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 GREENSBORO -- The running joke about Kambale Musavuli is that he will talk to anybody about his native Congo. And the 27-year-old college student can link anything back to his homeland. Say Musavuli meets a guy who writes poetry. "You could write a poem about the Congo," Musavuli tells the poet. Or maybe he's with friends at a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere -- nothing but trees for miles around.
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What is rarely mentioned is the great global heist of Congo's resources. The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again – and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket. When we glance at the holocaust in Congo, with 5.4 million dead, the clichés of Africa reporting tumble out: this is a "tribal conflict" in "the Heart of Darkness". It isn't. 
On Thursday July 10th 2008 my mom Suzanne, my little sister Ingrid, my little brother Junior, my little sister Barbro and I (Nancy-Josée) decided to go to see Sean Paul, Akon and Wyclef Jean at a concert here in Toronto. My family is known to do things at the very last minute, however we went to this concert with a purpose in mind and that was to bring awareness about the crisis in the D.R Congo. Every month more than 45 000 people die in the DRC.