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• DRC First Lady Olive Lembe Meets and Invites Pope Francis to Kinshasa

  

  (PHOTO: DRC First Lady Olive Lembe di Sita Kabila, center, presents her letter to His Holiness Pope Francis in the Vatican, Wednesday, September 11) ***DRC Firs... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Majority of Kinois Uninterested in National Consultations

  

  (PHOTO 1: Kinois reading newspapers in April 2012) (PHOTO 2: Opposition MP Jean-Pierre Lisanga Bonganga) *** At midday this Monday September 16, Speaker Aubin... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Kinshasa: More Outrage Swirls Around Resumption of Kampala Talks with M23

  

  (PHOTO: Lt Col Olivier Hamuli, North-Kivu FARDC spokesperson, talking to Reuters at Mutaho, near Goma, July 6, 2013) *** There's more outrage swirling around... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Nine Eleven: Twin Sundown (Olga Vargas)

  

  Artist: Olga Vargas Title: Twin Sundown (New York Twin Towers) Dimensions: 60WX36HMaterial: Collage on Canvas Credits: 911memorial.orgVia: olgavargasartist. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 SOCIETY

• DRC Ranks 18 out of 44 in Africa's Happiest Countries 2013

  

  (PHOTO: Upbeat Congolese schoolchildren in front of their school at Kasese, South-Kivu Province, in 2005) *** The UN World Happiness Report 2013 was released... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Kinshasa: Govt Scrambles to Stem Kampala Summit Fallout as National Consultation...

  

  PHOTO: Front row: From Left to Right: Presidents Salva Kir (South Sudan), Joseph Kabila (DRC), Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania) and Yoweri Museveni (Uganda); AU... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Radio-Trottoir: No Ceasefire and No Cessation of Hostilities with M23

  

  (PHOTO: An anti-M23 rioter in Goma on Saturday, August 24, 2013) *** The 7th extraordinary summit of the heads of state of the International Conference on the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Radio Trottoir: Africa's World War II Has Begun

  

  (PHOTO: A son of Tanzania People's Defense Force [TPDF] Khatib Mshindo grieves by his father's casket at Lugalo Military Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 SOCIETY

• Rev. Jean-Paul Moka Goes Feral on Yves De Moor Who Exposes His Cons

  

  (PHOTO: Scanned copy of Rev. Jean-Paul Moka's Belgian passport) *** Rev. Jean-Paul Moka has chosen to go feral these days on anyone who is daring to expose his... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 SOCIETY

• PROFILE: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka, a Belgian Confidence Man Born in the Congo (First...

  

  (PHOTO: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka is nabbed by Brussels cops for disorderly conduct in 2011. YouTube video screen capture by Alex Engwete) *** In the evening of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Senate Prez Léon Kengo Wa Dondo Causes Public Outrage By Announcing Power-Sharin...

  

  (PHOTO: Léon Kengo wa Dondo electioneering in Kinshasa as presidential candidate in 2011) *** At a gathering with opposition leaders Saturday, August 10,... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Gridlock in Kinshasa: Opposition Wants Dialogue Not Consultations as Proposed...

  

  (PHOTO: Erstwhile DRC Transitional Vice-President  Arthur Zahidi Ngoma in undated photo) *** A presidential decree signed on June 26 by President Joseph Kabila... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 SOCIETY

• After The Boston Globe, The Washington Post: "Printed Papers Won't Be Normal in...

  

  (PHOTO: The August 6 self-reflexive front page of The Washington Post) *** Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, who just bought the Washington Post for $250M, said last yea... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Right of Reply: Rev. Paul Moka Vs. Whistleblower Yves De Moor

  

  (PHOTO: This photo was attached to the Right-of-Reply email Rev. Paul Moka sent to me today. According to Rev. Moka, center, the two gentlemen flanking him are... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Kinshasa--Friday, August 2: Nothing... Except That Kabila Lays First Stone of Ne...

  

  (PHOTO 1: Flanked by Premier Matata Ponyo and donning a yellow hard hat, Prez Joseph Kabila lays the first stone of the new 12-story "Hôtel du... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 SOCIETY

• What Has Kabila in Store for Cabinet Ministers on Friday, August 2?

  

  (PHOTO: Prez Joseph Kabila deplanes in Nairobi in May, 2011) *** The buzz in Kinshasa isn't about Prez Joseph Kabila attending the Nairobi extraordinary summit... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Whistleblower Yves De Moor to Me: Jean-Paul Moka is a Crook About to Swindle...

  

  (PHOTO 1: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka) *** (PHOTO 2: Belgian businessman and whistleblower Yves De Moor during a presentation of his paper on September 12, 2012 at... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Radio-Trottoir Goes into Overdrive

  

  (PHOTO 1: "MONUSCO Force Commander Gen. Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz during an observation mission on Munigi Hill as FARDC conduct an attack on M23... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 SOCIETY

• 1) ITALY: Cécile Kyenge, the Orangutan Minister; & 2) The FARDC Give Rwanda the...

  

  (PHOTO 1: Dr. Cécile Kyenge Kashetu, Congolese-born Italian minister of Integration) *** (PHOTO 2: Brig. Gen. Joseph Nzabamwita, Rwanda military Defense... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Lost in Translation: Valérie Trierweiler as DRC "First Lady of Hearts"; & Death...

  

  (PHOTO: France's First Lady Valérie Trierweiler, center, and French Delegate Minister to Francophony Yamina Benguigui, with one victim of sexual and gender-base... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 SOCIETY