D.R. of Congo: Fifth fatal crash in under a year, food prices the real disaster

by Jennifer Brea News agencies are reporting that 75 were killed when a cargo plane crashed in Goma shortly after takeoff on today. An overloaded cabin may have been the cause. It's the fifth fatal plane crash since June 2007.Last October, Du Cabiau à Kinshasa, responding to a plane crash in a poor district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrote, ominously: “This crash was not the first…it will not be the last” (Fr).Sadly, these words have proved prophetic. In the...