By John Zyombo – Robert Shamamba journalist and director of Radio Mitumba broadcasting from the City of Uvira in South Kivu province has been arrested since December 16, 2010 by the intelligence service ANR and kept in the jail until now. According to ANR, the author of this arrest, is accused of having criticized the speech of President Joseph Kabila before the Congress of December 8, 2010 in Kinshasa during a debate program “outspoken”. For now he remains under arrest, the co-debaters of days are also being prosecuted and are now living in hiding including another journalist Dominique Kalonzo, Correspondent... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, December 23rd 2010 |
By: Frides Laméris, Netherlands – While much suffering is going on in Congo due to a recent outbreak of polio, few people realize that this suffering of the many polio victims, may be partly due to the vaccination campaign itself. Congo is a country which has an unfortunate history with this disease and polio vaccination campaigns. Already in the late fifties of the previous century the Polish-American scientist Hillary Koprowski, rivaling with Jonas Salk and Bruce Sabin in developing an effective polio vaccine, invented by mistake a polio vaccine, that caused some hundred thousands of Congolese people to become sick and/or... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, December 14th 2010 |
BRAZZAVILLE, 10 December 2010 (IRIN) – The number of people killed by an outbreak of wild polio virus in the Republic of Congo has reached 200, officials said, as the second of three rounds of mass vaccination began. “The first phase was a great success with a coverage rate of 105 percent. This rate reflects the fact that we identified 4,135,000 people and ultimately 4,300,000 people were immunized,” said the Minister of Health and Population, Georges Moyen. “Since 2 December, the country has more reported cases of deaths from acute flaccid paralysis,” said Moyen, stating that the current balance is... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, December 11th 2010 |
By John Zyombo – At the time of decentralization in the Democratic Republic of Congo higher taxation in the province of Southern Kivu has become a spirited major handicap to economic recovery after a period of recession caused by repeated wars and the economy in response to difficult economic planning that meets not the country’s economic problems. Businessmen in the country continue to disapprove the fees structure of the province that is the advantage of the authorities Provincial and to the detriment of those who are totally asphyxiated and prefer to clear their goods in the province neighbouring North Kivu... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, December 9th 2010 |
By John Zyombo – The DRC is among the countries that have managed to stabilize the spread of infection. This stabilization remains fragile due to the reduced funding for some partners in the fight against HIV. In Eastern countries, the virus is spreading rapidly in rural areas considered high risk area with 3.3% prevalence. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by the national fight against HIV / AIDS PNLS with the support of UNAIDS in 2009. According to Dr. Jean Paul NSIBULA Bisimwa, NACP Coordinator who presented the epidemiological situation, the rate of infection has stabilized considerably in city... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, December 1st 2010 |
