Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Bazunini

RDC : La question nationale n'est pas encore resolue

otabenga1 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:21:28 -0600

Here is a piece from Ernest Wamba dia Wamba related to what is going on in the DRC, in particular in the Lower Congo. On the Lower Congo, the so-called big media keep silent, in great part because they know that the only possible position on these issues is solidarity with those who are suffering, being tortured, maimed, violated, killed for no reason other than the killers' thirst for power. Power for power's sake. read more »

DRC: Will another war break out from the East?

otabenga1 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:52:40 -0600

In the past, when politics were focused on the State, war was said to be the continuation of State politics by other means. War pitted one State against another. Today, when the weakness of a State is perceived as an ideal for neo-liberalist globalisation, war has hardly been declared by a State. Even the so-called preventive wars do not seem to be tied to States. Terrorism is said to be a trans-State condition of warfare and anti-terrorist war is a war pitting evil against good.
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The first budget of the DRC 3rd Republic has been reluctantly adopted by the Parliament (both chambers)...

otabenga1 — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:59:01 -0600

Kinshasa, July 28, 2007.

1. The National Budget is the annual financial planning of the execution of the tasks required by the nationally approved programme. The latter is the reformulation of the national consensus achieved through election campaign debates. These focus on seeking some agreement on the fair diagnosis of the ills of the country and what to do to cure them. read more »

Is this uncivil third DRC republic a state? Whom does it serve?

otabenga1 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:22:51 -0600

1. In its most recent report, ICG (International Crisis Group) has deplored the repressive tendencies accompanying the dawn of the DRC Third Republic. Protests are handled repressively, acts of insecurity, throughout the country, seem to be mostly originating from elements of the FARDC. read more »