These are black people... so no serious help is coming... at the same time, Anthony Blinken is in Kyiv giving away 1 billion dollars.. See the difference...
The DRC sits on top of the worlds largest cobalt reserves. They produce 80% of the cobalt used in smart phones tablets computers and electric cars. It’s obscene that they are starving. The Chinese are the buyers of that cobalt at bargain basement prices. They have an absolute obligation to help those people considering the profits they rip out of that country. There is a absolutely no reason a country this riches in resources should be this desperate.
Why is it the Chinese fault or problem? DRC does it to themselves and there own people. There not "obligated to help" just because there purchasing a product the DRC is selling. They are not nor is the rest of the world making them oppress there own people. And do what a regime change? Like what Obama did to Libya and bc of that now you can buy people for 500 USD in the streets. They need to solve there own problems.
They've been exploited by everyone including the U.S. Isn't it interesting how America is all about making sure democracy is being held in so many countries, but largely ignore what is happening until they want to exploit the resources Africa has. It's sickening.
The Chinese? The U.S. is the biggest culprit there. They were there long before the Chinese. It is the U.S. that keeps the war going in the Congo so they can continue to steal the resources.
The pillagers of Congo’s resource are responsible for the conflicts. The enablers of the conflicts, arm the groups and cause the mayhem as they extract the natural resources that serves their interests.
They oppress themselves always have, another group will rise up take over and do the same thing. Nothing new. Not until they learn to work together and not harm there neighbors by taking there resources for there own betterment, like every other culture has done this will continue, there just late to the process.
Yep it's someone else's fault. The Congolese have no agency. Corporations are just rolling into town with heavy equipment and stealing from the helpless Congolese government.
Solve it how? The DRC is oppressing there own people by the current occupying force. Another will rise up and take over and do the same thing. Has been going on since at least the 13th century with lose documentation but probably forever. No amount of money can stop that problem, it will just go to the current gov, no foreign army can either, has to be done by there own people deciding to work together not against each other. It's no one's fault but there own. A company buying a product from the DRC does not automatically make all problems within that country There problem.
@@howardrobinson4938 Mocking me for stating the truth, as I see it, is childish. Are Amy, Nermeen and the DN team responsible for world events? It’s a news channel. Again, my separate comment regarding famine, starvation, SA’s, etc is listed, Howie.
@@KohalaLover No...I only saw the comment that I commented on. "Good morning. In breaking news, 7 people dead in head on collision." No...the newscaster should not start the broadcast with "Good morning". In other tragic news...and that does it for us. Good evening and Love and Light to all!
IT’S SUCH A SHAME CAUSE AFRICA IS SO VERY RICH IN RESOURCES!! BETWEEN SELLING RESOURCES TO OTHER COUNTRIES N GREED WITHIN AFRICA’S LEADERS… 😢AND OUTLAW FACTIONS 💔🍃🌻
All these aid charities need to focus thier money on forcing thier governments to stop exploiting Africas resources. Then we wont need thier aid anymore
@@RJL612you know absolutely nothing, the western world is inhumane to black skin and the advocate and enable the poverty In Africa, soon the world will see
@@RJL612 💯% Blaming everyone else except for the ones responsible, there own gov the DRC. Just because companies are buying a product the DRC is selling(cobalt) doesn't mean everyone else is responsible for the DRCs actions to there own people. Story as old as time in this region. Another regime will take down this one and will do the same thing over and over. Until they learn like the rest of the world did, you have to get along with each other and work together to survive not steal from your neighbors for your own benefit. But the rest of the world is responsible to fix all there issues?
Instead of, "...mineral extraction enriches the few" why not Name The Few? it is glaringly obvious that cobalt, diamonds and other rare minerals and metals are used in specific consumer technologies and jewelry refined outside of Congo
It goes to people like you, how do you think you got your phone tv car or any other electronics, are you willing to give everything up so the DRC doesnt get more funds? How dedicated are you really? It's not like these companies have any say in what goes on in the DRC they just purchase a product the DRC is selling. Are you responsible for child labor laws in China bc you buy shoes from them?
No one's coming into a country and just taking resources. They have a military. The government gets paid, what they do with the money afterwards and how they manage it, is on them and them only.
Them oppressing there own people are to blame no one else. Foreign company's purchasing a product from the DRC does not translate to it being the company's fault there gov is oppressing them. That's retarded.
@@joshuaklein2859 It would probably pain the picture even worse than the guest does to be honest. Not because it would be more bombastic, but because it would be more personal. What is going on in DRC is absolutely Europes, the US and all the countries that are relying on its exploitation.
@@editing5157No one is forcing the DRC to oppress its own people. It's no one else's problem, just because China for example is purchasing a product the DRC is selling doesn't mean all issues within the DRC becomes China's problem that's ridiculous.
If by 'assistance' you mean Americans would roll up, plop heavy ordinance in the hands of the natives and point them at their 'enemies' and tell them to go die for the white man, then yea, plenty of assistance to be had. The U.S. is last in humanitarian efforts but FIRST in warcrimes. US number one baybeee.
I guess you didn’t hear that the US gives half the funding for helping the DRC. They will cut twenty percent but what about China, filthy rich Saudi Arabia, India, Asia and others?
Well if they weren’t black because the last thing these western governments and corporations want are for these resource rich countries and their citizens to become rich and develop their countries to be sovereign, these are the same African nations that the west built their riches from the backs of these nations, 85 of the riches people in the world have the same accumulated wealth of 3.5 billion people in the world, the western governments love this! The aid they give is Pennie’s compared to what they extract and plunder
Thankyou so much Amy for bringing up the cobalt issue. Most so called humanitarians choose to ignore exploitation and opt to preach a poverty narrative divorced from neocolonial exploitation. Shameful really.
This is horrific. It's a shame that we have no problem using the minerals in the Congo but do the bare minimum to help the people who live in the Congo.
We pray the violence, war, wickedness & hunger be STOPPED in Jesus' name. We also ask that abundant help arrive from all over the world, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Twenty five million people facing disease, sexual violence, famine, and at risk of starvation in the DRC. No water. As an American, I’m heartbroken. The US giving half of the funding. Yes, we give tons of money to Ukraine, which I support. Where is India, Europe, Asia and the wealthy Middle East? Why aren’t they stepping up with funding?
The U.S. are only providing aid because they are providing the weapons and funding the armed groups on all sides, they’re playing angels when the are truly demons, the west and their corporations are the beneficiaries of these atrocities, they want very little news coverage of this but the west are the enablers, this is a centuries long attack on black skin and the story is always the Africans are doing this to themselves, the truth is it’s the west grip on Africa and it’s policies and it’s involvement in the politics with its false intervention of democracy, they know these Africans are gods children and the true Israelites in the Bible, but these western demons use African lives to dispose of to hold on to their power and greed, but not for long, they will feel the wrath of Yahweh
Why is it any of there problems? We're not responsible for other people's actions. No one outside the DRC is oppressing them, the current occupying force is, and that force rose up and took down the previous one and did the same thing on and on. No amount of money poured into these countries will stop that it will just fund its continuance, only thing that will is themselves decideding just like every other continent has to stop killing each other and in order to survive you have to work together including with your neighbor, not steal everything for your own benefit. They haven't yet and that's not the rest of the world's problem.
Most people are ignorant about the situation france, Belgium, USA, UK depend on DRC their is no tesla without DRC its a shame this guys don't contribute anything.
If traditional slavet countries like the United States and France are going to continue exploitation of Africa, we can expect the people to be hungry and piwerless. The mainstream media is an integral part of problems by selwctively ignoring. However, those government agencies know about these atrocities, the UnitedNstions knows and the support the continued exploitation of these regions. The problem is not " hunger". The problem is exploitation of people that do not have the infrastructure and weapons to defend themselves.
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur
Parents...when you drop off your children to school next close ypur eyes and image those voices trapped mining. Next time you open your laptops remember who collected the materials. I foster children and can not imagine my 7 year old mining for survival
The DRG should do the honourable thing like Niger, Burkina Faso, Gabon etc, break the shackles of the colonial west, they have bled you dry, take hold of the reins and run your own nation through justice and your resources
Child labor and dangerous worker conditions for the Cobalt mines needed for electric cars. Many of the mines owned by China. We should not be having a blind eye to harsh treatment of even children workers in the name of green batteries for green cars. China has serious problems dealing fairly with workers. The D.R.C. supplies 73% of the world's cobalt. But it goes almost exclusively to China, which has locked down both mining and refining of the metal in the country. Where is China in this crisis. Did Democrasy Now redact China's role in this?
Africa is a big continent. Can you expect only one country to solve all its problems? Do you use a smartphone or tablet? What about all the western brands selling products made of these materials? At least accept your own share of responsibility before laying all the blame on another country.
He's says no where in the world.....WHAT ABOUT HAITI ???? FOR MANY YEARS THEY'VE BEEN NIGLECTED ......DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHATS HAS HAPPENED AND IS STILL ONGOING??
I agree with pretty much all his sentiments. I will say though that we have the kind of civilisation in Europe and the US we do precisely from robbing and raping countries like Congo. This and the exploitation and destruction of nature has driven the civilisation as we have it. We need to fundamentally transform the nature of civilisation. First, we need to stop our companies robbing these countries. We can do that. Unfortunately democracy is weak at the moment and much of the political system is coopted by these corpirates.
It's no one's fault but there own. US and Europe is not robbing them. Company's are purchasing a product the DRC is selling, DRC oppressing there own people and not using those sold resources for there betterment is not the problem of other countries. That's like saying it's your fault China has a child labor problem bc you buy shoes and bc you do your responsible for there laws and oppressing there own people. YOU are, no one else especially not the Chinese gov. That's retarded of course, these company's and foreign gov have zero say in what DRC does its not there country.
We need to feed the hunger, that's what we need to do! There r too mny homeless, hungry brothers and sisters that need r help! So true the saying....the rich get richer and the poor get poorer because the poor helps the poor!
Okay so how can regular people, local church groups, and life groups help. The government doesn’t care about these countries. Give access to the people who want to help… 👋🏽
The guest talks about the European countries not providing aid. He also talks about Asia not providing aid. Okay, I understand where he is coming from but what about the so called *African Union?* They need to step up and clean up their own backyard and stop allowing foreigners to come to their home, extract their resources while exploiting the ppl, stop allowing these foreigners to cause political unrest, and stop looking for outsiders to fix the problem. The African Union wants to be looked at as "leaders" of the continent that are in unison with each other, then they have to do the work. They need to stop up. Shame on them for allowing their continent to be pillaged and gRaped by outsiders and shame on the foreign entities that have been getting away with this for decades, if not centuries.
When 25 million people die they can continue to take their resources. Know countries cares about black Africans. Just take take take . Every countries despise us.😡😡🥲😭they’re being paid to kill each other’s
👆 Agreed. DRC is oppressing there OWN people. It's not China or anyone else going into DRC and taking resources. There purchasing a product the DRC is selling. Does not make all issues within DRC automatically there problem.
@@RJL612 they are going over there extorting those ppl to give over those resources in exchange for trinkets. And yes, they do deploy paramilitary ppl in the form of NGOs to "take" from the continent.
2 Esdras 16:22-40 [22]For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy. [23]And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down. [24]There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it [25]The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them? [26]The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men: [27]So that one man shall desire to see another, and to hear his voice. [28]For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which shall hide themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks. [29]As in an orchard of Olives upon every tree there are left three or four olives; [30]Or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard: [31]Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword. [32]And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough. [33]The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers. [34]In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine. [35]Hear now these things and understand them, ye servants of the Lord. [36]Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the gods of whom the Lord spake. [37]Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack. [38]As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment: [39]Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on every side. [40]O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
Isnt the Congo where we get our stuff for cell phone/computer creation 😳?....that mineral comes from the Congo!!!! 😢 this is absolutely deplorable , 😡. How can the developed world be Okay with watching the inhabitants of the Congo suffer in this way? 😞
You should study the Correlation between eruptions at Mt. Pinatubo June 1991, Montserrat June 1997, Popocatepeti, Masaya and Santiaguito June 2016 and Hunga Tonga Jan 2022 with California record flood events 1991-1992, 1997-1998, 2016-2017 and 2022-2023. People try to blame El Nino, dual action with man made input doesn't make sense provided other years are drought years. Furthermore Study El Chichónal March-April 1982 the biggest eruption in Mexico History 10 times Greater than Mt. Saint Hellens in Washington and California floods of 1982-1983. The largest Volcanoes seem to explode during Hot weather then the result is Rain and cooling the earth after hence the years 536, 540, 1815 and 1886, also 1906 Mt Vesuvias exploded on two sides of the mountain, 1906-1907 Sacramento river in California floods 20 miles wide.
People should study the Correlation between eruptions at Mt. Pinatubo June 1991, Montserrat June 1997, Popocatepeti, Masaya and Santiaguito June 2016 and Hunga Tonga Dec 2021 with California record flood events 1991-1992, 1997-1998, 2016-2017 and 2022-2023. People try to blame El Nino, dual action with man made input doesn't make sense provided other years are drought years. Furthermore Study El Chichónal March-April 1982 the biggest eruption in Mexico History 10 times Greater than Mt. Saint Hellens in Washington and California floods of 1982-1983. The largest Volcanoes seem to explode during Hot weather then the result is Rain and cooling the earth after hence the years 536, 540, 1815 and 1886
ya know....this is a problem always seen. Look..my work has been always for women...but hey...everyone of these stories make the men out to be..not important. WOMEN are emphasized as if that makes it a worse crisis. So...if women weren't neglected in this crisis it would then be ok? NO.
When America need to become a superpower, they need the nuclear bomb. The material came from DRC went good I need rubber. The rubber came from DRC. When Apple need material to make their iPhone the material came from DRC. Now you are telling me hunger is in the DRC creator of the universe. We need your help.
God blesd this man for being the voice for these children starving. They can take take take but not help pieces of shitz companies. How are they starving when they are the riches? Technically speaking.
The cause of the problem in that part of the world is called Paul kagame, the world should wake up and see the truth of what happening in East Africa, kagame always play the victim, but he is the biggest trait to peace and security .
Maybe the world is tired of nations that exploit their own people, promote violence, blame decades old colonialism for their present corruption etc.! Humanitarian aid should come from those who are benefiting directly from the labor of the people. The assistance needs to be DIRECT to the people most in need. If given to the government , guarantee corruption will profit and the people will still starve.
All this has been going for years nd years, Congolese people absconded nd are living all over the world running away from their country just to live. Many are hv died are dieing never able to set their eyes in their Beloved country Congo. I wish I could wavecthe magic wand
who is the head of state of the DRC? he needs to be hold accountable for the slaughter of his people, I think the DRC needs a military leader like Burkina faso soon as possible to remove the M23 guys once an for all and close the border with all country till change made to better that country or else its remain the same think about it , who is going Rais up to the act and when too long may too late
Can anyone name another ethnicity other than Brown faced people of African descent that suffers more persecution, prosecution, rape, discrimination and economic deprivation and hunger in the 10s of millions ?
Help the DR of Congo people who need food and water and medicines and other materials We pray Congo people with get all their requirements Sarath from Sri Lanka
the Netherlands are the root cause of their situations, why don't they take care this issue in the way of reparatons to Congo? they apologised, now it's time for actions
Africa frequently makes me sad. Africa has so much potential, such great resources, but between tribal groups, religion, cruelty, and culture differences - they keep tearing themselves apart. It seem like Africa could have been a world power, but they keep themselves poor and behind the rest of the world. It's such a hugh problem, I don't know how this will ever evolve into better lives for the African people.
Hmmm. I’d imagine if other countries didn’t exploit them of their resources by moving people off tribal lands with fake agreements. You know the ones where they promise to pay the communities they are forcing off their lands/give residuals and then never do. Wolves prey on these countries . I can’t imagine what a sheltered life you lead to make such an off base comment. This stuff is and has been well documented
You say “tearing themselves apart” and “keeping themselves poor” do you not understand this is colonialism and western interference that keeps this happening, the west is responsible and these demons that invoke this human atrocity are sitting in Europe and the United States, they choose to dispose of blacks in every way they can it has been a world wide campaign for centuries, but these same blacks are gods children, the true Israelites of the Hebrew Bible and soon the world will see the truth and fell the wrath of Yahweh, all glory to the most high who will restore Africa!
If you study the history of the last 50 years or so in Africa you will understand it's not something they have control over. Western powers may have retreated from the continent but their interests are what's keeping these countries in perpetual chaos. Dictators have remained in power for decades and weapons keep reaching rebel groups specifically because countries like France, UK, and the US want cheap access to minerals and other commodities.
We are governed by Collective Antipathy. We aspire to humanitarian principles yet never quite make it. Maybe the reason why is because we sponsor tin-pot dictators in Rwanda and Uganda who in turn are sponsoring over 150 rebel groups in the Congo. These rebel groups are responsible for much of the misery in the Congo. By the way, the economy in the Congo is not a 'Black economy,' it's definitely a 'White economy' imposed on Black people.
These are black people... so no serious help is coming... at the same time, Anthony Blinken is in Kyiv giving away 1 billion dollars..
See the difference...
Too true!
The DRC sits on top of the worlds largest cobalt reserves. They produce 80% of the cobalt used in smart phones tablets computers and electric cars. It’s obscene that they are starving. The Chinese are the buyers of that cobalt at bargain basement prices. They have an absolute obligation to help those people considering the profits they rip out of that country. There is a absolutely no reason a country this riches in resources should be this desperate.
Why is it the Chinese fault or problem? DRC does it to themselves and there own people. There not "obligated to help" just because there purchasing a product the DRC is selling. They are not nor is the rest of the world making them oppress there own people. And do what a regime change? Like what Obama did to Libya and bc of that now you can buy people for 500 USD in the streets. They need to solve there own problems.
The U.S corporates are very much involved as well. Profiteering at any cost is their mandate globally and always has been.
They've been exploited by everyone including the U.S. Isn't it interesting how America is all about making sure democracy is being held in so many countries, but largely ignore what is happening until they want to exploit the resources Africa has. It's sickening.
2+2=blame China. U$ was there for much much longer.
The Chinese? The U.S. is the biggest culprit there. They were there long before the Chinese. It is the U.S. that keeps the war going in the Congo so they can continue to steal the resources.
King Leopold’s ghost still haunts this land
Get over it.
And Mobutu
I just knew all of this was Belgium's fault!
The pillagers of Congo’s resource are responsible for the conflicts. The enablers of the conflicts, arm the groups and cause the mayhem as they extract the natural resources that serves their interests.
The greedy rich and their corporations
They oppress themselves always have, another group will rise up take over and do the same thing. Nothing new. Not until they learn to work together and not harm there neighbors by taking there resources for there own betterment, like every other culture has done this will continue, there just late to the process.
If you have a healthy society then you would have to pay for what it is worth, labour and minerals. This chaos is created
Yep it's someone else's fault. The Congolese have no agency. Corporations are just rolling into town with heavy equipment and stealing from the helpless Congolese government.
We the users of these precious metals are also responsible, as strong as the impulse to blame the other may be.
One multi-billionaire can solve this problem, they just don't want to. That's where our humanity is. Wrapped up in mental illness (greed)
Solve it how? The DRC is oppressing there own people by the current occupying force. Another will rise up and take over and do the same thing. Has been going on since at least the 13th century with lose documentation but probably forever. No amount of money can stop that problem, it will just go to the current gov, no foreign army can either, has to be done by there own people deciding to work together not against each other. It's no one's fault but there own. A company buying a product from the DRC does not automatically make all problems within that country There problem.
You are correct. Some seed money And a plotof farm land. The way it was before the monoplolies of oligarchs.
Look at it this way...Where are they getting the guns? Follow what countries are giving these men the guns.
I love this program. It covers world problems that no one else covers.
And we are talking about one of the richest country on earth in terms of natural resources..it’s incredible
Mexico has identical resources to the US. Look at the difference. Sometimes it's just the culture of the people.
Thank you to Amy, Nermeen, and the entire DN community. You speak the truth and I appreciate it. Love and light from California. ✨
25 million people starving....and lots of Love and Light to you too!!
@@howardrobinson4938 Guess you glossed over my separate comment below where I addressed that subject.
@@howardrobinson4938 Mocking me for stating the truth, as I see it, is childish. Are Amy, Nermeen and the DN team responsible for world events? It’s a news channel. Again, my separate comment regarding famine, starvation, SA’s, etc is listed, Howie.
@@KohalaLover No...I only saw the comment that I commented on. "Good morning. In breaking news, 7 people dead in head on collision." No...the newscaster should not start the broadcast with "Good morning". In other tragic news...and that does it for us. Good evening and Love and Light to all!
IT’S SUCH A SHAME CAUSE AFRICA IS SO VERY RICH IN RESOURCES!! BETWEEN SELLING RESOURCES TO OTHER COUNTRIES N GREED WITHIN AFRICA’S LEADERS… 😢AND OUTLAW FACTIONS 💔🍃🌻
Plus several centuries of theft.....
Selling?!?! ...Africa's resources are mostly stolen by the West.
It’s the west fault
And France control
All different county need to get out of African. I listen to African news France stop food supply cause niger want France out
It's time to eat the rich.
Horrendous
Well asked Emmy. The hunger in DRC is linked with the extraction of cobalt. But Jan Egeland seems blind to that.
I am so relieved to know that Jehovah God sees everything and soon bring justice to all the earth. We know how he hates wickedness.
Gods not doing shit, he put you here so that you will. He can help when you do tho.
All these aid charities need to focus thier money on forcing thier governments to stop exploiting Africas resources. Then we wont need thier aid anymore
Blame the Congo government, no one else is responsible for how they govern their nation. Stop placing blame on some nefarious outside force.
Exactly, they fund these atrocities
@@RJL612you know absolutely nothing, the western world is inhumane to black skin and the advocate and enable the poverty In Africa, soon the world will see
@@RJL612 💯% Blaming everyone else except for the ones responsible, there own gov the DRC. Just because companies are buying a product the DRC is selling(cobalt) doesn't mean everyone else is responsible for the DRCs actions to there own people. Story as old as time in this region. Another regime will take down this one and will do the same thing over and over. Until they learn like the rest of the world did, you have to get along with each other and work together to survive not steal from your neighbors for your own benefit. But the rest of the world is responsible to fix all there issues?
Instead of, "...mineral extraction enriches the few" why not Name The Few? it is glaringly obvious that cobalt, diamonds and other rare minerals and metals are used in specific consumer technologies and jewelry refined outside of Congo
Names, we need names please.
It goes to people like you, how do you think you got your phone tv car or any other electronics, are you willing to give everything up so the DRC doesnt get more funds? How dedicated are you really? It's not like these companies have any say in what goes on in the DRC they just purchase a product the DRC is selling. Are you responsible for child labor laws in China bc you buy shoes from them?
THE PEOPLE TAKING THEIR RESOURCES ARE THE BLAME...."THE BLACK VETERAN FOR REAL JUSTICE "...B1.
No one's coming into a country and just taking resources. They have a military. The government gets paid, what they do with the money afterwards and how they manage it, is on them and them only.
Them oppressing there own people are to blame no one else. Foreign company's purchasing a product from the DRC does not translate to it being the company's fault there gov is oppressing them. That's retarded.
King Leopold’s ghost still haunts this land. Amy Goodman!.
Why dont you get some people in the Congo who are from the Conga commenting on what is going on there?
Answer: Easy... like all the other multinational media outlets...1st hand accounts would be too transparent.
@@joshuaklein2859 It would probably pain the picture even worse than the guest does to be honest. Not because it would be more bombastic, but because it would be more personal. What is going on in DRC is absolutely Europes, the US and all the countries that are relying on its exploitation.
@@editing5157No one is forcing the DRC to oppress its own people. It's no one else's problem, just because China for example is purchasing a product the DRC is selling doesn't mean all issues within the DRC becomes China's problem that's ridiculous.
Exploitation is definitely a huge part of the problem
There would be billions of U.S. dollars in assistance if the DRC shared borders with Russia or China.
No one wants that kind of "assistance."
If by 'assistance' you mean Americans would roll up, plop heavy ordinance in the hands of the natives and point them at their 'enemies' and tell them to go die for the white man, then yea, plenty of assistance to be had. The U.S. is last in humanitarian efforts but FIRST in warcrimes. US number one baybeee.
Or they were white people
I guess you didn’t hear that the US gives half the funding for helping the DRC. They will cut twenty percent but what about China, filthy rich Saudi Arabia, India, Asia and others?
Well if they weren’t black because the last thing these western governments and corporations want are for these resource rich countries and their citizens to become rich and develop their countries to be sovereign, these are the same African nations that the west built their riches from the backs of these nations, 85 of the riches people in the world have the same accumulated wealth of 3.5 billion people in the world, the western governments love this! The aid they give is Pennie’s compared to what they extract and plunder
Thankyou so much Amy for bringing up the cobalt issue. Most so called humanitarians choose to ignore exploitation and opt to preach a poverty narrative divorced from neocolonial exploitation. Shameful really.
Indeed "a humanitarian is always a hypocrite"
This is horrific. It's a shame that we have no problem using the minerals in the Congo but do the bare minimum to help the people who live in the Congo.
We pray the violence, war, wickedness & hunger be STOPPED in Jesus' name.
We also ask that abundant help arrive from all over the world, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Africa does not need aid. they need a fair share of their resources.
Twenty five million people facing disease, sexual violence, famine, and at risk of starvation in the DRC. No water. As an American, I’m heartbroken. The US giving half of the funding. Yes, we give tons of money to Ukraine, which I support. Where is India, Europe, Asia and the wealthy Middle East? Why aren’t they stepping up with funding?
The U.S. are only providing aid because they are providing the weapons and funding the armed groups on all sides, they’re playing angels when the are truly demons, the west and their corporations are the beneficiaries of these atrocities, they want very little news coverage of this but the west are the enablers, this is a centuries long attack on black skin and the story is always the Africans are doing this to themselves, the truth is it’s the west grip on Africa and it’s policies and it’s involvement in the politics with its false intervention of democracy, they know these Africans are gods children and the true Israelites in the Bible, but these western demons use African lives to dispose of to hold on to their power and greed, but not for long, they will feel the wrath of Yahweh
Why is it any of there problems? We're not responsible for other people's actions. No one outside the DRC is oppressing them, the current occupying force is, and that force rose up and took down the previous one and did the same thing on and on. No amount of money poured into these countries will stop that it will just fund its continuance, only thing that will is themselves decideding just like every other continent has to stop killing each other and in order to survive you have to work together including with your neighbor, not steal everything for your own benefit. They haven't yet and that's not the rest of the world's problem.
If the U.S stops exploiting Africa - there wouldn't be any need for feeding Africa.
Most people are ignorant about the situation france, Belgium, USA, UK depend on DRC their is no tesla without DRC its a shame this guys don't contribute anything.
If traditional slavet countries like the United States and France are going to continue exploitation of Africa, we can expect the people to be hungry and piwerless. The mainstream media is an integral part of problems by selwctively ignoring. However, those government agencies know about these atrocities, the UnitedNstions knows and the support the continued exploitation of these regions. The problem is not " hunger". The problem is exploitation of people that do not have the infrastructure and weapons to defend themselves.
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur
Parents...when you drop off your children to school next close ypur eyes and image those voices trapped mining. Next time you open your laptops remember who collected the materials. I foster children and can not imagine my 7 year old mining for survival
The DRG should do the honourable thing like Niger, Burkina Faso, Gabon etc, break the shackles of the colonial west, they have bled you dry, take hold of the reins and run your own nation through justice and your resources
Child labor and dangerous worker conditions for the Cobalt mines needed for electric cars. Many of the mines owned by China. We should not be having a blind eye to harsh treatment of even children workers in the name of green batteries for green cars. China has serious problems dealing fairly with workers. The D.R.C. supplies 73% of the world's cobalt. But it goes almost exclusively to China, which has locked down both mining and refining of the metal in the country. Where is China in this crisis. Did Democrasy Now redact China's role in this?
Africa is a big continent. Can you expect only one country to solve all its problems? Do you use a smartphone or tablet? What about all the western brands selling products made of these materials? At least accept your own share of responsibility before laying all the blame on another country.
That should creat a pretty good economy. Where does the congo go wrong? Housing, farming? Did somethinghapen to their farmers?
Thank you for covering. We simply must do better. Now. Knowing is the first step of informing.
He's says no where in the world.....WHAT ABOUT HAITI ???? FOR MANY YEARS THEY'VE BEEN NIGLECTED ......DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHATS HAS HAPPENED AND IS STILL ONGOING??
But billions of dollars going into Ukraine for a war. How stupid can we human beings be.
Lies. In the congo a forest filled with food are going hungry stop the lies
Who provides the weapons? Who is behind the violence? Name these and the companies who benefit from minerals and do not help the people.
Can somebody tell Biden and Congress about this?????
GOD please have mercy on these people, your creation. Give them wisdom and connections to rise above their horrible situation. In JESUS name. Amen.
The Creator of the universe please please come quickly and remove evil, greed and haterd wherever it is.
Another Coup in the making 🤷🏻♀️
But why is this not much reported, & why is the world ignoring the situation there?
And food is wasting here in the USA this so sad hungry is not nice
I agree with pretty much all his sentiments. I will say though that we have the kind of civilisation in Europe and the US we do precisely from robbing and raping countries like Congo. This and the exploitation and destruction of nature has driven the civilisation as we have it. We need to fundamentally transform the nature of civilisation. First, we need to stop our companies robbing these countries. We can do that. Unfortunately democracy is weak at the moment and much of the political system is coopted by these corpirates.
It's no one's fault but there own. US and Europe is not robbing them. Company's are purchasing a product the DRC is selling, DRC oppressing there own people and not using those sold resources for there betterment is not the problem of other countries. That's like saying it's your fault China has a child labor problem bc you buy shoes and bc you do your responsible for there laws and oppressing there own people. YOU are, no one else especially not the Chinese gov. That's retarded of course, these company's and foreign gov have zero say in what DRC does its not there country.
We need to feed the hunger, that's what we need to do! There r too mny homeless, hungry brothers and sisters that need r help!
So true the saying....the rich get richer and the poor get poorer because the poor helps the poor!
Question is, what are they doing with their rich, fertile agricultural lands????
We all have to end world hunger together! A world food census and command must be installed!
Okay so how can regular people, local church groups, and life groups help. The government doesn’t care about these countries. Give access to the people who want to help… 👋🏽
Excellent question.
Who is using their minerals….?
Maybe its time Western countries devote more resources to their own people. Citizens are weary of other countries' needs coming first.
Thats what im talking about
The guest talks about the European countries not providing aid. He also talks about Asia not providing aid. Okay, I understand where he is coming from but what about the so called *African Union?* They need to step up and clean up their own backyard and stop allowing foreigners to come to their home, extract their resources while exploiting the ppl, stop allowing these foreigners to cause political unrest, and stop looking for outsiders to fix the problem. The African Union wants to be looked at as "leaders" of the continent that are in unison with each other, then they have to do the work. They need to stop up. Shame on them for allowing their continent to be pillaged and gRaped by outsiders and shame on the foreign entities that have been getting away with this for decades, if not centuries.
When 25 million people die they can continue to take their resources. Know countries cares about black Africans. Just take take take . Every countries despise us.😡😡🥲😭they’re being paid to kill each other’s
Centuries
Someone got paid for those resources. No outsider is going into the Congo, who has their own military, and just taking things.
👆 Agreed. DRC is oppressing there OWN people. It's not China or anyone else going into DRC and taking resources. There purchasing a product the DRC is selling. Does not make all issues within DRC automatically there problem.
@@RJL612 they are going over there extorting those ppl to give over those resources in exchange for trinkets. And yes, they do deploy paramilitary ppl in the form of NGOs to "take" from the continent.
2 Esdras 16:22-40
[22]For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.
[23]And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down.
[24]There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it
[25]The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
[26]The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men:
[27]So that one man shall desire to see another, and to hear his voice.
[28]For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which shall hide themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
[29]As in an orchard of Olives upon every tree there are left three or four olives;
[30]Or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard:
[31]Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword.
[32]And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough.
[33]The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
[34]In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
[35]Hear now these things and understand them, ye servants of the Lord.
[36]Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the gods of whom the Lord spake.
[37]Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack.
[38]As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment:
[39]Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on every side.
[40]O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
But look what They are teaching in uk.. kids are now nit safe in school imo
Exploitation by Exploiters of Congo Resources should help the suffering people of DR of Congo
Sarath of Sri Lanka
Talk about the resources. That is why the area is being actively destabilized. UN recently murdered 46 Congolese.
France cause of it
Isnt the Congo where we get our stuff for cell phone/computer creation 😳?....that mineral comes from the Congo!!!! 😢 this is absolutely deplorable , 😡. How can the developed world be Okay with watching the inhabitants of the Congo suffer in this way? 😞
You should study the Correlation between eruptions at Mt. Pinatubo June 1991, Montserrat June 1997, Popocatepeti, Masaya and Santiaguito June 2016 and Hunga Tonga Jan 2022 with California record flood events 1991-1992, 1997-1998, 2016-2017 and 2022-2023. People try to blame El Nino, dual action with man made input doesn't make sense provided other years are drought years. Furthermore Study El Chichónal March-April 1982 the biggest eruption in Mexico History 10 times Greater than Mt. Saint Hellens in Washington and California floods of 1982-1983. The largest Volcanoes seem to explode during Hot weather then the result is Rain and cooling the earth after hence the years 536, 540, 1815 and 1886, also 1906 Mt Vesuvias exploded on two sides of the mountain, 1906-1907 Sacramento river in California floods 20 miles wide.
People should study the Correlation between eruptions at Mt. Pinatubo June 1991, Montserrat June 1997, Popocatepeti, Masaya and Santiaguito June 2016 and Hunga Tonga Dec 2021 with California record flood events 1991-1992, 1997-1998, 2016-2017 and 2022-2023. People try to blame El Nino, dual action with man made input doesn't make sense provided other years are drought years. Furthermore Study El Chichónal March-April 1982 the biggest eruption in Mexico History 10 times Greater than Mt. Saint Hellens in Washington and California floods of 1982-1983. The largest Volcanoes seem to explode during Hot weather then the result is Rain and cooling the earth after hence the years 536, 540, 1815 and 1886
There is no stop in the request for money to fund the war in Ukraine but pulling back from feeding people in the Congo is being pulled back? My God!😢
Yeah..the same global capitalist that contribute to this guy’s salary,DN and the Ukraine war are profiting here too. Everyone has a cell phone.
ya know....this is a problem always seen. Look..my work has been always for women...but hey...everyone of these stories make the men out to be..not important. WOMEN are emphasized as if that makes it a worse crisis. So...if women weren't neglected in this crisis it would then be ok? NO.
When America need to become a superpower, they need the nuclear bomb. The material came from DRC went good I need rubber. The rubber came from DRC. When Apple need material to make their iPhone the material came from DRC. Now you are telling me hunger is in the DRC creator of the universe. We need your help.
It’s evil Uganda didn’t feed any of these refugees smh why wouldn’t help other Africans
I don't understand why so many many people are billionaires for example movie stars or people that are famous from California United States Of America
Here you can see capitalism at work…. Isn’t it wonderful? For god sake.
Plus in Sudan Africa George Clooney Did Not Maintain The Donations
God blesd this man for being the voice for these children starving. They can take take take but not help pieces of shitz companies. How are they starving when they are the riches? Technically speaking.
When cannibalism ends, humans population started to grow, so need cannibalism back
The cause of the problem in that part of the world is called Paul kagame, the world should wake up and see the truth of what happening in East Africa, kagame always play the victim, but he is the biggest trait to peace and security .
Maybe the world is tired of nations that exploit their own people, promote violence, blame decades old colonialism for their present corruption etc.! Humanitarian aid should come from those who are benefiting directly from the labor of the people. The assistance needs to be DIRECT to the people most in need. If given to the government , guarantee corruption will profit and the people will still starve.
Africa, like Haiti, never gains fround no matter how much money is given to them. Stop throwing money to a lost cause.
All this has been going for years nd years, Congolese people absconded nd are living all over the world running away from their country just to live. Many are hv died are dieing never able to set their eyes in their Beloved country Congo. I wish I could wavecthe magic wand
who is the head of state of the DRC? he needs to be hold accountable for the slaughter of his people, I think the DRC needs a military leader like Burkina faso soon as possible to remove the M23 guys once an for all and close the border with all country till change made to better that country or else its remain the same think about it , who is going Rais up to the act and when too long may too late
Can anyone name another ethnicity other than Brown faced people of African descent that suffers more persecution, prosecution, rape, discrimination and economic deprivation and hunger in the 10s of millions ?
Help the DR of Congo people who need food and water and medicines and other materials
We pray Congo people with get all their requirements
Sarath from Sri Lanka
the Netherlands are the root cause of their situations, why don't they take care this issue in the way of reparatons to Congo? they apologised, now it's time for actions
Condos the combo and Africa got five billionaires living there and they need to roll that money out and take care of their people
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Amy Goodman!🫶
Is there any way of making small donations for the children in Congo?
The Congo should be rich like Kuwait or Dubai
Nothing will change unfortunately
Very sad our military should be dropping off food.
Like George Clooney Is His Wife Amal Clooney
They live in the desert and they can't make it here NYC put them back in the desert here somewhere
Mineral extraction enriches the few Chinese companies
Shame shame shame shame shame shame shame to all African presidents 🤦🏾🥲😭😭
Don't look for Brandon to help much. He's got to send our money to Ukraine
Stop talking here, adress this matter on united Nation to stop this noncence
How we are going to do something about it while we’re the ones responsible for this mess.
How can we help? I would like to give but not sure how.
thank you for talking about the DRC
"What lead up to this she asks"... greed !!!!
You can not learn if your hungry. Geez.
Its shame with all green we see there and devastating with anger
Africa frequently makes me sad. Africa has so much potential, such great resources, but between tribal groups, religion, cruelty, and culture differences - they keep tearing themselves apart. It seem like Africa could have been a world power, but they keep themselves poor and behind the rest of the world. It's such a hugh problem, I don't know how this will ever evolve into better lives for the African people.
Hmmm. I’d imagine if other countries didn’t exploit them of their resources by moving people off tribal lands with fake agreements. You know the ones where they promise to pay the communities they are forcing off their lands/give residuals and then never do. Wolves prey on these countries . I can’t imagine what a sheltered life you lead to make such an off base comment. This stuff is and has been well documented
Then again. You may just be a bot 🤖
No, they have been exploited beyond belief. And the rebels are supported by the U.S. as well.
You say “tearing themselves apart” and “keeping themselves poor” do you not understand this is colonialism and western interference that keeps this happening, the west is responsible and these demons that invoke this human atrocity are sitting in Europe and the United States, they choose to dispose of blacks in every way they can it has been a world wide campaign for centuries, but these same blacks are gods children, the true Israelites of the Hebrew Bible and soon the world will see the truth and fell the wrath of Yahweh, all glory to the most high who will restore Africa!
If you study the history of the last 50 years or so in Africa you will understand it's not something they have control over. Western powers may have retreated from the continent but their interests are what's keeping these countries in perpetual chaos. Dictators have remained in power for decades and weapons keep reaching rebel groups specifically because countries like France, UK, and the US want cheap access to minerals and other commodities.
OIL COMPANIES ARE TOO BLAME. THE MOUNT OF ESAU.
So what is Cornel West going to do about this?
focus on space🎉🎉🎉 10:50! fu(k earth!
Not only the Congo, what about Haiti
We are governed by Collective Antipathy. We aspire to humanitarian principles yet never quite make it. Maybe the reason why is because we sponsor tin-pot dictators in Rwanda and Uganda who in turn are sponsoring over 150 rebel groups in the Congo. These rebel groups are responsible for much of the misery in the Congo.
By the way, the economy in the Congo is not a 'Black economy,' it's definitely a 'White economy' imposed on Black people.