Thursday, January 24, 2008

Democracy Now! report on Congo

This was copied from the Democracy Now! daily news digest yesterday.

* Corporations Reaping Millions as Congo Suffers Deadliest Conflict SinceWorld War II *

A new mortality report from the International Rescue Committee says that asmany as 5.4 million people have died from war-related causes in the Congosince 1998. A staggering 45,000 people continue to die each month, both fromthe conflict and the related humanitarian crisis. Amidst the deadliestconflict since World War II, hundreds of international corporations havereaped enormous profits from extracting and processing Congolese minerals.We speak to Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo and Nita Evele of CongoGlobal Action.

Listen/Watch/Read: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/23/corporations_reaping_millions_as

You can hear DN! three times a day on WPVM 103.5 FM. DN! covers the international and national news the way mainstream media won't.

For more on Congo and how to take action, see our August 23, 2007 post about the V-Day campaign.

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