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Tintin au Congo

J'avoue, je n'ai pas pu resister. Quand j'ai vu ce fier jeune homme, son pantalon retroussé dans ses superbes chaussettes blanches, de façon à donner un style pantalon de golf, mon esprit mal tourné a tout de suite vu une réincarnation de Tintin. Je lui...

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30 janvier 2006

Rita et les chimpanzés / Rita and the Chimps

Rita has found new friends. She's always been very sociable, but I have to say this time was pretty quick. They are a bit hairy, but she seems fine with it. Yes, her new friends are chimpanzees. Those who know her well will not be surprised: she loves...

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27 janvier 2006

Visages du monde / Faces of the World

Throughout our trips around the world, we've met very different kinds of people. Check our new photo album "Visages du Monde" (on the right hand side, at the bottom), where you'll see indigenous people from Borneo, people recovering from the Tsunami,...

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26 janvier 2006

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25 janvier 2006

Easy Rider

This is a Chukudu. A very special kind of vehicle. It's not a bike, it's not a car, it's not a truck. A Chukudu is just a typical congolese thing, something that characterises well this people's ingenuity. Cars and trucks are scarce in Congo (I should...

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24 janvier 2006

“Nous avons déjà souffert le ZERO DEUX” « We’ve suffered the ZERO TWO already »

There is a woman selling a lot of different pagnes (it’s a 6 yards piece of traditional cloth that congolese women wear) in her shop. I want to inquire on the price, as I may wish to include this to the items we distribute to displaced people. Jeremie:...

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23 janvier 2006

Butembo, an extraordinary city

Butembo is quite a unique city. With 600,000 inhabitants, it is the largest city in North Kivu. But it grew so fast that it's not even on some maps. What characterises this city is its wealth and prosperity. Butembo and this whole region has been mainly...

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21 janvier 2006

Pregnant at 13 / Enceinte à 13 ans

That’s certainly one of the shocking and depressing images of Congo. Even when you know it happens, it’s always a shock when you actually see it. Whilst I visit a health centre in Eringiti, I meet a young girl, 6 months pregnant. She’s 13. She’s not an...

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20 janvier 2006

Eringiti

Waiting for the doctor in an medical emergency tent Monuc and the Congolese Army are conducting military operations in the Grand North Kivu (that’s how one calls the northen part of North Kivu ). People living around fled the fighting and took refuge...

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19 janvier 2006

Tiger Woods vs Georges Foreman

Irumu territory is a big area, on the west of Bunia. Its main city is Komanda that I have decided to visit today. This area is still quite unstable, militia quite active, and some fighting between the Congolese army and Monuc against militia still occuring....

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