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AUGUST 2008 - Click here to read the latest news!

 
 
 
05.06.2006 - Congo's Tragedy: The War the World Forgot (PDF)

 
04.27.2006 - British ally behind world's bloodiest conflict

 
07.01.2005 - D.R. Congo: HRW Report Halts Purchase of Tainted Gold

 
08.01.2001 - Congo's Coltan Rush (B.B.C.)  
     
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Suggested Reading List
The Assasination of Lumumba
by Ludo De Witte

The Challenge of the Congo
Kwame Nkrumah

Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba
by Thomas Kanza

The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild

Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961
Translated by Helen R. Lane. Ed. Jean Van Lierde

The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver

The Congo Cables:The Cold War in Africa--From Eisenhower to Kennedy
by Madeleine Kalb

The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

George Washington Williams: A Biography
by John Hope Franklin

King Leopold's Soliloquy
By Mark Twain

 
 
 
   
 
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