Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo
Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990.
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In the 19th c., Europeans claimed they were doing God's work by civilizing colonies in Africa; their critics described this as a lie. What happened? Was colonialism beneficial or exploitative? The case of the Belgian Congo offers a terrifying answer.
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15 SHORTEST Flights In The World!
Astoundingly short trips you can take by plane! From hopping between exotic islands to avoiding dangerous borders here are the shortest commercial flights you could find yourself on!
15. “Toronto to Niagara Falls”- From the sparkling Canadian city of Toronto to the natural wonder that is Niagara falls is 90 miles, which by air takes only 12 minutes. Sure you can drive along the coast of Lake Ontario to get there but the near 3 hours it usually takes to go only 90 miles can be taxing. The road from Toronto to Niagara is notorious for being gridlocked or perpetually under construction. Because of this, Greater Toronto Airways began offering daily flights in eight-seater planes in September of 2016. It is pricier than the hour and a half train ride but it’s much quicker and you don’t need to bring a passport.
14. “Kinshasa to Brazzaville”- If you plan on traveling between Kinshasa, Republic of Congo and Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of the Congo you are sure to face strict border restrictions, especially if you are traveling by car. These two towns are cultural brothers but have been at odds with each other since colonial times and are separated by the raging Congo River. Most of the locals take ferries or speedboats across but this can be extremely dangerous for tourists, so the best way to travel is by air. The flight takes about 17 minutes to go the 80 miles between the airports and though it’s far more expensive you can avoid being hassled by the border patrols or thieves. What makes the relationship between the two even crazier is that they are both capitals of their respective countries, if you combine their populations it reaches over 15 million.
13. “Tangier to Gibraltar”-The Moroccan port city of Tangier and the densely populated British Territory of Gibraltar sit on each side of the mouth of the Mediterranean sea. To travel the 43 mile distance you would take a 78 seat twin-engine turboprop ATR-72 aircraft. This jaunt has a flight time of about 25 minutes and total trip time of 50 minutes. Tangier has been an African stronghold for empires throughout history who wanted to control the Mediterranean. For the same reasons, Gibraltar has been contested over on the European side. In Gibraltar, you can visit the famous Rock of Gibraltar which is a giant chunk of limestone located at the tip of the tiny peninsula. The rock has been a landmark to sailors for thousands of years warning them that they are about to hit the open ocean. The Rock itself is full of tiny tunnels and remnants of the various fortresses that were built there it is also home to a protected colony of macaques who are the only group of non-human primates in Europe that don’t live in captivity.
Au beau milieu du noir : la vie sans courant au Congo (documentaire entier)
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Romaric est né à Brazzaville, en République du Congo, mais il a grandi à Paris loin d’une problématique marquante : celle du manque quotidien d’électricité. Pour comprendre cette réalité de son pays natal, il y retourne après trente ans et va à la rencontre de Congolais qui témoignent de leur vie rythmée par une électricité qui fait défaut. Durant ce voyage, il quitte la capitale, visite des postes et des centrales électriques bâtis dans la savane et les villages, puis remonte le fil du courant jusqu’au grand barrage hydro-électrique d’Imboulou. L’un des problèmes majeurs du Congo est alors mis en lumière au travers du regard de Romaric, qui se réapproprie en même temps ses racines africaines..
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Talks at Google and Google.org host philanthropist, advocate, and NBA Hall of Famer, Dikembe Mutombo.
Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Google.org, and Mr. Mutombo discuss the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation’s charitable work in the Congo, including providing sight restoring surgeries to people who are blinded by cataracts, and Mr. Mutombo’s advocacy around the issues of human trafficking and wildlife conservation.
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Are you interested in studying in the U.S. but are unsure if you can afford it? Costs may seem high, but there are many avenues to financing an education at any U.S. college or university. Watch this EducationUSA Facebook LIVE -- originally broadcast on Nov. 8, 2019 -- to find answers!
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African economies are booming like never before, thanks
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African economies are booming like never before, thanks
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infrastructure projects to help it tap into the continent's
resources: oil, minerals, and its huge agricultural potential.
Critics charge China with cozying up to dictators and ignoring
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Angola | Wikipedia audio article
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Angola
00:02:35 1 Etymology
00:03:11 2 History
00:03:20 2.1 Early migrations and political units
00:04:09 2.2 Portuguese colonisation
00:08:11 2.3 Rise of Angolan nationalism
00:11:43 2.4 Civil war
00:16:59 2.5 Ceasefire with UNITA
00:18:35 3 Geography
00:19:32 4 Climate
00:20:47 5 Politics
00:24:59 5.1 Armed forces
00:25:56 5.2 Police
00:27:11 5.3 Justice
00:28:30 5.4 Foreign relations
00:29:23 5.5 Human rights
00:29:57 6 Administrative divisions
00:30:22 6.1 Exclave of Cabinda
00:32:28 7 Economy
00:42:46 7.1 Agriculture
00:43:31 7.2 Transport
00:45:32 7.3 Telecommunications
00:47:47 7.4 Technology
00:48:25 8 Demographics
00:51:04 8.1 Languages
00:52:01 8.2 Religion
00:54:46 8.3 Largest cities
00:54:55 9 Health
00:57:15 10 Education
01:01:00 11 Culture
01:02:14 11.1 Cinema
01:02:36 11.2 Sports
01:03:54 12 See also
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Angola ( (listen); Portuguese: [ɐ̃ˈɡɔlɐ]), officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a west-coast country of south-central Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.
Although inhabited since the Paleolithic Era, what is now Angola was molded by Portuguese colonisation. It began with, and was for centuries limited to, coastal settlements and trading posts established starting in the 16th century. In the 19th century, European settlers slowly and hesitantly began to establish themselves in the interior. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not have its present borders until the early 20th century because of resistance by groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama and the Mbunda.
After a protracted anti-colonial struggle, independence was achieved in 1975 as the Marxist–Leninist People's Republic of Angola, a one-party state supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba. The civil war between the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the insurgent anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), supported by the United States and apartheid South Africa, lasted until 2002. The sovereign state has since become a relatively stable unitary, presidential constitutional republic.
Angola has vast mineral and petroleum reserves, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, especially since the end of the civil war; however, the standard of living remains low for most of the population, and life expectancy in Angola is among the lowest in the world, while infant mortality is among the highest. Angola's economic growth is highly uneven, with most of the nation's wealth concentrated in a disproportionately small sector of the population.Angola is a member state of the United Nations, OPEC, African Union, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and the Southern African Development Community. A highly multiethnic country, Angola's 25.8 million people span tribal groups, customs, and traditions. Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese rule, in the predominance of the Portuguese language and of the Catholic Church.
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Che Guevara | Wikipedia audio article
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Ernesto Che Guevara (;Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa] June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and bringing Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba, which precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally, Guevara was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful continental motorcycle journey. His experiences and studying of Marxism–Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism and monopoly capitalism, with the only remedy being proletarian internationalism and world revolution. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle and desire to create the consciousness of a new man driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico (shown), was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as the most famous photograph in the world.
Daily Press Briefing: April 30, 2014
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Angolan Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:57 1 Outline of main combatants
00:03:56 1.1 MPLA
00:06:04 1.2 FNLA
00:07:19 1.3 UNITA
00:08:25 2 Roots of the conflict
00:08:58 2.1 Ethnic divisions
00:10:57 2.2 Portuguese colonialism
00:15:03 2.3 Build-up to independence and rising tensions
00:17:35 3 1970s
00:17:45 3.1 Independence
00:23:58 3.2 Clark Amendment
00:28:52 3.3 Shaba invasions
00:34:18 3.4 Nitistas
00:40:53 3.5 Replacing Neto
00:42:27 4 1980s
00:49:16 4.1 War intensifies
00:54:15 4.2 Cuito Cuanavale and New York Accords
00:57:50 4.3 Ceasefire
01:00:17 5 1990s
01:02:41 5.1 Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
01:06:08 5.2 Bicesse Accords
01:13:27 5.3 Lusaka Protocol
01:17:00 5.4 Arms monitoring
01:25:27 5.5 Diamond trade
01:28:06 5.6 Cabinda separatism
01:33:58 6 2000s
01:41:43 6.1 Death of Savimbi
01:44:42 7 Aftermath
01:46:36 7.1 Humanitarian efforts
01:48:13 7.2 Child soldiers
01:49:28 8 In popular culture
01:52:43 9 See also
01:53:18 10 Notes and references
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The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra civil angolana) was a civil conflict in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. The war was a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The war was used as a surrogate battleground for the Cold War by rival states such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa and the United States.The MPLA and UNITA had different roots in Angolan society and mutually incompatible leaderships, despite their shared aim of ending colonial rule. A third movement, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), having fought the MPLA with UNITA during the war for independence, played almost no role in the Civil War. Additionally, the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), an association of separatist militant groups, fought for the independence of the province of Cabinda from Angola.
The 27-year war can be divided roughly into three periods of major fighting – from 1975 to 1991, 1992 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2002 – with fragile periods of peace. By the time the MPLA achieved victory in 2002, more than 500,000 people had died and over one million had been internally displaced. The war devastated Angola's infrastructure and severely damaged public administration, the economy and religious institutions.
The Angolan Civil War was notable due to the combination of Angola's violent internal dynamics and massive foreign intervention. The war became a Cold War struggle, as the Soviet Union and the United States, with their allies, provided military assistance to parties in the conflict. The conflict became closely intertwined with the Second Congo War in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo and the South African Border War.