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By Michael Allen on August 3, 2009
Dave Peterson, senior director of the National Endowment for Democracy’s Africa program, draws our attention to an impressive demonstration of solidarity by over 200 groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo in support of NED partner Golden Misabiko of ASADHO/Katanga.
“Ironically,” he notes, “the report the government sought to repress will now be more known than ever. “
Posted in Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, dissidents, Human rights | Tagged ASADHO/Katanga, Golden Misabiko, National Endowment for Democracy
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