A storm has just broken over Mongbwalu and I’ve been up all night with a stomach bug. Neither breakfast nor the proposed road trip to different parts of Concession 40 are appealing.
Positioning me kindly near the rear window in case of accidents, my CAFOD colleagues and I squash into the back of the 4×4 to [...]
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May 23, 2009
Congo: Gold brings so much devastation
May 19, 2009
Congo: Friends in high places
At 7.15am, over a breakfast of beans, sliced bread and wild honey, the TV in the parish dining room is blaring out KerryGold adverts for dairy products that “make you healthy every day”, interspersed with 15-minute intervals of images of men or women working out in gyms.
Rather encouraging and at odds what we would be [...]
May 15, 2009
Congo: Thousands of miners could face poverty
Inside the headquarters of Caritas Bunia in northern DR Congo, 12 of us sat round an enormous table in the fading light.
Representatives of CAFOD, Caritas, Congolese environmental charity Ocean, local civil society network CdC and academics from South Africa had gathered to discuss the present and future social and environmental impacts of the AngloGold Ashanti [...]
May 13, 2009
Zambia: Aid is a precious lifeline
I spent the end of March and the beginning of April in the UK at the invitation of CAFOD to be part of the Put People First campaign during the G20 Summit in London.
When I arrived back in Zambia I was confronted with the news that things were getting more desperate for people. I found [...]
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