congo

Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi. After Mpox (Clade 1 and 2 outbreaks), Ebola now we have a new respiratory illness. No doubt we will see claims that it is the product of a laboratory accident, been developed by Bill Gates etc. https://promedmail.org/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4727745.stm A particularly depressing report.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/11154568.htm Don't we have UN forces in Congo? What are they doing if not putting a stop to this?

WARNING! Graphic descriptions of violence and hatred attached in link , "Postcards from the Edge" Be warned that reading some of these testimonies will be very difficult! There has been a lot of discussion around the film "Hotel Rwanda" and how accurately it depicted the mass maimings that...

but http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4052487.stm Of course what is really important is do Rwandans eat pygmies? (no I'm not kidding).

......can we see the video?

From: Thu Mar 25, 2004 Reuters Er...ahh...mmmm...well if it's good enough for Professor Fortunat Lumu...it's good enough for me! ;)

France is sending troops to the Congo. They admit that they will not be effective. Then why do it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,12292,974060,00.html "A brief patrol by the French troops yesterday made the mission's modest ambitions apparent. Four jeeps packed with infantrymen drove...

Who will provide them? Urugauy would not be the sort of place that could provide much more than it's current committment.