Rev. Jean-Paul Moka goes feral on Yves De Moor who exposes his cons

(PHOTO: Scanned copy of Rev. Jean-Paul Moka's Belgian passport) *** Rev. Jean-Paul Moka has chosen to go feral these days on anyone who is daring to expose his cons. And chief among those exposing Moka's malfeasances is Belgian whistleblower Yves De Moor, whom Moka is now accusing of pedophilia, by using broken links to fake articles penned by a fictional French journalist called Lesage of the newsmagazine L'Express. But the poor syntax and the...

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PROFILE: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka, a Belgian Confidence Man born in the Congo (First in an Occasional Series)

(PHOTO: Rev. Jean-Paul Moka is nabbed by Brussels cops for disorderly conduct in 2011. YouTube video screen capture by Alex Engwete) *** In the evening of Tuesday, September 20, 1988, in one of the conference rooms of the sprawling Harvard University campus near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts,  a motley group of about twenty black students and activists had convened a press conference for the launch of a new, nebulous group...

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Senate Prez Léon Kengo wa Dondo Causes Public Outrage By Announcing Power-Sharing In Wake Of National Consultations

(PHOTO: Léon Kengo wa Dondo electioneering in Kinshasa as presidential candidate in 2011) *** At a gathering with opposition leaders Saturday, August 10, Senate President and newly-minted co-chair in the Presidium of the National Consultations Léon Kengo wa Dondo told the audience: "We want [...] that all those participating [in the National Consultations] also contribute to the resolutions that could serve tomorrow as the minimal program [...]...

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Gridlock in Kinshasa: Opposition Wants Dialogue Not Consultations as proposed by Kabila

(PHOTO: Erstwhile DRC Transitional Vice-President  Arthur Zahidi Ngoma in undated photo) *** A presidential decree signed on June 26 by President Joseph Kabila was meant to create, organize, and determine the functioning of broad-based "national consultations" between all political stakeholders in the DRC--including civil society groups. The decree also nominated a two-member "Presidium" of the consultations consisting of Aubin Minaku,...

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After The Boston Globe, The Washington Post: "Printed papers won't be normal in 20 years"

(PHOTO: The August 6 self-reflexive front page of The Washington Post) *** Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, who just bought the Washington Post for $250M, said last year in an interview with the Berliner-Zeitung: "There is one thing I'm certain about: there won't be printed newspapers in twenty years. Maybe as luxury items in some hotels that want to offer them as an extravagant service. Printed papers won't be normal in twenty years." (http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/08/05/bezos-in-2012-people-wont-pay-for-news-on-the-web-print-will-be-dead-in-20-years/)...

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Right of Reply: Rev. Paul Moka vs. whistleblower Yves De Moor

(PHOTO: This photo was attached to the Right-of-Reply email Rev. Paul Moka sent to me today. According to Rev. Moka, center, the two gentlemen flanking him are leaders of the Ghanian Parliament he posed with shortly after allegedly meeting with former Prez John Kufuor in Accra in 2010) *** (The rant below is the Right of Reply penned by Rev. Paul Moka in reaction to an earlier post on this blog that implicated him in a swindle in progress,...

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Kinshasa--Friday, August 2: Nothing... except that Kabila lays first stone of new government building

(PHOTO 1: Flanked by Premier Matata Ponyo and donning a yellow hard hat, Prez Joseph Kabila lays the first stone of the new 12-story "Hôtel du Gouvernement" set to house 8 government ministries--Place Royal, downtown Kinshasa, Friday, August 2) *** (PHOTO 2: A MONUSCO Light Armored Patrol Vehicle (LAPV) is pelted with stones by demonstrators in Goma on Friday, August 2) *** My tweet of August 3 captured the universal disappointment and exasperation...

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What has Kabila in store for cabinet ministers on Friday, August 2?

(PHOTO: Prez Joseph Kabila deplanes in Nairobi in May, 2011) *** The buzz in Kinshasa isn't about Prez Joseph Kabila attending the Nairobi extraordinary summit of heads of state of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) that once again called for spurious talks between the DRC and Rwandan proxies of M23. Or about whether--during and after that Summit--Rwandan Prez Paul Kagame is still intent on giving his Tanzanian...

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