For the first time on record, conflict and violence drove more people to flee within their own countries last year than natural and human-caused disasters, monitors said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/12/world/conflict-internal-displacement-disasters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #middleeast #iran #israel #congo #lebanon #sudan
Conflict created more internal displacement than disasters last year: monitors

With new wars underway this year adding to numerous entrenched conflicts around the world, more displacement driven by violence can be expected.

The Japan Times
Le Congo recourt à l’IA pour valoriser ses langues nationales

A l’heure où l’IA transforme les usages numériques à l’échelle mondiale, le Congo veut éviter que ses langues nationales soient marginalisées dans

Agence Ecofin

Horseshoe theory is bullshit. Liberalism is a disease. Liberal is, in fact, an insult used by fascists and leftists alike, for different reasons. Liberals and fascists are both morally corrupt and spiritually bankrupt. But these are just descriptors.

Fascists insult liberals for weakness, diversity, proceduralism, or insufficient ethnonational purity.

Leftists insult liberals for collaboration with domination while pretending neutrality.

Same word, different indictment. The key distinction is function.

A liberal government may speak of human rights while backing massacres. A fascist movement may discard the human-rights language and embrace domination more openly.

Different rhetoric, sometimes overlapping material outcomes.

I won't speak about theory in a vacuum, but let's talk about historical and material conditions and the imperial boomerang across settler-colonial states, imperial powers, and postcolonial formations shaped by empire. Let's start there.

– an Indonesian in Indonesia
(In case you think the political spectrum translates cleanly to every corner of the world while global power structures heavily rely on exploitative systems of racial and gender hierarchy and extraction, think again, and this is me being polite)

#politics #imperialism #westernimperialism #malesupremacy #authoritarianism #womensrights #muslimvoice #Indonesia #Palestine #Iran #Yemen #WestPapua #Cuba #TimorLeste #Sudan #Congo #Rwanda #SaudiArabia #UAE #Venezuela #Nigeria #Rohingya #Uyghur #China #DPRK #SouthKorea #Japan #ComfortWomen #Kurds #Kurdistan #Syria #Lebanon #Libya #Afghanistan #Iraq

Jupiter & Okwess – Telejayi Feat. Marcelo D2

https://amf.didiermary.fr/jupiter-okwess-telejayi/

From the samba of carioca Rogê to the rap of Brasilian pioneer Marcelo D2, via the horns of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band or the voice of the militant Chilean singer Ana Tijoux, the guitar riffs of French guitarist Yarol Poupaud or soulful voice of American vocalist Maiya Sykes, Jupiter & Okwess have no […]

#Brazil #Congo #Rap

Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin – Boum

https://amf.didiermary.fr/mamans-congo-rrobin-boum/

Les Mamans du Congo came into being in 2018 in Brazzaville as part of a project fusing dance with ancestral Kongo lullabies sung in Lari by the five mamans.

The history of their people and the daily lives of Congolese women are brought together in music for the first time, with rhythms played with forks, plates, baskets, drumsticks and other recycled materials. […]

#Congo

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“Una transizione giusta ed equa è necessaria e deve andare di pari passo con i #diritti dei popoli più vulnerabili.

Al contempo, le industrie dei combustibili fossili e della guerra usano le immagini dello #sfruttamento dei bambini in #Congo come scusa per frenare il cambiamento.”

#coltan #climateCrisis #emergenzaClimatica #Capitalismo #7maggio

https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/societa/dalle-miniere-coltan-congo-palazzi-potere-europeo

Dalle miniere di coltan del Congo ai palazzi del potere europeo: intervista a Francois Kamate | Il Bo Live

François Kamate Kasereka, Premio Alexander Langer 2026, ci racconta il paradosso di una terra ricchissima che muore di povertà.

Il Bo Live
Rumors in the Democratic Republic of Congo claiming a mysterious illness is causing men's genitals to atrophy have resulted in at least 17 killings, a deadly example of the danger posed by health misinformation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/07/world/science-health/congo-health-misinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #congo #africa #misinformation #health #who
Fake rumors, real killings: Inside Congo's deadly health misinformation crisis

At least 17 killings related to rumors claiming a mysterious illness is causing men's genitals to atrophy have been reported the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Japan Times

The new scramble for Congo

Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo

#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk

The new scramble for Congo

Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.

Il mondo non può più ignorare le gravi violenze nella #DRC (Repubblica Democratica del #Congo), dove le #ADF affiliate a #ISIS commettono crimini di guerra e contro l’umanità.

#STOPwars #Peace #humanRights #5maggio

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/drc-rampant-adf-abuses-against-civilians-war-crimes-which-the-world-must-not-continue-to-ignore-new-report/

DRC: Rampant ADF abuses against civilians ‘war crimes which the world must not continue to ignore’ – new report

Civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are suffering a surge in human rights abuses committed by Allied Democratic Forces’ (ADF) fighters that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report. “I’d Never Seen So Many Bodies”: War Crimes by the Allied Democratic Forces in the […]

Amnesty International