Friends of the Congo

Friends of the Congo (FOTC) is a Pan African solidarity organization raising global consciousness about the challenges and potential of the Congo.

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Your contributions continue to have a substantial impact on children in the east of the Congo. They enable children to be trained by local cobblers to make thousands of pairs of shoes for their peers in the displacement camps. #DRC #FreeCongo https://t.co/wt0bTqTQ4d

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Please share these links and if possible donate to Congo based orgs providing aid and community care to those sick, displaced, and harmed by the genocides.
@congofriends @FocusCongo_DRC
@solidaritecongo @PanziUSA
@docstopgenocide https://t.co/hhIdg5OYj2
https://t.co/O8y2Tp4pTm…

[CENCO RDC officiel @Cenco_officiel]

À Lubumbashi, Mgr Fulgence Muteba, président de la CENCO, s’est entretenu samedi 3 octobre avec une délégation de la Présidence de la République, conduite par le directeur de cabinet du chef de l’État. Accompagné du Rév. Éric Senga (ECC) et de Mgr Donatien Nshole, SG de la CENCO, il a échangé sur le projet de « Dialogue national pour la paix, la cohésion et la refondation de l’État ». L’Église catholique réaffirme son ouverture au dialogue, tout en insistant sur l’inclusivité et la crédibilité du processus.

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

The provincial authority of Haut-Uele ordered the immediate closure of the PK51 mining site and strict restrictions on population movement in order to curb the spread of the Ebola virus.

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[OBED MAYA @ngama_obed]

And each passing brings us face to face with a silent shame: How could we have learned so much from revolutionaries, thinkers, and those who shaped our consciousness, without their legacy profoundly transforming our era?

I search, I reflect, I circle back to this question: what is disfiguring our generation? What have we lost along the way?

For perhaps the most tragic thing is not seeing our icons leave us, but realizing that we have not yet learned to become the guiding lights that tomorrow will need. @azizfall9 @congofriends @asmbaraza @theblacklist @AfricansRising @TrustAfrica

[Amnesty Eastern Africa @AmnestyEARO]

Since the 1990s, more than 6 million people have been killed in the DRC & millions more displaced. Three decades later, they still wait to be heard. They still wait for justice. We revisit some of the most devastating events that have marked the past 30 years.
#6MillionVoices

[Amnesty Eastern Africa @AmnestyEARO]

On Thursday, 1 October in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, @amnesty launched a campaign seeking justice for more than 6 million people killed in conflicts in the country over the last thirty years. #6MillionVoices for #JusticeforCongo

[Jean Claude Katende @JeanClaudekat2]

Le Président Tshisekedi parle ici du dialogue que nous réclamons.
Celui qu'il a initié ne répond pas à ces standards dont lui-même parle ici.

[Clément Bonnerot @cbonnerot]

Thousands flee Congo Ebola-hit camp, stoking concerns about disease spread https://t.co/kr7UXFM0OL

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Ebola is far from being under control in #DRC #Congo

[Julien Harneis @julienmh]

The Ebola Transit Centre in Kigonze camp was staffed by committed Congolese professionals. It is disappointing that it burnt down despite being in a secured area. The dispersal of the 19,000 camp inhabitants also complicates humanitarian response.
https://t.co/OFKL2zRh6M

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Keynote Address by Ron Daise https://t.co/niWC0mBAXs

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Congo-Gullah Land Use Project Panel https://t.co/BvvPfRECbI

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Gullah- Geechee Memory Work Roundtable https://t.co/MTHYPKLgR5

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Centering 1526 Symposium & Mbongi https://t.co/hhxDY1DUk0

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Lumumba!!!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Human rights lawyer @WolfgangKaleck represents the family of Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese prime minister, who was assassinated in a U.S.- and Belgian-backed coup. “This is a story of the West preventing democratically elected leaders in the Global South from distributing the goods of their country to the peoples of the country,” says Kaleck.

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Critical minerals in the D.R. Congo and the Global South

[Oakland Institute @oak_institute]

Critical Minerals Myth Webinar recording now available!

If you missed last week’s deep dive exposing the false climate narrative behind the mineral rush, watch it here & share widely:

@Mittaloak @SIRGECoalition @tallgrassinst @congofriends @IDS_UK @FredMousse

[Friends of the Congo @congofriends]

Ebola in DRC

[Julien Harneis @julienmh]

The Ebola Transit centre in the now emptied Kigonze IDP camp burnt down last night. The staff are a committed team who provided important and excellent services. Deeply disappointing. We are following up with the authorities to ensure that all health facilities are protected.

[Michael Tshibangu @MichaelTshi]

Dialogue

[Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala @StanysBujakera]

Dialogue national : l'ONU plaide pour des facilitateurs acceptés par toutes les parties

Au-delà de la crise sécuritaire et humanitaire, le représentant du secrétaire général de l'ONU a évoqué ce mardi devant le Conseil de sécurité les divergences politiques persistantes en RDC sur la gouvernance et les réformes institutionnelles.

Relevant un large consensus sur la nécessité d'un dialogue national, il a salué l'annonce faite en août par le président Félix Tshisekedi du lancement d'un processus visant à l'organiser. Il a toutefois posé des conditions : un dialogue inclusif, garantissant une large participation, conduit par des facilitateurs bénéficiant de la confiance de l'ensemble des parties prenantes et permettant d'aborder en profondeur les priorités nationales les plus urgentes.

Le diplomate onusien James Swan a exhorté les autorités et l'ensemble des Congolais à préserver l'espace civique, à garantir les libertés fondamentales et à faire preuve de retenue et de tolérance politique.

[Gaëtan-Dauphin Nzowo @GNzowo]

I genuinely don’t know which is worse:

Trump saying, “We ended the war” while Congolese are still being killed and displaced…

or hearing Ebola is “under control” while cases and deaths continue to rise?

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Despite Rwanda repeatedly having signed peace agreements for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its forces and its proxy M23 rebel troops killed more than 300 people in June and July in areas of eastern Congo that they held. https://t.co/62hpNpmnEU