Responses to "There is No Congo"


OPINION  —  Congo-Kinshasa:   The Case For The Congo
Friends of the Congo (Washington, DC)
5 May 2009

Foreign Policy magazine recently published a rather disturbing article on the Congo (There is No Congo, posted March 2009, Web Exclusive, http://www.foreignpolicy.com), by Jeffrey Herbst of Miami ... [read more]

NEWS  —  Congo-Kinshasa:   Erasing Congo At the Stroke of a Pen
Fahamu (Oxford)
23 April 2009

Jacques Depelchin is disturbed by There is no Congo, a paper by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, which proposes changing the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and splitting it among its ... [read more]

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Author: Faida
Tue Apr 28 16:46:04 2009

Thank you Jacques for a wonderful rebuttal to the disturbing paper by JH and GM. As a Congolese person, i cannot see my people agreeing to such a proposterous idea. Congolese people are proud of their identity as such. To make things worst is the fact that the authors of the paper do not factor in the will of the Congolese people at all, its as if we don't exist. So the powers that be can just come in and curve up our land and divy it up to the neigbhoring countries and we will stand idly… [Read Full Text]





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