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Recently, two baby gorillas were able to return to their original place of inhabitance in the Congo. They were forced to move out of their comfortably natural jungle in Virunga National Park due to the violence that continues to ail the morale of the Congolese. The two gorillas, Ndeze and Ndakasi, happen to be the only two baby mountain gorilla to be found exclusively in captivity.

Unfortunately, it is all too common to see that the violence in the Great Lakes Region continues to not only affect people, but also the environment and animals. Ndeze and Ndakasi lived in a house in the Congo city of Goma for two years, before moving back to their comfortable sanctuary.

When will all this fighting end, and when will people realize that the only things that are affected are not politicians, but entire races of people, and animals. We must be able to halt this before an entire species becomes in danger of extinction.

Kazungu Kiwa was in his hut when armed men burst in, put a machete to his throat and pulled down his pants and raped him. For years the deeper parts of eastern Congo have had their own issues to work with, but now there is another growing problem, which is men who are raping other men.

Those who are victims of men on men rape attacks are often ridiculed… Read Full Article

The one word that has been deemed the world’s most difficult word to translate comes straight from the Tshiluba language that is spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. The word that translators are struggling with? “Ilunga”, meaning “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time”.

As simple as the words definition may seem, over… Read Full Article