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France, Africa: Suitcases Filled with Cash Expose the Françafrique Connection

In the wake of the Dominique Strauss Kahn scandal, a new furore is now rocking France and the upcoming 2012 French presidential campaign. Robert Bourgi, a shady lawyer and advisor for "African affairs" has confessed to acting as a go-between for French politicians and Francophone Africa heads of state.

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Republic of Congo: Is the New ‘Made In Africa' Tablet Actually Chinese?

A new ‘made in Africa' tablet computer from the Republic of Congo was announced in June 2011 to much fanfare. While technical innovation in Africa is worth celebrating, it's worth double-checking whether the new VMK tablet is actually designed, developed and engineered in Congo as advertised.

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Tragedy bookends Year 2010 for Francophone Citizen Media 26 December 2010
Africa: The Scandal of the “Ill-gotten Gains” 20 December 2010
Chez Gangoueus: A brilliant blog about African literature in French 30 May 2010
Online Campaigns To Combat Spread Of HIV/AIDS 31 August 2009
Blogging with HIV: “Love is still possible” 13 August 2009

Latest stories about Republic of Congo

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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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

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Blogging with HIV: "Love is still possible"

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Good to see this, Julie. Was looking forward very much to reading it after our conversation in Paris.