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• Watching the Vanishing Forests of the Congo on Kinshasa Highways

  

  I snapped this picture of a flatbed logging trailer on Lumumba Boulevard in the Kinshasa N'Djili commune with my iPhone from the roof of the broken-down car tha... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Hoo-hah in Kinshasa Over Côte d'Ivoire National Assembly Guillaume Soro's...

  

  (PHOTO: Côte d'Ivoire National Assembly Speaker Guillaume Soro speaking when still Prime Minister in 2011) *** A hoo-ha broke out in the streets of Kinshasa thi... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Kinshasa Opposition Contrasts Alexis Sinduhije's "triumphant" Homecoming in...

  

  (Alexis Sinduhije in the garden of his Kinshasa retreat in downtown Gombe Commune hours before his return to Bujumbura via Nairobi) *** Pro-Kabila presidential... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Kinshasa: Butterfly Season

  

  (PHOTO 1:A butterfly feeding on a discarded piece of banana) (PHOTO 2: A basketful of safous aka butterfruits) ... This is the rainy season in the Kinshasa area. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Radio-Trottoir: North Kivu: DRC-government Fueled Merry-go-round

  

  (PHOTO: M23 General Sultani Makenga) *** Kinshasa is at fever pitch after news broke that on Sunday night the FARDC, without any credible explanation, handed... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 SOCIETY

• A Callous Buckraker Called Tony Blair

  

  (PHOTO: Tony Blair surrounded by the human shield of his buckraking operations in Rwanda) *** It seems to me to be not even worthwhile to respond to the wild... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 SOCIETY

• DRC Gender Minister Geneviève Inagosi Goes to War Against March-8 Sarongs

  

  (PHOTO 1: A March-8 commemorative sarong on display at a store in Kinshasa) * (Photo 2: Geneviève Inagosi, DRC Minister of Gender, Family and Child at a press... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Radio-Trottoir: On Dialogue & on Dissembler-in-chief Paul Kagame

  

  (PHOTO: Prez Paul Kagame in Addis Ababa, Sunday, February 24, 2013) *** Growing anger is palpable in the streets and among radical oppositionists in Kinshasa... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 SOCIETY

• A Botched Wonga Coup Masterminded by a Nutcase with Moniker of Etienne Kabila

  

  (PHOTO: 46-year-old Etienne Kiza aka Etienne Taratibu Kabila, self-proclaimed oldest son of Mzee Laurent-Désiré Kabila. He claims to be the rightful heir to... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Donnybrook at Kinshasa University

  

  (Scorched patch of grass at Kinshasa University where cops burned academic gowns and caps used by students for banned commencement on Saturday, January 12,... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Enter South African National Defence Force... Where François Hollande Mocked...

  

  (PHOTO: "South African Soldiers during a two-week leadership continuation training exercise called Revelation II, held at the Touws River Training Area in... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 SOCIETY

• How DRC Military Intelligence Nabbed the Three Murderers of Gen. Bikweto "Biki"...

  

  (A Belgian army issue Browning handgun similar to the one Gen. Bikweto used to shoot and wound one of his murderers) *** It was a sad today in Kinshasa for thos... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Rogue MP Roger Lumbala Materializes in Kampala as Vice-President of M23...

  

  (PHOTO: Rogue MP and M23 wannabe Roger Lumbala) *** Rogue MP Roger Lumbala, who was arrested in Bujumbura back in early September of last year as he was... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SOCIETY

• A Rant Against iPhone 4s, the World's Most Africa-unfriendly Mobile

  

  (On my improvised workbench with tools to chop off a standard SIM card down to the size 12x16mm of a micro SIM card to fit into an iPhone 4s: a razor blade, a... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 SOCIETY

• US Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson to House Armed Services Committee: M23’s...

  

  (PHOTO: Assistant Secretary Johnnie shaking hands after finishing a testimony to Congress on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, in Room 2072 of the Rayburn House Office... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Change of M23 Tactics: Snipers at Goma, Residents Say

  

  (Congolese National Police officers on their way to Goma after M23 withdrawal, November 30, 2012) *** Goma's police second-in-command, Major Bertin Chirumana,... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Kabila's Warlike State of the Nation Address: "War of Aggression is Being Waged...

  

  Photo of a TV screen during Joseph Kabila's State of the Nation Address, Kinshasa, Saturday, December 15, 2012; picture taken at 10:53 HRS Kinshasa Time (GMT +1... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 SOCIETY

• The Long-drawn-out Seppuku of Susan Rice

  

  A seppuku was a clean and quick lethal affair. But in the case of Dr. Susan Rice, it seems to be a long-drawn-out messy and botched thing. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Susan Rice's Auspicious Sappuku: Kudos to Sen. John McCain for Stopping THE Enem...

  

  Right now, I don't give a damn about whatever partisan motives Sen. John McCain might have harbored in going after Ambassador Susan Rice. I'm just elated that... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Outrage of the Year: Susan Rice is an Enabler of Kagame and M23 (New York Times)

  

  (Dr. Susan Rice, US UN Ambassador) *** This will no doubt go down as the outrage of the year: the role of an enabler of Kagame and M23 that Susan Rice has been... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 SOCIETY