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JUNE 2009 - Click here to read the latest news!

 
Key News Features - Special Report: China in Africa
 
 
Congo's Tragedy: The War the World Forgot (PDF)

 
British ally behind world's bloodiest conflict

 
D.R. Congo: HRW Report Halts Purchase of Tainted Gold

 
Congo's Coltan Rush (B.B.C.)  
     
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All Africa.com
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United Nations Mission in the Congo (MONUC)
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Human Rights
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Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa
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Grassroots Organizations
Georges Malaika Foundation
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Congolese Civil Society (French)

Suggested Reading List
The Assasination of Lumumba
by Ludo De Witte

The Challenge of the Congo
Kwame Nkrumah

Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba
by Thomas Kanza

The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild

A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul

Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961
Translated by Helen R. Lane. Ed. Jean Van Lierde

The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

Heart of Diamonds
by Dave Donelson

The Congo Cables:The Cold War in Africa--From Eisenhower to Kennedy
by Madeleine Kalb

The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

George Washington Williams: A Biography
by John Hope Franklin

King Leopold's Soliloquy
By Mark Twain

 
 
 
   
 
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