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Current Feed ContentD.R. of Congo: Fifth fatal crash in under a year, food prices the real disasterby 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... |