Libyan revolutionaries are blood-drenched racist goons murdering Blacks en masse in Tripoli (The Guardian, The Independent & MSF)

An African migrant worker arrested by racist revolutionaries in Tripoli for being black(Credits)***“Libyans don’t like people with dark skins”--A Libyan racist revolutionary to The Independent the arrests and killing sprees of Black Africans***I was an early supporter of the February-17 Libyan revolution. I even published a few posts here on their behalf when I was in Kinshasa: the first one going as far back as March 11 and titled “Sarkozy shows...

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DRC Elections 2011 Watch: 1) WikiLeaks: US Kinshasa Embassy concerns over "Balkanization Conspiracy Theory"; 2) Common Opposition Candidate: "Squaring the Circle"; 3) Kisombe-gate: Demonstrating journos hit massive snag at National Assembly; 4) Bad blood still brewing between CENI and the opposition; and 5) Cyberwarfare: E-zine Le Softonline hacked again by Cyuzuzo, Rwandan Hacker

1) WikiLeaks: US Kinshasa Embassy concerns over "Balkanization Conspiracy Theory" (2010)Among the batch of documents and cables released by WikiLeaks on August 26 is a 2010 fascinating US Kinshasa Embassy sensitive-but-unclassified cable to State with the subject line: " 'Balkanization' conspiracy theory -- a challenge to PD outreach efforts in the DRC." (PD stands for "Public Diplomacy" in Foreign Service jargon). Though created in February...

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Odds and ends: 1) Summary executions of Sub-Saharan Africans in Tripoli; and 2) Shawshank Redemption botched remake in the DRC: Norwegian convicted murderers Tjostolv Moland and Joshua French attempt prison break in Kisangani

1) Summary executions of Sub-Saharan Africans in TripoliBodies of more than a dozen Sub-Saharan Africans summarily executedTripoli, August 25, 2011 François Mori/AFP/Scanpix(Credits)In the general thrill, confusion, and celebration of the fall of the Libyan dictator, scant attention is paid to the atrocities being meted out by the Libyan revolutionary forces against Sub-Saharan Africans. Accused of being Gaddafi's mercenaries, they've been hounded...

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Don’t Mess with my country, French Senator Joëlle Gariaud-Maylam tells Paul Kagame

French Senator Joëlle Gariaud-MaylamNew-Orleans, January 2006First Day of Back-to-School after Katrina(Credits)***Post from the blog of Sen. Joëlle Gariaud-Maylam, published on August 24, 2011Original Title: “Visite du Président du Rwanda, Paul Kagamé à Paris”Translated from the French by Alex Engwete***Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, will visit Paris on September 12 and 13. This announcement could by no means leave me indifferent, and today I resolved...

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DRC-Rise of the Media machines: 1) UNPC seizes Supreme Court over fraudulent designee in presidential ordinance of CSAC composition; and 2) Journalists embargo MP Yves Kisombe for 6 months and will seek his impeachment in a “March of Wrath” on August 26

1) UNPC seizes Supreme Court over presidential ordinance of CSAC compositionGodens Banza Tiefolo and Blandine LusimanaUsurper and "fraudulent" designee in presidential CSAC ordnanceUndated photo(Credits)The Union Nationale de la Presse du Congo (UNPC), the guild and lobby of Congolese journalists, has just seized the Supreme Court of Justice over one member it claims to be an usurper in the newly-minted High Council for Audiovisual Media...

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Nafissatou Diallo: A politico-cultural victim of African leaders’ malgovernance

Nafissatou Diallo aka Ophelia and lawyer Kenneth ThompsonNew York City, Monday, August 22, 2011She told lies "great and small" (prosecutors)Photo: Seth Venig/AP(Credits)Wait a New York minute! Between the long midnight of Gaddafi and the Republican outrage over Jon Huntsman’s “smackdown”(Michael Steele), newscasts made the time and the space to squeeze in packages on Nafissatou Diallo aka Ophelia?This is an outrage that warrants a rant! And, by the...

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DRC Elections 2011 Watch: 1) Joseph Kabila's PPRD holds Congress; and 2) Timeline Update

A PPRD supporter In yellow party colors and "Raïs"(Kabila) written on his backKinshasa, Stade des MartyrsSunday, August 21, 2011(Credits)The frantic cease-and-desist call issued a few days ago by the national independent electoral commission (CENI) to political parties to stop rallies till the official beginning of electoral campaign goes pretty much unheeded. In the heels of other party congresses held recently in Kinshasa, Joseph Kabila's Parti...

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AFRICOM Commander Gen Carter F. Ham in Kinshasa: US to train another FARDC battalion and medics

Gen Carter F. Ham CommanderUnited States Africa Command (AFRICOM)Kinshasa, August 18, 2011Photo: John Bompengo/Radio Okapi(Credits)It's been less than 5 full months since early March when Gen Carter F. Ham replaced Gen William "Kip" Ward at the helm of AFRICOM, after his confirmation by the Senate on November 18, 2010. But Gen Ham isn't a man to sit and fidget in his office at the Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany. He's already crisscrossing...

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Gambian-Norwegian TV Star Haddy Jatou N'Jie tapped to host 7-22 Terror Victims Tribute in Oslo this Sunday

Haddy Jatou N'Jie, 32Gambian-Norwegian NRK TV anchor and musician Photo: Siv Johanne Seglem/Dagbladet(Credits)Haddy Jatou N'Jie--the famous Oslo-born Gambian-Norwegian television anchor, musician, writer, and columnist--will host this Sunday August 21 (at 3 PM local time) at the 13,000-capacity Oslo Spektrum the mega event of the memorial for the victims of the 7-22 twin terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya. The event is expected to last one hour...

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A Kinois Injurologue to his bones: MP Yves Kisombe rails against Reporter Eugénie Ntumba: "That fuckwhat whore who just called me..." (audio and transcript)

Eugénie NtumbaKinshasa RTVS1 Anchor and Reporter“That fuckwhat whore who just called me…” (MP Yves Kisombe)Photo: Facebook Page of Eugénie NtumbaRed Eye Removal with Adobe PSE by Alex Engwete***Context:MP Yves Kisombe was kicked out of the MLC a few years ago for not toeing the party line at the National Assembly. Since then, though tagged as an independent MP at the National Assembly, Yves Kisombe has been very close to the ruling Presidential...

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