Fahamu (Oxford)
4 June 2009
Returning to DRC for the first time since 1996, Lansana Gberie finds that a little cash comes in handy for dealing with bureaucracy and that it is impossible to get anything done without a 'fixer'. Considering the conflicts in the country's history, Gberie notes that in Congo 'money is always at the centre of the bigger drama of suffering' and that justice - or the interests of victims of mass ...
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This article is quite an eye opener for a westerner like myself. Little was written about he current President, Joseph Kabila, but my interest lies with both the President of the Congo-Kinshasha and his neighbor, Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of Congo-Brazzaville. Which of these two Presidents would most likely have taken delivery of a Corporate Jet for his personal use, say in late May, 2009. I ask for strictly personal reasons as I am trying to track down a Pilot job with that aircraft but haven't been able to trace to which country the Dassault Falcon has been flown. Sull727