Published by: CarlosQC

Uploaded on: 2008-12-03 21:38:51

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Description: The first part of a 30 minutes interview with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo (FOTC) and Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson & Student Coordinator of FOTC.

Congo faces a crisis and conflict that have caused over 6 million people dead in the last decades. Friends of the Congo is a non profit organization based in Washington, DC, working to raise awareness about the crisis and conflict in Congo, in order "to work together to bring about peaceful and lasting change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire."

"The source of the conflict in the Congo is the scramble to control Congos vast natural wealth of gold, diamonds, coltan, copper, cobalt, uranium, tin and many other precious and strategic minerals. Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathaai says these wars when you look at them, they are all about resources and who is going to control them.

A testimony

In the first video Maurice and Kambala talk about Congo and the origins of the conflict, the coltan mineral and its use on cell phones, microwaves, video games and even digital cameras. Also about what can Americans do to help the Congo, and the historical and economical background of this conflict, including mining companies from the US and Europe who also work in Latin America.

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