Good news especially for some of the landlocked countries of east Africa!
Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2026
Kenya & Tanzania’s Rail Race Targets Africa's Trade through Uganda, Rwanda, DRC
Friday, December 05, 2025
President Trump Brokers Peace Deal for Rwanda & Congo
Good news! Blessed are the peacemakers!
Whether the renaming of the United States Institute of Peace to Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace will end peacefully is not yet said. 😊
"President Trump hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday as they signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement aimed at ending a 30-year conflict.
The deal, dubbed the Washington Accords, was signed at the newly renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace and includes a ceasefire, disarmament of militias, refugee returns, and accountability for war crimes. ..."
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
Six armed groups in DR Congo sign peace deal to end violence
Good news! Blessed are the peacemakers! This comes on the heels of the peace agreement between DR Congo and Rwanda!
Friday, June 27, 2025
'The Department Of State Is Really The Department Of Peace': Rubio Touts US Role In DRC-Rwanda Peace
Very recommendable! Blessed are the peacemakers!
Rubio is so refreshing after this dumbos and unaccomplished Antony Blinken or John Kerry!
Trump left in awe by ‘beautiful’ reporter Veras Victoria: ‘Could be the end of my political career’
Very recommendable! POTUS for Nobel Peace Prize. He said she was beautiful on the inside too. 😊
Friday, June 20, 2025
Rwanda and DR Congo agree on draft peace deal to end conflict
Good news! Blessed are the peacemakers!
"Officials from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached a draft agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict.
The breakthrough, mediated by the US and Qatar, provides for the "disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration" of armed groups fighting in eastern DR Congo. ...
The deal could open the way for billions of dollars of western investment in the mineral-rich region, which been plagued by conflict for three decades. ...
The US State Department said technical teams had initialled the draft text on Wednesday, ahead of a formal signing ceremony next Friday to be witnessed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ..."
Sunday, June 08, 2025
DR Congo to create world’s largest tropical forest reserve about the size of France
Good news! It has been named the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor.
"The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France – 540,000km² – situated in the Congo Basin.
The green corridor will follow the course of the Congo River, the world’s second largest after the Amazon, which meanders 4,374km in a long arc through central Africa. ...
The Congo Basin straddles ten countries: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10% of the planet’s known plant species, is right at the centre of the Congo Basin. Its rainforests extend for 1.55 million km², housing 50% of Africa’s tropical forests. ..."
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Trump Vows To Complete $5 Billion Lobito Corridor Rail Project To Ease Minerals Export In Africa
Good news! Recommendable! The Scramble for Africa heats up!
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Uniquely human language capacity found in wild bonobos apes
Amazing stuff! This could be strong hint that animals are much more capable of communication than previously thought!
Wow, this field research was conducted in the long time war torn Democratic Republic of Congo!
"... A bonobo dictionary
In a first step, the researchers applied a method developed by linguists to quantify the meaning of human words. “This allowed us to create a bonobo dictionary of sorts – a complete list of bonobo calls and their meaning,” says Mélissa Berthet, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology of UZH and lead researcher of the study. “This represents an important step towards understanding the communication of other species, as it is the first time that we have determined the meaning of calls across the whole vocal repertoire of an animal.”
Compositionality is not unique to humans
After determining the meaning of single bonobo vocalizations, the researchers then moved on to investigating call combinations, using another approach borrowed from linguistics. “With our approach, we were able to quantify how the meaning of bonobo single calls and call combinations relate to each other,” ... The researchers found numerous call combinations whose meaning was related to the meaning of their single parts, a key hallmark of compositionality. Furthermore, some of the call combinations bore a striking resemblance to the more complex nontrivial compositional structures in human language. “This suggests that the capacity to combine call types in complex ways is not as unique to humans as we once thought,” ..."
"After determining the meaning of single bonobo vocalizations, the researchers then moved on to investigating call combinations, using another approach borrowed from linguistics. “With our approach, we were able to quantify how the meaning of bonobo single calls and call combinations relate to each other,” says Simon Townsend, UZH Professor and senior author of the study. The researchers found numerous call combinations whose meaning was related to the meaning of their single parts, a key hallmark of compositionality. Furthermore, some of the call combinations bore a striking resemblance to the more complex nontrivial compositional structures in human language. “This suggests that the capacity to combine call types in complex ways is not as unique to humans as we once thought,” ... "
From the editor's summary and abstract:
"Editor’s summary
One hallmark of human language is the combination of elements into larger meaningful structures, a pattern referred to as compositionality. Compositionality can be trivial, in which the two parts are added together to give meaning, or nontrivial, in which the meaning in one part modifies the meaning in the other. Recent research has found the presence of trivial compositionality across a number of species, but it has been argued that nontrivial compositionality is unique to humans.
Berthet et al. used a large dataset of bonobo vocalizations in conjunction with a distributional semantics approach and found that not only did they display compositionality, but three of the four types were nontrivial. ...
Abstract
Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum of the meaning of its parts) or nontrivial (one element modifies the meaning of the other element).
Recent studies have suggested that animals lack nontrivial compositionality, representing a key discontinuity with language.
In this work, using methods borrowed from distributional semantics, we investigated compositionality in wild bonobos and found that not only does each call type of their repertoire occur in at least one compositional combination, but three of these compositional combinations also exhibit nontrivial compositionality.
These findings suggest that compositionality is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system, revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought."
Bonobos Combine Calls in Similar Ways to Human Language (original news release) "Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study ... challenges long-held assumptions about what makes human communication unique and suggests that key aspects of language are evolutionary ancient."
Saturday, March 22, 2025
The Rumble in the Jungle 1974. R.I.P. George Foreman!
He survived Muhammad Ali by about 9 years!
The era of iconic heavyweight boxing champions is over now I am afraid!
My father got me up at night to watch this boxing match on TV in Germany! Call that father - son bonding!
"... The event had an attendance of 60,000 people and was one of the most watched televised events at the time. Ali won by knockout in the eighth round. ..."
Foreman learnt a lesson or two
Foreman missed, Ali was surprised
Did any other boxer ever go down like this? The knock out!
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Germany joins UK in cutting aid to Rwanda over DR Congo Conflict.
Recommendable! Apparently, Canada also has just sanctioned Rwanda.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
DR Congo: Children reportedly killed in summary executions by Rwanda-backed M23 fighters
Another example how easily human civilization descends into barbarism!
Children soldiers is one of those most horrible abuses of children!
"In an alert on Tuesday, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, confirmed that three children were killed by Rwanda-backed M23 armed group in Bukavu, the city in South Kivu which fell to the fighters on Sunday.
“Our office has confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city of Bukavu last week. We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons,” said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani. “We call on Rwanda and M23 to ensure that human rights and international humanitarian law are respected.” ..."
Saturday, February 08, 2025
Töten für Handys in der DR Kongo. Wirklich!
Marxistische Ideologie und billige Schelte für sog. reiche Länder! Billige linke Propaganda und Demagogie!
Der Autor Hermann Plopper (72 Jahre) soll angeblich ein Querdenker sein laut Wikipedia! Vielleicht eher ein Träger eines Balkens quer vor dem Kopf!
Wie sieht es mit China und Russland aus? Reiche Länder? Wer bezahlt den Autor für seinen propagandistischen Unsinn?
"Wieder einmal geschehen in der Mitte Afrikas unvorstellbare Gräuel. Es geht um wertvolle Bodenschätze, ohne die es in den reichen Ländern keine Handys, Laptops und Elektroautos gäbe. Damit diese begehrten Artikel schön preiswert bleiben, müssen Millionen Menschen sterben."
Hinweis: Ich habe nicht den ganzen Artikel gelesen.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Monday, November 18, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Rumble in the Jungle anniversary: 50 Years since Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman
I remember having watched it live back then on TV! Nobody beats the Greatest!
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
A struggle between the 46th President and Xi Jinping over a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
More on the scramble for Africa!
"The Biden administration held talks with three firms about purchasing one of the world’s largest non-Chinese cobalt producers, according to people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. wants to loosen Beijing’s global grip on a metal that’s important for the green-energy revolution and used in everything from jet fighters to drones. U.S. officials last year also tried to find Western miners or investors to buy the company, Chemaf, which is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country has poor infrastructure, limited skilled labor, resource nationalism and a reputation for corruption. In June, Chemaf agreed to sell itself to China-backed Norin Mining, but U.S. pressure helped block that deal, people familiar with the transaction said. Plus, Congolese officials were eager to diversify from Chinese partners. Chemaf said that it’s still pursuing a possible Norin sale."
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Christian Malanga, Slain Leader of Failed Congo Coup d'etat 2024, Sold Cars in Utah
Some careers are not straight! The second of three Americans involved in this coup was the son of Christian Malanga.
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
DR Congo's First Female Prime Minister: Judith Tuluka with Palki Sharma
Good news, but she has a tough job ahead! Sometimes it takes a woman to do it! Wishing her good luck!
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