Friday, August 25, 2006
UN Mission in DR Congo
Hello and good morning – this is Cybersurf – a brief look at what is happening on the internet. I am Steven Lang.
You are no doubt aware of the current turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo or the DRC because you are clearly well informed and obviously listen to SAfm. I am certain that you get most of your news about the DRC here on the news and information station.
But if you want to find out more about the political upheavals in the continent’s largest country; where do you go? Well if you’ve been paying careful attention to the station you will certainly have heard of MONUC the United Nations Mission in the DRC.
And MONUC has a very informative site that will give you all the background information and latest news about that country, but particularly about the elections and the aftermath of the recent shooting incidents.
You can find the MONUC site at monuc dot org that is M.O.N.U.C. dot org. When you log on for the first time you can choose to look at the English or the French versions of the site, then after making your selection you are taken to a very clean looking conventional site that is full of relevant information.
The main section of the front page carries one or two smallish photographs and the first paragraph of the top news stories. The stories are not updated with frenetic rapidity but they do have all the latest information.
Down the right hand side there is a section that carries articles from the news wires. When I looked there were two from Reuters, one from the BBC and one from AFP.
Below the News wires there is a section that takes you to election pictures, another takes you to news stories in the press – that is really news organisations that have web sites, and finally a survey where you are invited to give a Yes or a No answer to a particular question.
The real piece of organisation takes place however on the fairly normal looking left navigation bar.
There are buttons called ABOUT MONUC; Newsroom; press, activities, resources etc. all nicely grouped together and when you click on any of them, a drop down menu springs out of the word; so for example when I hit NEWSROOM – a menu spurted out with the following sub-categories:
Top stories, press reviews, Radio monitoring, press briefings, releases and dossiers.
There is plenty to satisfy even the most ardent news junkie – well worth the visit – but if you still crave more, then you can go to the links section and start practicing your French because the UN sponsored radio station Radio Okapi is only in French and so are just about all the other DRC related sites.
Even the one of the DRC Electoral commission – ok this site is in French, but if you are interested in the election results, you should be able to follow what is happening. The address of the site is cei-rdc dot org let me spell that out again cei-rdc dot org you can also type in cei-rdc dot cd.
And that wraps up Cybersurf for today, thanks for listening and please tune in again next Wednesday, same time same place for more on the best of the web.
You are no doubt aware of the current turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo or the DRC because you are clearly well informed and obviously listen to SAfm. I am certain that you get most of your news about the DRC here on the news and information station.
But if you want to find out more about the political upheavals in the continent’s largest country; where do you go? Well if you’ve been paying careful attention to the station you will certainly have heard of MONUC the United Nations Mission in the DRC.
And MONUC has a very informative site that will give you all the background information and latest news about that country, but particularly about the elections and the aftermath of the recent shooting incidents.
You can find the MONUC site at monuc dot org that is M.O.N.U.C. dot org. When you log on for the first time you can choose to look at the English or the French versions of the site, then after making your selection you are taken to a very clean looking conventional site that is full of relevant information.
The main section of the front page carries one or two smallish photographs and the first paragraph of the top news stories. The stories are not updated with frenetic rapidity but they do have all the latest information.
Down the right hand side there is a section that carries articles from the news wires. When I looked there were two from Reuters, one from the BBC and one from AFP.
Below the News wires there is a section that takes you to election pictures, another takes you to news stories in the press – that is really news organisations that have web sites, and finally a survey where you are invited to give a Yes or a No answer to a particular question.
The real piece of organisation takes place however on the fairly normal looking left navigation bar.
There are buttons called ABOUT MONUC; Newsroom; press, activities, resources etc. all nicely grouped together and when you click on any of them, a drop down menu springs out of the word; so for example when I hit NEWSROOM – a menu spurted out with the following sub-categories:
Top stories, press reviews, Radio monitoring, press briefings, releases and dossiers.
There is plenty to satisfy even the most ardent news junkie – well worth the visit – but if you still crave more, then you can go to the links section and start practicing your French because the UN sponsored radio station Radio Okapi is only in French and so are just about all the other DRC related sites.
Even the one of the DRC Electoral commission – ok this site is in French, but if you are interested in the election results, you should be able to follow what is happening. The address of the site is cei-rdc dot org let me spell that out again cei-rdc dot org you can also type in cei-rdc dot cd.
And that wraps up Cybersurf for today, thanks for listening and please tune in again next Wednesday, same time same place for more on the best of the web.
