#congoisbleeding

Marcelat Sakobi of Democratic Republic of Congo, at the end of the women’s round of 32 boxing match against Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova, made a strong gesture to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in the DR Congo by placing her hand in front of her mouth and pointing two fingers at her temple.

Resources for Congo:

Friends of Congo

Panzi Foundation

War Child

CammeDRCongo

Genocide Watch

A guide to the decades-long conflict in DR Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses.

An explanation thread from 2019.

Books on Congo.

Films for peace in the DRC.

Horrific: A two-deck boat carrying passengers on Thursday tilts sideways before capsizing in calm waters on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC🇨🇩 killing at least 50 people.

The boat, overloaded with passengers, sank while trying to dock just meters away from the port of Kituku.

It was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma, in North Kivu province.

Several survivors say that they saw nearly 200 people on board.

Source: @AP, @Reuters. 🇨🇩 #RDC

*@𝑴𝒈* 💕🕊️

*#A҉F҉R҉I҉C҉A҉_U҉N҉I҉T҉E҉D҉* 🌍

*𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓸𝓯𝓪𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪.𝓸𝓻𝓰*

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🇨🇩Congo #CongolsBleeding #FreeCongo

🇿🇲 Zambia #EndPoliceBrutalityInZambia

🇳🇦Namibia #ShutItAllDown

🇿🇦South Africa #AmINext

🇨🇲Cameroon #AnglophoneCrisis

🇨🇮Ivory Coast + 🇬🇭Ghana #ChildTrafficking

🇪🇹 Ethiopia #OromoProtests #Wolaita

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe #ZimbabweanLivesMatter

🇺🇸 United States + 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeFor #HandsUpDontShoot #NoJusticeNoPeace

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Black people have experienced so much pain and violence as a collective worldwide. We’re all exhausted, in pain and continuously grieving.

DRCongo is bleeding.

« The basic cause of most of the trouble in the Congo right now is the intervention of outsiders—the fighting that is going on over the mineral wealth of the Congo and over the strategic position that the Congo represents on the African continent. And in order to justify it, they are doing it at the expense of the Congolese, by trying to make it appear that the people are savages. And I think, as one of the gentlemen mentioned earlier, if there are savages in the Congo then there are worse savages in Mississippi, Alabama, and New York City, and probably some in Washington, D.C., too.