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I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley. I built it on a ridge to get away ...
Hello Everyone, Today, I’m building a new A-frame mud hut using a mixture of mud and grass. This traditional method creates a durable structure with excellent thermal insulation, making it ...
It took a peak commitment of 19,400 United Nations troops to restore a sullen peace to the strife-torn Congo. By June 30, the last 3,000 members of the U.N. force will be withdrawn, and already ...
A Grass Valley homeowner was one of the only neighbors who stayed behind to protect his home—fighting the River Fire on his own with 2,000 gallons of water stored on his property.
Pizza Hut officials have gone silent on a possible rebuild of the company's restaurant at 294 N. River Ave. in Holland Township.
In Congo: A River Journey you will experience a different DRC, as you join Alastair Leithead, the BBC’s Africa Correspondent, on a slow journey in sound up the Congo River.
Here at the mouth of the huge Congo River, where the nation squeezes into the Atlantic with a mere 20 miles of coastline, is the Congo’s solitary seaport: sultry, burgeoning Matadi. Enough Bananas.
The Opinion Pages Start Building Peace in Congo at the Grass-Roots Level Séverine Autesserre is an assistant professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
A little-known but highly effective low-budget United Nations initiative that brings grass-roots aid to thousands of people in small communities around the world is now providing work and food for ...
ALBAWABA - Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Friday that a fire on an overloaded wooden boat on the Congo River had killed at least 148 people and left hundreds more missing ...
International peace-builders must follow the lead of crucial local groups to invest in solving Congolese conflicts from the bottom up.