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2018-02-15 Africa Subsaharan

DRC violence risks 'spreading' as 22,000 flee in a week

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Posted by Fred 2018-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Hasn't changed much since Joseph Conrad's captaincy of a river steamer in the Congo over 100 years ago.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-02-15 18:38|| 2018-02-15 18:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought it was Kerry in Viet Nam, Abu-Alaska?

Posted by Frank G 2018-02-15 20:02|| 2018-02-15 20:02|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how much African life has changed in the last few thousand years. Sure tastes in clothes are different and everyone has the latest gadgets like cell phones and AKs, but is the culture any different? I suspect the DRC isn't some kind of outlier, but a regression to the mean.

As for Kerry, pity he never found Marlon Brando after all that time looking for him up around the Cambodian border.

Posted by SteveS 2018-02-15 21:06|| 2018-02-15 21:06|| Front Page Top

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