Mélanie Gouby
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📝 Journalist(e) 🌿Nat Geo Explorer 🎥 Filmmaker - L’Essence des Souvenirs now streaming on @ARTEfr and @CBC
Joined January 2009
Retrouvez dans ce grand format interactif @RFI mes 5 reportages à la rencontre d'une génération de scientifiques africains déterminés à illuminer le #BassinduCongo et à en garantir l'avenir avec des solutions centrant les communautés qui en dépendent.
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“En réalité le seul allié du Congo, c’est sa population elle-même.”Sa vraie ressource pourrait-on dire aussi #RDC
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Meanwhile the Rutshuru territory is falling to the #M23 rebellion - what a complete failure of leadership.
#RDC_KasaiOriental #VisitePresidentielle I 29.10.2022 #MbujiMayi.Le Président de la République a visité ce vendredi 28/10 différents chantiers emblématiques en cours d'exécution dans la ville de Mbuji-Mayi.
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The international community’s silence on #Rwanda’s support to the #M23 is deafening. The US through their embassy in Kinshasa have been the only country to publicly express concerns even as leaders are gathering just across the border from #DRC.
Rwandan backing for the M23 is THE issue the Commonwealth should be debating in Kigali this week. Given Rwanda's long track record of destabilising Democratic Republic of Congo, this speech is a classic, cynical example of a perpetrator blaming the victim.
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Absolutely huge news, Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist, Nobel peace prize winner and media favorite, is running for president in the December elections. What do people think, does he stand a chance?
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Enfin. Et donc fin du soutien financier et technique à l’armée rwandaise?.
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UN experts reports can’t just be an aside surely? “Kinshasa claims”. It’s the same old story every time. Who will deny today that Rwanda supported the M23 in 2012-2013, as before the CNDP, RCD and AFDL? Why do we play this game? This matters.
Strong African Union statement on the rising tensions between Rwanda and the DRC. Rebels Kinshasa claims Rwanda backs have recently made dramatic gains in Eastern DRC. A thread 1/10
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It matters because Congo is being told to come to the negotiating table, while being attacked by Rwanda. Can we not afford the Congolese the same rights to their territorial integrity and peace as we do Ukrainians?.
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With the M23 rebels & Rwandan troops at Goma's door, this MoU between the EU and Rwanda on critical minerals could not come at a worse time. The Commission knows full well it could be facilitating pillaging from DRC.
We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rwanda on sustainable raw materials value chains. This cooperation model will drive structural transformation in 🇷🇼, benefiting the planet from a sustainable and resilient value chain of critical raw materials. #GlobalGateway.
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Il aura fallu plus de 131 personnes massacrées à Kishishe pour cette déclaration de @AmbaFranceRDC dénonçant le soutien du Rwanda à la rébellion du #M23. @francediplo.
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People are crowding in camps, losing everything, again. Why are they no calls from the international community simply demanding the M23 stops and falls back on its initial positions? Do we think it is normal for the the Congolese to be enduring those repeated assaults?.
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Head of @MONUSCO Bintou Keita tells the UN Security Council the #M23’s military capacities are those of a conventional army and may overwhelm the UN mission’s own. Rare to have such a clear admission of powerlessness by a UN official.
#RDC:«Si leM23 poursuit ses attaques bien coordonnées contre les FARDC et la MONUSCO avec des capacités conventionnelles croissantes, la Mission pourrait se trouver confrontée à une menace qui dépasse ses capacités actuelles»,a averti Keita au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU 🇺🇳.
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Goma surrounded by the M23 and the price of food has skyrocketed. It remains unclear whether the rebellion and Rwanda’s ultimate goal is to take the city but it is within grasps and there’s never been such complete silence internationally. #DRC.
Depuis la prise de Shasha par le M23 et le Rwanda, Goma est complètement isolée de foyers ruraux de production, entraînant la hausse vertigineuse des prix des denrées alimentaires. Ceux qui survivront à la guerre risquent de mourir de famine. #FreeCongo
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Some needed good news in these bleak weeks ahead of #COP26: as minister @Evebazaiba told me a few weeks ago, #DRC is suspending contracts on logging concessions that were unlawfully attributed by her predecessor, and will be auditing them #CongoBasin
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Of all Central African country to watch for the next coup, DRC should be top of the list. Tshisekedi is unpopular, his power fragile and the military is still largely loyal to former president Kabila.
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I went back through my old 2012-2013 contact book and travelled to Bunagana to meet the «new» #M23 to report on the rebellion’s comeback for @ForeignPolicy . Geopolitics and men: a look at what’s brought back war to the region #DRC #Rwanda
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Mind blowing how many inaccuracies can be crammed into one article 😳 @WSJ Just for starters, the M23 rebels currently fighting were never reintegrated in the army in 2013, they were in refugee camps in Uganda, waiting.
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Meanwhile in #Bukavu thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest the attack on Goma by the #M23 and #RDF, and affirm that eastern Congo is part of the #DRC "il n'y a pas de RDC sans l'Est". Fear is growing that #Rwanda plans to annex the entire Kivu region.
🚨A l’instant, des milliers d’habitants de Bukavu au #SudKivu organisent une marche pacifique pour dire NON🚫 à la rébellion du M23 dans l'Est de la #RDC 🇨🇩. @radiookapi
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Pourquoi le gouvernement français demeure-t-il largement silencieux face au soutien du M23 par le Rwanda? Merci à François Ruffin de m’avoir invitée pour parler de la situation à l’est de la #RDC au côté de @distelzola.
Un million de déplacés, des massacres, la famine. C'est ce que vivent les habitants du Kivu, à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo. En jeu : des milices armées, soutenues par le gouvernement rwandais. Dans le silence des autorités françaises. Guerre au Congo : la
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@wembi_steve Salut Steve, j’ai eu les mêmes photos mais cela ne ressemble pas trop à Makenga? Ou alors il a rajeuni et bien mangé?.
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Le tribunal de grande instance de Kinshasa-Gombe a refusé la liberté provisoire à Stanys Bujakera. Pendant ce temps des criminels de guerre circulent librement en #RDC. #FreeStanys @StanysBujakera.
#RDC #FreeStanis : « @StanysBujakera est derrière les barreaux pour de simples supposés délit de presse. Il ne s’agit pas de justice, il s’agit d’intimidation », dit Mélanie Gouby, journaliste et réalisatrice qui demande sa libération #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Midnight in Kinshasa: as Kabila's mandate expires, people are blowing whistles & building barricades in popular neighborhoods #CongoCrisis.
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Merci à @fredbauma90 et @jasonkstearns pour leur clarté là où nombreux se cachent derrière des “selon tel rapport” et “allegedly”. Nous savons. Jusqu’à quand le profit va-t-il prendre le pas sur la morale et le droit @francediplo ? .
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Thrilled @virungamovie got nominated for an Oscar. What an honor and privilege to be representing #Congo. Go #TeamVirunga!.
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With the #DRC government’s oil auction and the M23 rebels’ return, the #Virunga National Park is facing all too familiar threats once again. For the @guardian I went back to witness the progress made in the last decade and all that is at stake @gorillacd
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Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in the city and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again. #GOMA.
Reports on M23 troops entering northern #Goma in parallel to ongoing Security Council meeting. Here, stills from Bénédiction fuel station in Monigi, 2.5km from Goma airport, a short while ago. Tonight could be decisive, eyes on eastern #Congo
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@LaurenceBloch @GMeurice @franceinter @radiofrance @FrRousseaux @LaurenceLeSaux Heureusement que nous avons tous été Charlie n’est-ce pas. C’est fou.
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@adamshatz His circle of friends always included Renaud Camus. He was always an islamophobic reactionary and a pervert, his books laid it all plainly and it is baffling that anyone would be surprised that he is, in fact, what he’s always told us he is.
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@LitsaniChoukran @MONUSCO Le groupe des experts est mandaté par le Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU pour lui faire rapport directement et ainsi informé ses décisions. Il est complètement indépendant de la @MONUSCO.
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@wembi_steve Elle a dit que la puissance militaire du M23 risque de dépasser les capacités de la Monusco. C’est une admission d’impuissance ou en tout cas d’une impuissance qui se profile.
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Don't worry, no one's been sleeping.
Oh what Europe is going to wake up to.
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The fall of a dynasty brought by a people whose literal hunger made them hungry for better politics, better leaders. Classic story. All our leaders should be taking notes #revolution #powertothepeople #SriLanka #bastilledayinColombo.
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As the day draws to a close, the #M23 have surrounded Rumangabo military base. This corresponds to their gains in July 2012. Four months later they would take Goma. A lot of sorrow across town tonight as people welcome fleeing relatives in their homes & fear for wht tmw may bring
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Bassin du Congo: Avec les détectives de la forêt, mon reportage pour @CestPasDuVent à la station de recherche de Yangambi où une jeune génération de chercheurs congolais étudie la forêt pour mieux la protéger #TheCongoBasinProject @InsideNatGeo
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#RDC: Lundi, le mouvement @luchaRDC veut tourner la page en RDC avec Bye Bye Kabila mon reportage dans @Figaro_Inter.
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#Congo’s Crackdown Is Just a Preview of Violence to Come … My dispatch from Kinshasa for @ForeignPolicy
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Back in Goma for a few weeks 🇨🇩 The M23 is in Bunagana and tensions between DRC and Rwanda are escalating. A soldier was shot at the border this morning. Feel like I stepped into a time machine to 10 years ago #plusçachange.
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Goma’a edge, in Kanyaruchinya where a lot of displaced people have set up camp. UN truck is burning, people are angry after the @MONUSCO abandoned the military camp in Rumangabo to the #M23, a major strategic position. Unclear why they decided to leave.
Goma,21h . Panique à l'entrée de Goma au point de contrôle de kanyaruchinya. La Monusco force le passage sans contrôle et tire des balles. La population viens de brûlé un véhicule de la monusco
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European dependency on Russian gas isn’t the only strategic mistake the EU made. Another one is not working towards Africa’s agricultural self-sufficiency and leaving entire countries dependent on exports + food aid. The AU will only lean closer to Russia as the crisis goes on.
President #Putin expressed to us his readiness to facilitate Ukrainian wheat exports. Russia is ready to ensure the export of its wheat and fertilisers. I call on all partners to lift sanctions targeting wheat and fertilizer.
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Good thread summarising geopolitical tensions and (in)action in eastern DRC. Hard to believe it’s where we are but yes, Congo and Rwanda are close to war. International diplomatic efforts have failed to recognise how serious the situation is.
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The #M23/RDF have now taken Sake, a strategic small town just 25 kms from Goma. Experts have dismissed Goma as a potential target so far, but this conflict has taken proportions no one foresaw even 6 months ago. #DRC.
The #M23 rebels + Rwandan forces took Minova today, a key town 40 kms of Goma. Until now, it was assumed #Rwanda would stay clear of Goma: taking the city in 2012 had been a major strategic mistake, leading to the rebellion's demise. This may no longer be true. #DRCconflict.
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The UK has, in recent years, been comparatively more critical of Rwanda’s human rights violations than other countries. Does the deal include Britain turning a blind eye? It would certainly be difficult to send refugees while denouncing HR issues.
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Extrait de l'homélie du cardinal Monsengwo pour la messe de Noël. Ouch. Kabila a du avoir les oreilles qui sifflent. #CongoCrisis
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As Rutshuru territory falls to the #M23 rebels, the #DRC government cracks down on press freedom. "Any publication likely to demoralize soldiers on the frontline constitutes a punishable offense".
#RDC: « Toute publication de nature à démoraliser les militaires au front est constitutive d’un fait infractionnel punissable » (Armée)
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The University of #Kinshasa lost 60 professors to COVID-19. 60! If anyone needed proof of how hard African societies are getting hit by the pandemic. A devastating and worrying void for science and education in the DRC. #AfricanScience
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Land is such an issue in Rwanda that the government just signed a deal with the Republic of Congo to get access to 12000 hectares of agricultural land
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The Essence of Memories is finally streaming on @cbcdocs with English and Arabic subtitles 🌸✨ Four years ago, I met Abdulkader Fattouh, a young Syrian refugee with a dream: to become a parfumer. Together we made a short doc to tell his journey 👇🏼
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Parfois il y a des bonnes nouvelles. Un exemple à suivre pour la RDC?
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@WSJ That - their lack of options to go back home, or really do anything - has been one of the conflict’s key triggers. Minerals hardly play a role here, Rwanda secured routes to benefit from DRC’s wealth without armed groups a long time ago.
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Macron’s realpolitik in Chad is compounding a growing sentiment in the Sahel that France’s interests don’t align with those of local populations. People don’t forget.
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@LitsaniChoukran Je ne lis pas ça ainsi, ce qu’elle dit c’est que la force du M23 n’est pas celle d’une simple rébellion mais d’une armée conventionnelle (cad le Rwanda). Face à une telle attaque elle met en garde contre les conséquences très grave dont le fait que la Monusco ne fait pas le poids.
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@LitsaniChoukran @MONUSCO Je ne lis pas ça ainsi, ce qu’elle dit c’est que la force du M23 n’est pas celle d’une simple rébellion mais d’une armée conventionnelle (cad le Rwanda). Face à une telle attaque elle met en garde contre les conséquences très grave dont le fait que la Monusco ne fait pas le poids.
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The irony.
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
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« Je dirais à mon fils : “Tu vois cette cicatrice ? J’étais en train de combattre pour ton héritage » Reportage avec les Wazalendo, les miliciens suppléants de l’armée congolaise @CoraliePierret @LeMonde_Afrique .
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#DRC: At least 26 killed in protests as crisis talks resume my dispatch for @AP with @SMwanamilongo1 this morning.
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Starbucks offering its 1st single-origin coffee from DRC http://t.co/s5nNXQ6i7N Well done @EasternCongo #DRC #coffee
http://t.co/Iz45NKXYvb.
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Day 19 of our @InsideNatGeo trip in the Congo Basin rainforest. I’ve now started interviewing trees 🤪
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#Virunga made it on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary! Good morning #teamvirunga
http://t.co/MLviwhxv3w
#proud.
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Last year, I went back to Goma to investigate the charcoal trade #Congo #poverty #environment #development #energy.
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“New York-based EQX Biome wants to sell carbon and biodiversity credits based on avoiding the damage oil exploration would cause.”. In a nutshell, everything that’s wrong with carbon offsetting. Great scoop by @pgreenfielduk .
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@talharris1 A lot of the fertiliser used in Africa comes from Russia, and now they are also seating on huge Ukrainian grain reserves. Russia may not be able to supply either to Africa because of Western sanctions but that will only push African countries closer to Russia.
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Victims of the Kaminua Nsapu conflict in #DRC filed a complaint at the ICC @IntlCrimCourt against former president Joseph Kabila. To learn more about what happened in Kasaï during the crisis, watch our @NBCNewsWorld film shot in 2018 w/ @joevaneeckhout
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En kiosque ce mois-ci! Le nouveau numéro de @GEOfr avec mon reportage au coeur de la forêt du #bassinduCongo où les scientifiques de l'Elephant Listening Project enregistrent les vocalisations des éléphants de forêt pour étudier leur comportement et un jour, qui sait.
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#BassinduCongo: comment mieux manger et valoriser la forêt? Dans @CestPasDuVent je vous emmène à la station de recherche de Luki où des chercheurs développent des méthodes d’exploitation durables: agroforesterie, miel, champignons, chenilles.
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Watch my investigation into the illegal trade in #pangolins tonight on @VICELAND #blackmarket #dispatches #wildlife.
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@GerardAraud Le fait que la relation de l’état français aux immigrés découle d’une histoire coloniale violente explique peut-être les problèmes d’intégration. Nous demandons aux immigrés d’être bien sages tout en leurs infligeant humiliations et discriminations quotidiennes. Hypothèse?.
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“À la chasse au virus”, mon reportage pour @SocietyOfficiel sur les chercheurs de l’Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale de Kinshasa et leur quête du “virus x” est en kiosque exclusivement
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Orage sur Kinshasa. Les nuages s'amoncellent au dessus de la CENCO #AccordPasDaccord #humourdejournaleux
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Congrats to Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo for receiving the Goldman Environmental Prize! #TeamVirunga
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Old tropes die hard I guess. Fact-checking doesn’t sadly.
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This is incredible, yet true and scary - a fossil fuel company advert from 1962. #climatechange #foreboding
http://t.co/yRdzo67MyQ.
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#Investigative journalism: if you're not prepared to pay for it, we can't do it. We're human too and we need to eat, pay bills etc.
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This may look like another feather in Kagame’s hat, but it’s really another stain on his reputation, playing lap dog to racist Western power in return for favours.
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@JillFilipovic Disparity in life expectancy, physical labour and the simple fact the reform isn’t needed aside, as a feminist you might want to look into how the reform impacts women especially negatively.
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Couldn’t agree more: they’re no foreign reporters here in eastern Congo to cover the M23 resurgence, saved for me + a Spanish TV crew (as far as I am aware, don’t @ me if you’re here, either way it’s abysmal) Worst than 2012-13 when a few freelancers would come from NBO regularly.
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#Burundi: I had the honour of interviewing Marguerite Barankitse, a peace activist, angel & "madwoman" with a vision
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The #Virunga National Park is turning 90 today! As Africa's oldest. #conservation #gorillas
http://t.co/ZROlIe6wG4.
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#Music: Watch the wonderful story of Bakolo Music, Congo's oldest rumba band, and its charming musicians
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Meanwhile Lucha activists are arrasted for demanding an end of Bunagana’s occupation. Is the government worried people will notice?!.
Merci pour la mobilisation en faveur des nos camarades arrêtés à l’ANR. Cinq ont été relâchés mais @fredbauma90 & @matumo_b sont retenus pour avoir dénoncé l’occupation de Bunagana. Nous demandons leur libération. Dénoncer l’agression rwandaise est un devoir patriotique!
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Come tonight at the @frontlineclub for a screening of Pictures from Irak, a documentary on the work of David Pratt @foreigncorr1 .I’ll be moderating a panel afterwards with David and the film’s director Robbie Fraser #Irak #journalism.
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More on the DRC government’s plans for the forestry sector
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Il est en ligne!! Il y a 4 ans je rencontrais Abdulkader Fattouh, un jeune réfugié syrien dont le rêve est de devenir parfumeur. Notre court-métrage documentaire L’Essence des Souvenirs est disponible d’aujourd’hui sur .@ARTEfr #Syrie #RefugeesWelcome
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Another former French colony falls to a military coup. #Gabon’s coup should also be a cautionary tales to the many who piled in to praise Bongo’s regime management of the country’s forests and environment and asked too few questions of about its oil wealth and democracy.
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Check out our @virungamovie new amazing poster! Epic ;) #Virunga #DRC #teamvirunga
http://t.co/42LLlM9Kgs.
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If you haven’t yet, do read @jessiehatcher excellent piece : Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much #Burundi.
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Journalists are not terrorists, and a free press is vital to a functioning society. #FREEAJSTAFF
http://t.co/4fCFtqtof1.
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@TheoEnglebert_ Je suis en RDC et il n’y a a priori pas plus de pogrom qu’il y a 10ans. Par contre ce récit de violence contre les rwandophones sert d’excuse au Rwanda pour soutenir le M23 pour la xième fois.
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Bassin du Congo: La science, une histoire qui reste à écrire. Mon @ReportageRFI à la station de recherche de Yangambi où une jeune génération de chercheurs congolais réinvestît un lieu marqué par le passé colonial. #TheCongoBasinProject @InsideNatGeo .
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