Vodacom execs stuck in Congo after fight over new tax
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned some telecommunications executives from leaving the country after they resisted paying a new tax on the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
Executives from the country’s four...
Protesters stormed a United Nations base in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Monday demanding the departure of peacekeepers from the region.
Hundreds of people blocked roads and chanted anti-UN slogans before storming the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Goma, as well as a...
I just read about DRC internet being shutdown, and I remember in Brazil Whatsapp was also blocked. How do government do this? Can it happen to us here in South Africa?
Just curious.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SANDF-No-SA-soldiers-killed-in-DRC-20130828
Johannesburg - No South African soldiers have been killed or seriously injured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the SA National Defence Force [SANDF] said on Wednesday.
Reports that SANDF troops were injured...
Vodacom's Congo fixer legal battle draws in the diplomats
Vodacom accused of calling in political muscle to sway a Congolese lawsuit with their South African fixer