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History

The history section makes virtually no mention of what happened between the late 15th century and independence in 1960. Can someone with knowledge on the subject fill this in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.195.132.121 (talk) 04:27, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yet another misrepresentation of Marxism/Socialism

I'm not an expert of the course of socialism in Africa but current en:WP contains no basis for the statement that the region/state was Marxist between independence and 1992. I'm virtually certain that instead the same sort of nationalistic/communal bourgeoisie that rules/ruled generally in Africa albeit with pretensions of being Marxists (which is what the article currently actually says ("dominated by Marxist rhetoric")) led the Congo in the post colonial period. The OTD entry and article lede is a glaring misrepresentation of the facts stated in the body of the article. Lycurgus 04:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nomenclature

We cannot rename a country for our convenience. The country is Congo, not North Congo Danny

I want to put this into the 'look and feel' of the other countries (see [[1]]) - any objections? I will start here. 2toise 03:15, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC) mikes gay

Sure just add the prime minister: Isidore Mvouba.

Minerals

Shouldn't the mineral resources of the country be mentionned? Like that congo has 80% if the worlds known Coltan. (used in electronics) And also has Niobium. [[2]] (I think mineral resources should be on the to-check list in articles about countries..) Dimonds are also a Congolies exsport, see [3] --Lilidor 11:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oil and gas

I added a link to- [[4]]. --Lilidor 11:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed WikiProject

In my ongoing efforts to try to include every country on the planet included in the scope of a WikiProject, I have proposed a new project on Middle Africa at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Middle Africa whose scope would include the Republic of the Congo. Any interested parties are more than welcome to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"braza" redirect inappropriate

well mike is gay Please don't autoredirect - see my talk comment on the non-redirected page of "braza" for why.

Congolese woman picture

The lady on the picture is hideous. Is this the best picture you could find ? Please replace the picture with a beautiful lady. You can do better than that. Do not make people think that Congolese ladies are ugly because that is not true.Shady19 (talk) 02:27, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regions and districts

Currently the article claims 10 regions, 1 commune and forty-six districts. A congolese website says "11 départements, 76 sous- préfectures et 7 communes urbaines". The Second Administrative Level Boundaries Dataset (SALB; maintained by United Nations) lists 11 regions and 93 districts. Statoids (here and [5]) basically simply says that various sources do not match with each other. Any bright ideas? – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:13, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]