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	<title>Black Looks &#187; DRC</title>
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		<title>Grand theft Congo &#8211; who are the plunderers?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/grand_theft_congo_-_who_are_the_plunderers_/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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Most of us probably havent even heard of cassiterite &#8211; the mineral used in electronics especially laptops.  There was a time when laptops used to be hugely expensive. Now you can pick up one for a couple of hundred pounds.  I dont know whether there is a relationship between the cheap price of laptops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda, DRC and Nkunda</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/02/2642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Nkunda]]></category>
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Friends of Congo provide some context into complex situation between the Congo and Rwanda and the arrest of Laurent Nkunda.  
Is Laurent Nkunda’s arrest a positive development?
We have reasons to doubt that Laurent Nkunda has been arrested. Rwandan Maj. Jill Rutaremara said that Nkunda was in Rwanda but &#8220;not in jail.&#8221; If Nkunda has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring African Wars</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/02/ignoring_african_wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category>
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For many of us the hourly news reports showing the horrific slaughter and  devastation of the Israeli attack on Gaza is still  very much fresh in our minds.   Daily coverage on TV, radio and news media with endless analysis, pundits as well as live reports.    At some point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/from_africa_to_haiti_to_gaza_fidelity_to_humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/from_africa_to_haiti_to_gaza_fidelity_to_humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=2466</guid>
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Jacques Depelchin, peace activist and Executive Director of the Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity based in the DRC, has written a poem &#8220;From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity&#8221;.  The poem makes the connection between historical and contemporary struggles for liberation and justice from Africa to the Americas, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/january/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=2210</guid>
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		<title>Beyond Rape in the Congo</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/beyond_rape_in_the_congo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[16 Days of Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender Violence]]></category>
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I and I think many other bloggers wonder which media we can trust which makes it difficult to post and or comment on what we read in papers such as the Guardian, Independent, NYT etc.  I read this story two weeks &#8211; an awful awful account of the most hideous rapes by women survivors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on DRC confict</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/thoughts_on_drc_confict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/thoughts_on_drc_confict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
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Trying to understand and give some context to the renewal of conflict in the DRC is extremely difficult.    I recently spoke briefly with Dieudonné Wedi who is a DRC national and a human rights defender who has written on the violence perpetrated on women and children, for  his thoughts on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal story from the DRC</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/personal_story_from_the_drc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/personal_story_from_the_drc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>

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Park Ranger, Benjamin Mujinya from the Virunga National Park recounts how the rebels killed his father.  

DRC;
Virunga National Park; 
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		<title>Ushahidi mapping DRC confict</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/ushahidi_mapping_drc_confict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/ushahidi_mapping_drc_confict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>

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&#8220;Half-baked software&#8221; or not Ushahidi   makes a timely deployment to map the conflict in the DRC

The mobile number to send SMS reports to is +243992592111.
For more on the &#8220;fight for DRC resources&#8221; see this piece by Mandisi Majavu
It is reported that the cutback on tin production, which has forced tin buyers to rely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRC: people not profit</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/drc_people_not_profit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/drc_people_not_profit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>

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Today&#8217;s BBC reports rapes and killings by rebels and DRC forces as 250,000 people are displaced hiding in the bush or simply trekking along roads to nowhere. One only has to listen to stories by asylum seekers and refugees in the UK to know what horrors women, children and men are faced with.   [...]]]></description>
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