I arrived in Kin on June 22. One of my bags got misplaced and ended up at the South African Airlines. It took me two days to retrieve it. The first time I attempted to get downtown to the office of the South African Airlines, my taxi got caught in a traffic jam from 11:45 to 3 p.m. Massive bumper to bumper traffic jams are the bane of Kinois these days. Downtown roads are getting fixed and moving around the capital is a test of patience and nerves. Tempers fly high and some motorists come to blows. The second day, my taxi was able to get...
Monday, 28 June 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Timeout for World CupAccording to Zapiro(Credits)Whereas, according to Zapiro, the conflict-ridden parts of this world have called a timeout on violence to enjoy the World Cup, the terrorist regime of Kigali thought it was an opportune moment to carry out the assassination of its enemy of state number 1.Well, I’m not the least surprised by what transpired Saturday in Jozi. In fact, it’s eerily similar to the first attempt on the life of exiled former...
Friday, 18 June 2010
I missed Mundial games again to go and meet with my buddy from Cambridge, MA, Dr Paul Rajcock, a naturopathic physician. He's seen in this photo in front of the Madison Building of the Library of Congress on Independence Avenue. (I don't even know how the layout of this post will be as I'm experimenting posting via email! So my apologies if the post turns out to be ugly.) Paul is a die-hard die-hard Walt Whitman scholar. Thus, despite being on vacation...
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Flori Chebeya(Credits)Kinshasa media report that the widow of Flori Chebeya, Anne-Marie Mangbenga, has set the funeral date of her murdered husband for Saturday, June 26. No doubt, this announcement was greeted with a sigh of relief by Kinshasa authorities who feared that the family would follow the call by some rights groups to have the funeral on June 30, Independence Day! In a statement released June 14 and signed by family spokesman and veteran...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Illustration of the Trafficking in Persons Report 2010(Credits)This Monday June 14, the US Department released its global 10th annual report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) titled "Trafficking in Persons Report 2010." The State Department is mandated to do so by the law called The United States’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). TVPA stems from the UN Palermo “Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially...
Monday, 14 June 2010
1) House Arrest of Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko: A Canard or a persistent rumor?Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko Contrary to what I previously stated here, relaying what the Congolese press had announced this past weekend—L’Avenir and Le Soft being among the culprits—Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko was AT NO TIME under house arrest.The maddening thing about this rampant reporting malpractice that bears all the features of the Congolese grapevine of Radio-Trottoir [Sidewalk...
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Patrice Emery LumumbaIn his houseStanleyville (Kisangani), May 1960Photograph posted here under “fair use” doctrinePhoto by Dr D’Lynn Waldron(Credits)I must state this off the bat, just in case Dr D’Lynn Waldron contemplates suing me for reposting the photo above. Section 107 of Chapter 1 of Title 17, U.S. Code pertaining to copyright law is titled “Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.” It states:“Notwithstanding the provisions of sections...
Friday, 11 June 2010
1) Autopsy by Dutch and Congolese medical examiners:Dutch and Congolese medical examiners(Credits)The autopsy on the body of Flori Chebeya was conducted on Friday, June 11, at Kinshasa Mama Yemo Hospital by Dutch medical examiner Frank van de Goot, who was assisted by two other members of his team: another medical examiner and a forensic photographer. Dr Tshomba Honda, a Congolese medical examiner, participated in the autopsy.Though the preliminary...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
1) London: Terror attack against DRC Ambassador Barnabé Kikaya Bin Karubi: Dr Barnabé Kikaya Bin KarubiKinshasa Ambassador in London (Credits)Here is a message in French DRC Ambassador in London Barnabé Kikaya Bin Karubi wrote on his Facebook wall:“On the night of Sunday [June 6] to Monday [June 7], at around 10:45 pm, strangers came to my residence and set fire on the official vehicle, on my wife’s car and on my residence. My family and I had a...
Monday, 7 June 2010
General Charles Bisengimana (left) and Governor Julien Paluku of North Kivu(Credits)One of the fallouts of the assassination of Floribert “Flori” Chebeya is the suspension of top cop General John Numbi and the promotion of his deputy, General Charles Bisengimana. Divisional Inspector Charles Bisengimana is a Tutsi who was part of the Rwandan-propped rebellion of Laurent Kabila that dismantled the Mobutu regime and later on joined the RCD rebellion....
Sunday, 6 June 2010
General Jean de Dieu OlekoKinshasa Police commissioner "The body of Chebeya bore no visible sign of violence"(Credits)The stream of narratives of the grisly murder of Floribert “Flori” Chebeya Bahizire I’m reading calls to mind the epigraph of Jason Stearns’s blog Congo Siasa; epigraph taken from the lyrics of a song by Koffi Olomide that purports to describe the DRC: “This is hell's system. The fire is raging but we don't get burned.”Talking...
It’s now clear that foul play occurred in the death of veteran human rights activist Floribert “Flori” Chebeya Bahizire. I therefore apologize for doubting in my previous posts the likelihood of murder in the case—especially for dismissing the RFI report I translated earlier today. What’s more damning is that the so-called senior police officers who are alleged to have perpetrated the villainous murder also desecrated the victim by planting by his body various sex paraphernalia and unzipping his pants. I was at least right in the same post on what...
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