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ACN-USA News 11/23/2009 “Unimaginable suffering” for refugees in Angola “Unimaginable suffering" and "appalling conditions" have been reported by Father Andrzej Halemba and Ulrich Kny of the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), who traveled to Angola during the past two weeks and were able to visit some of the refugee camps in the...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A few weeks ago I mentioned the fuss the Nelson Mandela Foundation made about the Foreword to Denis Sassou Nguesso's Straight Speaking for Africa (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk ) -- attributed to Nelson Mandela but, so they said, not something he had written for the book. Alas, it turns out Mandela apparently once did have such incongruously nice words to say about Denis Sassou Nguesso...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of Congo-Brazzaville after he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the anti-apartheid leader.
Maritime News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Mining group Xstrata has made its first entry into the iron ore sector by funding an exploration project in the Republic of Congo. Anglo-Swiss Xstrata will pay at least $50 million towards prospecting and a pre-feasibility study of the Zanaga project in the Lekoumou district of the Republic of Congo, also known as Congo Brazzaville. "We've always said that we were interested in iron ore and this...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Bennie van Zyl says they're needed back home, and they would be crazy to go The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre - the country's population is 48 million and rising, while a small coterie of 37 000 farmers provides fo od not only for this number of people but for the surrounding African states as well. It is a very thin line. This achievement is arg uably unsurpassed...
Hayden's Ferry Review Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright recently collaborated with Los Angeles musicians/producers Daniel Ahearn (Ill Lit) and Michael Rozon (Brazzaville, Melvins) to produce Readings from Wheeling Motel, a musical exploration of the poet's new work. The New York Times Book Review has already praised Wheeling Motel, Wright’s tenth collection of poetry, as "uningratiating, bumptiously witty...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Associations of defence to human rights of Angola and of the two Republics of Congo, part of the network of the Congo Basin-Ocean, will hold its second sub-regional conference in Brazzaville from November 24-29.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, has accorded a five-year loan of 40 million U.S. dollars to Central African countries to help with the regional small and medium-sized companies. "Through this loan, IFC will contribute to the development of local capital markets and support long-term funding in local currencies for the local companies," IFC Vice...
Insurance2go News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Indian group Essar have extended their presence in Africa after aquiring Dhabi Group’s operations in Uganda and Congo Brazzaville. Africa is seen by many in the Telecoms world as one of the few markets where real growth is still possible. The poor standard of fixed line services and the low level of mobile penetration in [...]
turenchi (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Africa Cup of Nations Cup hosts Angola have extended their unbeaten run to eight matches, after a 1-1 draw with Congo Brazzaville on Saturday.
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By GUY CHAZAN Criticism is mounting against Italian energy giant Eni SpA's plans to squeeze oil from the tar sands of the Republic of Congo, which campaigners claim could endanger one of the world's largest tropical rain forests. Eni says the crude would be produced in areas of grassy savannah, and wouldn't harm the local environment in the country, the capital of which is Brazzaville. But a study...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Meet Karen Segal: Originally from Boston, Massachusetts and based in San Francisco, Karen played with {{Marilyn Mazur = 9202}} ({{Miles Davis = 6144}}) and Suzanne Fasteau ({{Bill Evans = 6592}}) in Copenhagen as a teenager. She co-founded the acid-jazz band "Red Clay" with David Brown (Brazzaville, Beck) in Los Angeles in the early 1990's. Karen has studied with teachers including {{Dean...
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Francesco Giusti lives and works in Rome. Of this photo series, he says, ‘In Congo-Brazzaville, SAPE is an old passion that has never stopped, not even during war years. At the arrival of the French in Congo, the myth of elegance was born among young people working for the settlers. In 1922, Andre Grenard Matsoua, [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Thousands of soccer fans lined up along streets to have a view of the Fifa World Cup trophy on its first appearance in DR Congo and Congo Brazzaville over the weekend.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
HEARTLAND players will take a day or two to overcome the pain they took from the hard knocks they got from T.P. Mzembe of Congo players.
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