Echoes of the soul: Exploring the Human Experience

            Opinion/26 Jun 2024             By Dorcas Mbuyi     A woman was seen cleaning her toilet made from tin outside her home.   The horror story continues as there have been minor changes since the DRC's independence on the 30 th  of June 1960. The country has been under attack for many years and there seems to be no aid coming in. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa. The country has 250 dialect languages and Kinshasa, the capital, is the second-largest French-speaking city in the entire world. There have been decades of war and conflict in the DRC which has taken over 5.4 million lives. The United Nations has reported that nearly 1,000 child soldiers are recruited yearly. The attacks are ongoing; most victims are women who are sexually abused by these soldiers. Besides, the negative aspects of the country, the DRC is enri...

                26 June 2024           By Dorcas Mbuyi  Image credit : Alchetron.com The first Congolese war started in 1996 whereby Rwanda and Uganda invaded parts of the DRC preferably the Eastern part. The aim of the invasion was to protect the DRC by de-rooting the remainder of the perpetrators of the genocide. However, an alliance was formed between Ugandan and Rwandan army which eventually led to the defeat of the then dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.   After nearly twenty years, the war is still on-going as the number of fatality of women and children continues to increase drastically.   In a recent interview with the SABC, the Vice Prime of the DRC, Jean-Pierre Bemba told the SABC reporter that the war in the Eastern part of Congo should have ended in 2003, however the war continues as the Rwanda is after the minerals that is embedded within the country.   Although, the stat...

  OPINION /    Let me please your palate. By Dorcas Tabitha Mbuyi Here’s the thing, I love food. I mean who doesn’t, cooking brings me a lot of pleasure. Have you seen the art behind every detail of ingredients and the different tastes merged to complete a dish?   How much do you know about the food you consume and its effects on your health?   Firstly, our consumption of food has increased drastically in the past 20 years. We have seen an increase in Westernized styles of food including more fats, meat, and oils, and a more popular one is soft drinks. According to the Food Technology magazine , South Africans and most of the world consume less vegetables. The total percentage of sugar intake was 12,3%, above the initial recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The percentage of salt consumption levels is 8,1 g/day, which is double the recommendation of WHO. What we eat affects more than our physical health but also our mental h...