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Africa: Calls for Transparency Over Marked Increase in Land Deals

Republic Of Congo: After the Blasts, Anger and Solidarity

One day after the March 4 blasts in the ammunition depot in Mpila near Brazzaville, the time has come to assess the number of victims. Recent assessments vary from 150 to at least 200 people killed and 1,500 wounded.

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Republic of Congo: Ammunition Depot Blasts Stir Panic in Brazzaville

Poetry Slam Activism in Francophone Africa 17 October 2011
France, Africa: Suitcases Filled with Cash Expose the Françafrique Connection 18 September 2011
Republic of Congo: Is the New ‘Made In Africa' Tablet Actually Chinese? 26 July 2011
Tragedy bookends Year 2010 for Francophone Citizen Media 26 December 2010
Africa: The Scandal of the “Ill-gotten Gains” 20 December 2010

Latest stories about Republic of Congo

9 May 2012

Africa: Will Local Content Policies Help Avert the Oil Curse?

Written by Julie Owono · Development, Environment

In recent years, major reserves of oil have been discovered at various locations across Africa. This 'black gold' may represent an opportunity for economic growth, but the fear shared by experts and Sub-Saharan Africa citizens is that the windfall may not benefit local populations at all.

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30 May 2010

Chez Gangoueus: A brilliant blog about African literature in French

Written by Claire Ulrich · Blogger Profiles

A close runner-up for the Best of Blogs in French Award is Chez Guangoueus (fr). Réassi Ouabonzi blogs about African and diaspora literature in French from a reader's perspective since 2007. Here is an interview of him for Global Voices:

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21 May 2010

Egypt: No Longer Jewel of the Nile

Written by Marwa Rakha · Ideas, Disaster

Four of the seven upstream Nile Basin Initiative countries have decided to sign a new Nile deal. Despite strong Egyptian and Sudanese opposition, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia signed a new water-sharing agreement. Egyptian bloggers react to the news in this post by Marwa Rakha.

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26 February 2010

Silence Speaks: Multimedia storytelling in Republic of Congo

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Development, Human Rights

Amy Hill, the director of Center for Digital Storytelling, describes the process and ideas behind a 4-day digital storytelling workshop in November 2009 with seven women affected by Congo-Brazzaville’s (also known as Republic of Congo) civil wars from 1997-2003.

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31 August 2009

Online Campaigns To Combat Spread Of HIV/AIDS

Written by Rezwan · Conversations for a Better World

To combat the spread of AIDS, many organizations and activists worldwide are engaged with innovative and localized campaigns and initiatives. Today we will discuss some of them who use ICT and citizen media to augment their cause.

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13 August 2009

Blogging with HIV: “Love is still possible”

Written by Rezwan · Conversations for a Better World

A growing number of HIV-positive bloggers around the world are using citizen media to express how they live with the virus, although speaking openly about HIV/AIDS can be difficult.

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13 July 2009

Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election

Written by Elia Varela Serra · Elections, Governance

On Sunday July 12th, people in the Republic of the Congo voted in an election which opposition leaders boycotted over allegations it would be neither free nor fair. Denis Sassou...

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11 May 2009

Paris court investigates three African leaders

Written by Jennifer Brea · Governance, International Relations

A Parisian judge has ordered an inquiry into alleged corruption and embezzlement on the part of three African heads of state: Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville, Omar Bongo of Gabon, and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.

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30 November 2008

World AIDS Day: Blogging Positively

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Health, Human Rights

This year marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, which takes place every year on December 1. Though the impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of...

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2 October 2008

Hong Kong: Banned Halloween Ads

Written by Oiwan Lam · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Every year, the Ocean Park in Hong Kong would organize Halloween party for attracting visitors. However, its advertisements faced a lot of complaints from the public. This year, some of...

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Updates about Republic of Congo

6 August 2011

French

Nadia Khouri-Dagher writes a post on afrik.com [fr] where she praises the peanut, a condiment that has been integrated in most African cuisines: “Senegalese Chicken Mafé, Malian Peanuts Tiguadegue sauce, Ghanean Inkatse-abè sauce, Togolese Azindéssi sauce, Beninese Aziin nusunnu sauce, Congolese moambe chicken, Peanut rougail from Reunion Islands,… : The peanut or goober composes a wide array of dishes and popular and delicious in the majority of Sub-Saharan African countries !”

• Abdoulaye Bah

29 June 2011

French

VMK, a Congolese company, announced via its CEO Verone Mankou's Twitter account, that it will produce the first Android tablet made in Africa. Tech Central magazine interviewed Verone Mankou, showing a picture of the back of the tablet. More pictures are available on the VMK Blog [fr]. An official introduction will be made at the Africa Web Summit [fr] organised in Brazzaville in September 2011.

• Julie Owono

French

minguabiango [fr] writes on congo-liberty about the cruel treatments and deprivation of their rights suffered by some widows in the Republic of Congo: “In Congo-Brazzaville, some widows are daring to prosecute their in‑laws and obtain compensation, sometimes with help from NGOs. They set a good example for all those women who lack information about their rights or who fear reprisals and consequently suffer in silence.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

5 April 2011

English

Is Gen. Faustin Munene, a thorn in Brazzaville and Kinshasa relations?: “After many theories, the police told the media that the February 27 coup attempt was organized and executed by the exiled General Faustin Munene who is in Congo Brazzaville. DRC has been requesting Congo Brazzaville to extradite Gen. Munene…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

23 March 2011

Updates

The blog Congopage reports that an Antonov airplane crashed in the city of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo [fr]. Congopage also wonders why the media does not mention that the danger of building airports within cities and that the airline, Trans Air Congo, is owned by one of president Nguesso's close ally.

• Lova Rakotomalala

8 October 2010

French

Japanese-born bass player Niwa explains in this video interview that his motivation for learning Lingala was to get better acquainted with the music scene in Congo [fr/ln]. Niwa is now also a Congolese citizen and has played with Congolese music superstars Tonton Zao and Bisso Na Bisso.

• Lova Rakotomalala

14 August 2010

French

Benjamin Bilombot Bitadys at Congopage writes that it's puzzling that Congo-Brazzaville is spending 27 billions of CFA francs on the celebration of the anniversary of the independence (August 15) when 53% of the population (mostly young people) is still unemployed [fr].

• Lova Rakotomalala

2 April 2010

Spanish

On Maneno, a blogging platform dedicated to meet the needs of sub Saharan Africa bloggers, schauzeri wonders why Conguitos, a renown sweets company in Spain, retained their current logos despite the offensive undertones for Africans [article also available in spanish]. According to schauzeri, The offensive logos, which have been in circulation since 1960's, do not seem to be perceived as a problem in Spain.

• Norbert Bousigue

25 February 2010

English

Solo Kinshasa writes about Brazzaville and Kinshasa, two closest capital cities in the world. S

• Ndesanjo Macha

21 September 2009

English

Elie Smith blogs about the new government in Congo-Brazzavile: “Why it has taken 63 days for Mr Denis Sassou Nguesso to form his government is a mystery, especially that, no major changes has been noticed. While there is no major change of faces, one will note that, the 37 member cabinate has 10 new entries.”

• Ndesanjo Macha