caravan

Congo-Brazzaville lives in step with the first edition of the book and theater trolley; an authors' initiative that aims in particular to bring books closer to the public in a country with abundant literature. Leaving Brazzaville, this caravan must stay in five sections in southern Congo. The initiator, playwright Mireille Emma Opa Elion, at the head of a writers' collective, sets the goals for the event. “The reason for the book and theater carriage is quite simple; it is our desire to make books and theater beloved…

The last straight line of the peace caravan led for a week in the troubled provinces east of the country by a delegation of national deputies and the Congolese defense minister. Yesterday, the delegation arrived in Kalemie, Tanganyika province, where clashes between pygmy militias and Luba have been repeated. A peace mission of course, but not in a timely manner according to civil society. Visits to the ADF's rebel shrines, briefings at the army headquarters and meetings with local authorities and civil society continue…