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‘Congo could be the richest country in the world’
Pastor SIMON NTUMBA talks to the Star about the continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mines clearence underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE graves rest silently in the depths of the jungle, but the trail beside them continues. The footsteps of porters sink into the soil, as sacks of ore sit on their backs. The trail ends at the Bisie tin mine in northern Kivu, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Down the mine shaft, the miners are caked in soil and water. Flashlights are strapped to the side of their heads, elastic bands holding them in place.
It’s dark deep below the earth, but it is places like this where the ingredients of our everyday lives are scratched out, such as cobalt and coltan, under the watchful eyes of rebel militia or renegade soldiers. It is the beginning of a journey that will end in our hands in the form of mobile phones and laptops.
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The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
