Westgate Terrorist Attack
(PHOTO: al-Shabaab predators inside Westgate mall in Nairobi) *** Three sets of facts clearly show that Kenyan authorities have bungled the response to the... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 SOCIETY