Over there if I'm
Daniel Mermet and Guivi Anquetil suggested from December 9 to 17, a series of programs spent in Congo, or more exactly in the east of the country. It's called "Congo, Kivu, Katanga, this magnificent African cake" and you can listen here
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The first two programs back on the war in Kivu, and its Rwandan origin. The third issue is an interview with André Guichaoua (specialist of Rwanda).
can be seen that the remarks made by Mermet and Guichaoua are questionable, as it is for both men to highlight the responsibility of Paul Kagame of the RPF in the wars of the Congo - which is no doubt but rather short, because the responsibilities are many and complex: the state Mobutu of Zaire has largely allowed the chaos to settle down, and almost all the neighbors of African giant bear responsibility for the conflict, Uganda (primarily) to Angola, through Namibia, Zimbabwe, Chad ... And I'm not talking about huge economic interests of major Western industrial groups, or the Franco-American rivalry that has not helped matters.
short, if Kagame is not a model democratic leader - but Mobutu and Museveni were they? - You can find it odd to make it bear sole responsibility for the ills of the Congo (which exempts strangely Interahamwe groups, future FDLR, the main culprits of the atrocities) *.
Emissions 4, 5 and 6 deal with the current situation and deal with miners, rapes of women in Walikale, coltan, the cassérite and Goma.
Finally, the sixth issue - the "musical" - is lighter but no less interesting, and speaks of tchukudus Goma and musicians of Gecamines in Lubumbashi.
In any case, it is an exciting series to listen, and I thank Guy Delisle
me having reported.
* I say this quickly: the war in Congo is obviously very complicated, and I am unable to see clearly. We should add that as for the Rwandan genocide, people who talk are often biased and difficult to settle permanently.
can see the famous "mapping" the UN report on violence in the DRC, by downloading here
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