Mission Trip to Goma-DRC and Kampala-Uganda July 2011
Peace Christian Fellowship, Inc in bringing hope and comfort to the people devasted by war and civil war of Goma-DRC and give support to the Church in Kampala
The Real Rebels of Congo: Searching for Joseph Kony and M23 (Full Documentary)
The Democratic Republic of Congo is now home to more than a dozen militant groups, factions of the national army, and scores of rebel combatants. We rode along with US Special Forces and followed the path of Kony and the LRA into the jungle. In the process we learned that the greatest threat to regional security were rebels that no one wanted to talk about: M23.
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Fabulous Congo / Le Congo Fabileux
This video is a video about my primary country of origin, the Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or just the Congo. Just like I've made a video about my native country, France, I also feel the need to promote the Congo the same way.
The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo), also known as Congo Republic,West Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by five countries: Gabon to the west; Cameroon to the northwest; the Central African Republic to the northeast; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east and south; and the Angolan exclave of Cabinda to the southwest.
The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa.Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist single-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
Bantu-speaking peoples who founded tribes during the Bantu expansions largely displaced and absorbed the earliest inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500 BC. The Bakongo, a Bantu ethnicity that also occupied parts of present-day Angola, Gabon and Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those countries. Several Bantu kingdoms—notably those of the Kongo, the Loango, and the Teke—built trade links leading into the Congo River basin.
The Congo got its independence on August 15th 1960 from France
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Walk-by Healings in Congo - 1 of 4 - Steve1
In this 4-part series of three short video clips and a slide show from a recent Father's Touch Ministries mission to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, evangelist Steve Trullinger first preaches from Acts 5 about Peters miraculous walk-by healing of people that were laid on beds and mats in the streets of Jerusalem, and then claims that Jesus still heals this way today! Several people with back pain are called up to the platform and healed as Steve simply walks past them, without praying or even looking at them. By the end of four walk-bys shown in the first two parts of the video series, all those who came up on the platform have been healed by the power of the Holy Spirit, a la Peter in Acts 5. Be sure to view all four parts to get the full story. Glory be to God for his merciful healing touches!
TCRM RD Congo arrivee Kamituga
Zaire - Refugees head for Rwanda
T/I: 10:06:16
Thousands of Rwandan refugees and displaced Zaireans were arriving in Goma on Friday (15/11) from a teeming refugee camp to the west, saying Hutu militiamen who had controlled the camp had fled. The refugees were seen arriving in the rebel-held town in eastern Zaire from the Mugunga camp and from the bay of Sake on Lake Kivu, apparently en route to
Rwanda.
SHOWS:
MUGUNGA CAMP, ZAIRE ON THE ROAD TO RWANDAN BORDER. 15/11
crowded road with refugees walking,
long view down road same,
closer up refugees walking with bundles,
group with packs on ground,
boy with bike,
man collecting clothes off ground,
refugees with troops,
packing belongings into bag,
ground view refugees walking along with belongings,
more refugees walking past,
little boy walking with family,
boy on side of road with bundle,
refugees on road,
body on side of road as refugees walk past,
woman picks grass on side of road,
children walking,
refugees walking past debris,
ruined dwelling with skeleton,
refugee with guitar round neck and children,
close up child,
passing refugees on road in town;
3.24
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2017 02 24 Bukavu to Kalambo
Driving to through Bukavu on the way to Kalambo Research Station
Congolese High Street Kinshasa
Raw unedited footage of a Kinshasa High street. The sights, the cars, the roads, the people, the atmosphere and if you really concentrate, the smells.
UNICEF and ECHO assist the displaced & returnees in DRC
Bulongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 20 March 2014 - 35-year old Georgine Katundu finds herself in Bulongo central market choosing what to buy. Her list is quite long and bears items like shoes, cooking sets, as for the past two months, the displaced mother of 6 children couldn't afford to buy food or any other essential household items. I was assisted with food and essential household items because I am displaced, Katundu says with a smile. I am very happy. We lacked everything. I'd ask myself where to find clothes to wear, where to find food to eat, or cooking sets to use.
Last January, heavy fighting had erupted again between the ADF Nalu rebel group and the Congolese army in the Kamango area near the border with Uganda, pushing people like Katunduto to flee with their children to seek refuge in Kilya, Mutwanga, Mwenda or Bulungo. They were killing people. They killed my step-sister, Katundu recalls sadly. In the stampede, she couldn't take her belongings with her.
Katundu hasn't used Congolese currency to buy what she needs at Bulongo central market. With more than 1,100 other displaced heads of families, Katundu was registered by Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), UNICEF's partner in the rapid response mechanism RRMP, to receive vouchers worth 75 US dollars to use in the open market. Bulongo market has the capacity to offer all necessary household items that meet beneficiaries' needs. Instead of asking businessmen to come take part in a fair or transport items for a classic distribution, Bulongo local shopkeepers are trained and organized to sell to beneficiaries what they are looking for. There are many shops around that can offer essential household items that beneficiaries need. And this gives beneficiaries enough time to buy what they need, says Henriette Chigoho, UNICEF emergency officer.
Katundu also received individual vouchers for her six children and herself, 13 US dollars each, to buy a variety of food supplies in a food fair organized by NRC. Contrarily to the open market for assistance in essential household items, the food fair is exclusively open to the registered 1,397 displaced and returnee families. Beneficiaries tend to sell household items they received in a fair or distribution to buy food, or vice-versa. So, combining assistance in food and essential household items mitigate the risks of vulnerability. In emergency, priorities are food and essential household items to improve the living conditions of the displaced or returnees, explains Hugues Furguta, NRC/RRMP coordinator.
The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)'s Great Lakes Team Leader Sandra Descroix visited the food fair and the RRMP open market for essential household assistance, and exchanged with beneficiaries on their living conditions. As one of RRMP's most important donors, ECHO gives constant support to the emergency assistance to the displaced and returnees on the DRC-Uganda border, as they facilitate access to beneficiaries while airlifting items and humanitarians on the ECHO-supported helicopter managed by WFP's Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS). Bulongo is 300-kilometer from North Kivu's capital Goma, with difficult access because of bad state of roads and security issues, UNICEF's Chigoho underlines. Thanks to ECHO and its support to UNHAS, we could reach this site by helicopter.
In order to enable displaced and returnee children, men and women to begin a normal life again, the RRMP continues to innovate in order to meet their dire needs and reduce their vulnerability.
Kinshasa sapeurs ClubAfricaBBC
A group of sapeurs - members of the Society for Ambience-makers and Elegant People (La Sape, in French) - running wild on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A BBC team follows them to their favourite nightclub for the series The Best Nightclub in Africa, part of the BBC's A Richer World season. You can watch it on BBC World TV on Friday, 13 March 2015, or listen to the story on Newsday and Focus on Africa on the BBC World Service. #ClubAfricaBBC #BBCRicherWorld #FocusOnAfrica
Drone surveillance in DR Congo begun by UN
Drone surveillance in DR Congo begun by UN
The UN mission in Democratic Republic of Congo has started to deploy unarmed surveillance drones to monitor rebel activity near the forested borders with Rwanda and Uganda.
This is the first time any UN mission has deployed drones.
The first two were launched from the eastern city of Goma, which was last year briefly occupied by M23 rebels.
Emily Thomas reports.
TCRM RD Congo a Mungombe (Petit seminaires)
History Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
The region that is now the '''Democratic Republic of the Congo''' was first settled about 80,000 years ago. Bantu migration arrived in the region from Nigeria in the 7th century AD. The Kingdom of Kongo remained present in the region between the 14th and the early 19th centuries. Belgian colonization began when King Leopold II founded the Congo Free State, a corporate state run solely by King Leopold. Reports of widespread murder and torture in the rubber plantations led the Belgian government to seize the Congo from Leopold II and establish the Belgian Congo. Under Belgian rule, the colony was run with the presence of numerous Christian organizations that wanted to Westernize the Congolese people.
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Wake Up, Congo / Reveille toi, le Congo
The Republic of the Congo is my paternal country of origin; it is a country with potentials of becoming a First World country in a couple of decades, unfortunately there is a lot of bad governance and corruption in the country. This situation brings the majority of the citizens in poverty, especially when you have a 52 % unemployment and 70% of the population lives off less than $2 a day. Between the 1960s and the early 1980s, the Congolese enjoyed a comfortable standard of living to a point where students did not even have to pay to study at any University. Students were even receiving grants from the government and the infrastructure was wonderful, but at the beginning of the 1990s things began to worsen, while the country was on the way to its first democratization process. The first and only democratically elected president, since the independence was elected from 1992-1997. During that time, Congo witnessed two civil wars.
To make matters worse, the Marxist government in power is collaborating with Middle Eastern countries that sponsor terrorism: Countries like Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other terrorist countries, that means more mosque building across the country. When there are more mosques, there is a greater chance of radicalization, home grown terrorism, Islamism and the implementation of Sharia Law. Congo had 1,5 % Muslims, now it is about 15 %. Congo has natural resources like : Oil, gas, zinc, diamonds, gold, silver and many other unknown resources, but the revenues go the the wrong hands. I have also included other places where my origins go beyond the Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo; I have also included countries like: Portugal, Angola and Hungary on this video where I demonstrated that I do not want Islam to grow there also. I also do not want Islam to grow in my country of birth, France. Congo is not a Muslim country; it is a secular country with a Christian identity and way of life and no Muslim has the right to destroy that identity. It is also about time that the Congolese society stops blaming former colonial powers for its failures, now it all about taking responsibility and change mindsets. There were many injustices during the colonial period, I not ignoring it, and I know those injustices were wrong,but now it is all about taking responsibility and stop shifting the blame to former settlers.
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The Surprising Sartorial Culture Of Congolese 'Sapeurs'
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Republic of Congo profile - Overview
Congo Must Diversify its Economy and Think about the Post-Oil Era
Trop des mosquées au Congo
Immigration Musulmane au Congo(Muslim immigration in the Congo)
Sassou-Nguesso's $400,000 Hotel Bill Exposed on FoxNews
Pygmies of Congo
Discrimination in Congo-Brazzaville
LGBT rights in the Republic of the Congo
Zaire/Rwanda - PM Kengo Wa Dondo Re-opens Border
Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo led a procession of about 20
carloads of officials and red-bereted soldiers to reopen the
Zaire-Rwanda border on Sunday (24/7). The move brought cheers and
yells from waiting refugees. After wa Dondo declared the border
open, about a thousand people started walking hesitantly toward
the crossing. Earlier, Zairean troops gathered weapons and
ammunition, some of which had been dumped by retreating soldiers
of the ousted Rwandan government.
SHOWS:
NEAR GOMA
us soldiers getting out of jeeps
walking to lake
checking lake
writing notes
refugees near lake
jeeps driving off
ZAIRE/RWANDA BORDER
Zairean border guards gathering weapons
gvs border with refugees waiting to cross
Wa Dondo arrives
Wa Dondo statement in French declaring the border open
Wa Dondo into car and drives away
border post
line of refugees
refugees applause
vs refugees crossing border
GOMA
exterior Goma hospital
ambulance arriving
hospital ward
sick people on benches, on mattreses, on the floor
more dire conditions in hospital
NEAR GOMA
various hutu exile soldiers in uniform on side of road
soldiers on vehicles
soldiers cooking
close-up of army ingsignia on uniform
more of soldiers along side road
GOMA
exteriors of Catholic church
refugees on ground
statue of virgin mary
inside church
people singing
vs close-up congregation.
exterior church
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ZAIRE: ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FLEE FIERCE FIGHTING UPDATE
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More than a hundred Roman Catholic missionaries, mostly Europeans, fled the fierce fighting in Eastern Zaire by walking 3 kilometres (2 miles) to the relative safety of Rwanda.
They received safe passage to Rwanda on Saturday after Italian diplomats intervened on their behalf.
Also escaping the violence were scores of foreign aid workers joining a stream of refugees fleeing across the border to Gisenyi in Rwanda .
The aid workers' departure from the Zairian city of Goma has heightened fears for the safety of more than a million Rwandan and Burundian refugees left in Zaire to fend for themselves.
And in Zaire, the leader of Zaire's rebel Tutsi fighters has denied he is waging ethnic warfare, saying he is just heading a popular revolt against the iron rule of Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko.
The final steps in a long and dangerous journey for these monks.
They were part of a group of more than one hundred missionaries who fled the Zairian town of Bukavu for the Rwandan border town of Cyangugu.
Obviously relieved, they were also sad that they had left their flock behind in an increasingly dangerous position.
The missionaries had been in the cathedral at Bukavu where they had sought sanctuary from fighting between Tutsi rebels and Zairian government troops.
But it became too dangerous and on Saturday they left on foot.
Those who escaped after days of hiding were 50 French, 20 Belgians, 14 Italians and six Dutch. Eleven Zairian monks and four Zairian nuns were also able to make it across the border.
As they recuperated from their dangerous journey, they reported that nobody had tried to prevent them leaving they had had no contact with the Tutsi rebels who overran Bukavu in the middle of the week
The evacuation was organised by Ugandan based Italian diplomat Rinaldo Milletti.
SOUNDBITE:
Of course the situation was tense, so they were trying to keep quiet at home but now it seems it is clear that despite the three kilometres of walking they have to do and they kept coming, to the best of my knowledge, nobody is being held hostage , let's put it this way.
SUPER CAPTION: Rinaldo Milletti, Italian diplomat
There has been no fighting in Bukavu for some days but some shelling was heard Saturday, coming from an area about 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of the city.
State run Radio The Voice of Zaire reported that government forces were regrouping in preparation for an attack on Bukavu.
So as they prepared to move into new accommodation the missionaries were coming to terms with the fact that they would not be returning to Bukavu for the foreseeable future.
Also escaping the violence were scores of aid workers who had left Goma and made it to Gisenyi in Rwanda on the other side of the border.
Despite their obvious relief at getting out safely themselves, there was concern about hundreds of thousands of refugees left behind in Zaire.
SOUNDBITE:
Well, it's a wait and see approach. The security situation as you can imagine is extremely vulnerable, there's no way we can work under these circumstances. But you can be sure, we're terrified at what sort of conditions the refugees are going to face.
SUPER CAPTION: Michele Quintaglie, World Food Programme spokeswoman
The United Nations estimates some 700 thousand refugees, mainly Hutus from Rwanda, have fled camps in eastern Zaire.
The atmosphere is extremely tense at the border and border guards fire into the distance as refugees try to force their way through.
Many had taken what they could from their homes before they fled, but others crossing at Gisenyi came with almost nothing.
Many of them could not make up their minds to stay in Rwanda or return to their homes.
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Uruguay ( ( listen); Spanish pronunciation: [uɾuˈɣwai]), officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It borders Argentina to its west and Brazil to its north and east, with the Río de la Plata (River of Silver) to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. Uruguay is home to an estimated 3.44 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. With an area of approximately 176,000 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi), Uruguay is geographically the second-smallest nation in South America, after Suriname.
Uruguay was inhabited by the Charrúa people for approximately 4,000 years before the Portuguese established Colonia del Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans relatively late compared with neighboring countries. Montevideo was founded as a military stronghold by the Spanish in the early 18th century, signifying the competing claims over the region. Uruguay won its independence between 1811 and 1828, following a four-way struggle between Spain, Portugal, and later Argentina and Brazil. It remained subject to foreign influence and intervention throughout the 19th century, with the military playing a recurring role in domestic politics.
A series of economic crisis put an end to a democratic period that begun in the early 20th century, culminating in a 1973 coup, which established a civic-military dictatorship. The military government persecuted leftists, socialists, and political opponents, resulting in several deaths and numerous instances of torture by the military; the military relinquished power to a civilian government in 1985. Uruguay is today a democratic constitutional republic, with a president who serves as both head of state and head of government.
Uruguay is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace, low perception of corruption, e-government, and is first in South America when it comes to press freedom, size of the middle class and prosperity. On a per-capita basis, Uruguay contributes more troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions than any other country. It tops the rank of absence of terrorism, a unique position within South America. It ranks second in the region on economic freedom, income equality, per-capita income and inflows of FDI. Uruguay is the third-best country on the continent in terms of HDI, GDP growth, innovation and infrastructure. It is regarded as a high-income country by the UN. Uruguay was also ranked the third-best in the world in e-Participation in 2014.
Uruguay is an important global exporter of combed wool, rice, soybeans, frozen beef, malt and milk. Nearly 95% of Uruguay's electricity comes from renewable energy, mostly hydroelectric facilities and wind parks. Uruguay is a founding member of the United Nations, OAS, Mercosur, UNASUR and NAM.
Uruguay is regarded as one of the most socially advanced, outstanding regionally, and ranking highly on global measures of personal rights, tolerance, and inclusion issues. The Economist named Uruguay country of the year in 2013, acknowledging the innovative policy of legalizing the production, sale and consumption of cannabis.
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