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Unconfirmed rumor floating around the net. A strange choice, in many ways. The position is said to involve not just USAID but the coordinati...

I could do worse than reproduce this entire article from FAIR, a US based ngo tracking media bias and censorship in US news. Congo Ignored,...

CongoResources is on hiatus, a casualty of the current recession. I hope the link libraries will still be of use to readers until I return. ...

We all know the end of the story as it's now being written with an overpriced rescue of the banks. When it comes time for health care re...

A new study by SARWatch says that African governments are bribing African officials to get easy access to the minerals. Or as they write: O...

The New York Times says that China is backing out of Africa, but goes on to give as an example the DRC: In 2007 China announced a $9 billio...

From Dow Jones : U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC, which operates two blocks on the Ugandan side of the oil-rich Albertine Rift, is close to acquir...

From the Financial Times : Mr Sarkozy will hold talks with Joseph Kabila, the DRC president, in Kinshasa to persuade him to back a controver...

Excellent story in the Washington Post about how the global downturn is affecting Zambia's copper belt: A plunge in global trade has sl...

The Belgian news agency RTBF confirms that Vital Kamerhe has resigned as president of the national assembly. "I ask you to accept my r...