stories from congo
inside - The death of my grand mother and the birth of my daughter.
outside - The civil war in 1992 after presidential vote which made more
than 1000 deaths and put the country in the World civil war death record book.
future - The next presidential election in july 97 will decide how life
will be for the next 5 years, and will
show if the congolese have understood what democracy means and its
implications. If the congolese
have understood its means we will have 5 years of peace and evolution and
maybe the end of our fears against presidential election.
We hope that the CFA (local currency) will not be devaluated for the next 10
years even if we
know that it will be done soon. We can imagine how our country will be
abandoned when the oil and minerals
will finish and we must use the actual benefit to create new opportunities
otherwise our country will die.
We hope that someone will find the serum against aids because our country is
really infected (more than 25 %).
We think that for our country the next 100 years are the most important years
of our nations
because of new coming technology that we must face, european unification and
unique currency,
"Mondialisation" that we can't face because our industry are very weak.
Hope we answer to your questions as you expected.
Nothing is easier to say than truth.
People of CONGO.
BRAHIM FRANCK JOSEPH, Born in 4 of february 1972, Computer scientist.
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Pointe Noire, CONGO - Friday, February 21, 1997 at 09:29:27 (GMT)
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