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related: virunga national park

The **Democratic Republic of Congo** borders the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in the east; Zambia and Angola to the south; the Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west; and is separated from Tanzania by Lake Tanganyika in the east.

Headlines
[|Surviving the pop apocalypse: A lesson from Congolese pop music] [|Rumba in the jungle - Economist] [|Congo’s giraffes being hunted into extinction — for their meat]

Soundcloud
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-28/surviving-pop-apocalypse-lesson-congolese-pop-music https://soundcloud.com/afropop-worldwide/congolese-rumba-surviving-the-pop-apocalypse

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Remembering Papa Wemba
[] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-wemba-idUSKCN0XV2B2 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/fashion/papa-wembas-influential-fashion-style.html https://theconversation.com/papa-wemba-strong-but-ambiguous-bonds-with-his-motherland-58800 http://allafrica.com/stories/201605070213.html http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/25/475583946/remembering-african-singer-and-style-icon-papa-wemba [|[DOCUMENTAIRE Papa Wemba : Chance Eloko Pamba]] media type="youtube" key="xJqIANmy81o" height="360" width="640"

Recommended Listening
[|Our neighbour, the Nyiragongo volcano] - The active Nyiragongo volcano dominates the city of Goma, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The volcano's smoke haze covers the city, except at dawn, when the clouds lift and a plume of smoke from the crater glows pink.

Twitter
[|@mbeith]

Wikipedia
[|Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo] [|Goma] [|Mount_Nyiragongo] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_River

Virunga National Park
virunga is a 78,00 square kilometer World Heritage Site that lies on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Tourism
http://www.odzala-kokoua.com

Baka
http://www.20shots.com/baka-of-central-africa/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_people_(Congo_and_South_Sudan)

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