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1904 Reports of the trypanosomiasis expedition to the Congo,

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Reports of the trypanosomiasis expedition to the Congo, 1903-1904 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology / J. Everett Dutton, John L. Todd and Cuthbert Christy with a comparison of the trypanosomes of Uganda and the Congo Free State / by H. Wolferstan Thomas and Stanley F. Linton and supplementary notes on the tsetse-flies (genus 'Glossina', Wiedemann) / by Ernest E. Austen. Bound together with..
by Dutton, Joseph Everett, 1877-1905; Dutton, Joseph Everett, 1877-1905; Todd, John Launcelot, b.1876; Christy, Cuthbert, d.1932; Thomas, Harold Wolferstan; Linton, Stanley F; Boyce, Sir Rubert William 1863-1911; Evans, Arthur; Clarke, Henry Herbert; Giles, George Michael James, 1853-1916; Breinl, A. (Anton); Newstead, Robert, 1859-1947; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Published 1904

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1886 Great explorations in the wilds of Africa,…

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including Sir Samuel Baker's expedition with a force of nearly two thousand men to suppress the slave trade; Lieut. Cameron's "Across Africa," with these travelers' marvelous accounts of fighting the natives, hunting the hippopotamus, elephant and lion, and Henry M. Stanley's story of his last and greatest work and explorations in organizing and bringing into the family of nations "the Congo Free State," … with a graphic account of "Chinese" Gordon in Africa
by Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897

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1967 – British peer reveals MI6 role in Lumumba killing

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Hasan Suroor (The Hindu)

The British intelligence services may have just had one of their best-kept secrets blown: their role in the abduction and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister whose Pan-African nationalism and pro-Moscow leanings alarmed the West.

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Life is Cheap in the Congo, by Ali Khalid Abdullah

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It is reported that nowhere is Afrika is the killing and looting as horrific as it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A country where multinational corporations pillage, plunder, bankroll armies and mercenaries to reap the riches that lay in the Congo's rich earth.

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2001: The death of Laurent Desire Kabila

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On 16 January 2001, President Laurent-Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was gunned down by one of his bodyguards, plunging the war-torn country into a period of uncertainty and speculation.

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