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#congo

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DJM (freelance for hire)

If you already watched "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat", or want to, this is a #MustRead interview with Johan Gimonprez

Making films against amnesia
"The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently."
africasacountry.com/2025/04/ma

africasacountry.comMaking films against amnesiaThe director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.
#Africa#Jazz#Congo
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Blast Info

RD Congo : les menaces du fils du président ougandais

Le million de suiveurs sur X de Muhoozi Kainerugaba sont privés de ses saillies depuis le 25 mars. Son compte a été désactivé. Habitué des réseaux sociaux, des envolées lyriques à l’égard de son pays, l’Ouganda, ou de déclarations enflammées à des personnalités féminines du monde entier, le…
blast-info.fr/articles/2025/rd #Congo #Diplomatie #Guerre #Rwanda

www.blast-info.frRD Congo : les menaces du fils du président ougandaisLe million de suiveurs sur X de Muhoozi Kainerugaba sont privés de ses saillies depuis le 25 mars. Son compte a été désactivé. Habitué des réseaux sociaux, des envolées lyriques à l’égard de son pays, l’Ouganda, ou de déclarations enflammées à des…
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Erik

"Konono Nº1 features three electric likembés (thumb pianos), megaphones, hand-made microphones and percussion built from old car parts."

Sounds like they are the Congolese version of Einstürzende Neubauten. However, since they've been active longer, I guess it's the other way around. Anyhow, this is slightly more danceable than the Germans.

Digipak CD cover. Photo, green in color, of three ikembés (thumb pianos) laying on the floor with cords attached to them. "Konono Nº1" in white upper left side. "Congotronics" in yellow underneath. Sticker in upper right corner. BBC radio 3. Awards world music winner.
#KononoNo1#EinstürzendeNeubauten#Congo
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African Music Forum (AMF)

Both events were supposed to happen at the same time, but the match had to be postponed and the concert happened first.

The concert was conceived by South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and record producer Stewart Levine, with American and African artists.

A documentary, known as Soul Power, was released in 2008.

amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/zai

African artists: amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-afr
More music: amf.didiermary.fr/?s=foreman & amf.didiermary.fr/?s=zaire+74

SOUL POWER With Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Celia Cruz, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba...
#Congo#SoulPower#Zaire74
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Wendy Siegelman

War-torn Congo has a deal for Trump: President Tshisekedi wants help kicking out rebels in exchange for access to minerals used by US high-tech firms through the US Sovereign Wealth Fund launched last month

President Tshisekedi is also in negotiations with Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince to help collect and secure taxes from mining operations

#Trump #ErikPrince #Congo #Minerals #USSoverignWealthFund

wsj.com/world/africa/war-torn-

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Proletarian Rage

As part of this scramble, in February last year, the EU signed a $900 million deal with Rwanda “to nurture sustainable and resilient value chains for critical raw materials.” Ironically, Rwanda exports more minerals than it does from its own mines. The DRC, the United Nations, and international human rights groups say the bulk of minerals exported by Rwanda are plundered from eastern DRC. Coincidentally, in the immediate aftermath of this EU-Rwanda minerals supply deal, fighting resumed in eastern DRC, peaking in February this year when the Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel group seized control of vast swathes of the area in this mineral-rich part of the country. Rights groups say over 8,500 people have been killed in this attack. Even the EU Parliament has voted for the suspension of the minerals deal until Rwanda stops supporting the M-23 rebels, but the EU is not keen to do so, putting its own interests ahead of the rights of the citizens of the DRC, and human rights in general.
....DRC remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
english.almayadeen.net/article
#congo #drc #eu #europe #eupol #rwanda #apple #google #microsoft #Tesla #usa #imperialism #dell #HumanRights #sextrafficking #sexualabuse

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