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The First African World War: Main Menu, Pygmy Meat

After finding Livingstone in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley continued his exploration of the Congo basin and tried to convince the British government to turn Congo into a British colony. This, however, proved not interested, and Belgian king was eventually faster. Leopold II turned the river's banks into a huge grav...

15 September 2007
13:36 GMT

The River of Blood, Pain, Gold, Diamonds and Coltan

Congo is the fifth longest river in the world, measuring almost 5,000 km (3,000 mi) and the second in debit following Amazon: 42,450 cubic meters of water/second. From 1971, the river is known as Zaire and the indigenous call it "the river that swells all the other rivers". The volume of water dug at the river's...

1 September 2007
10:46 GMT




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