Kim Gjerstad is from Canada, formerly a UN Aid Worker now an entrepreneur. He’s got a lot of great incite into a country I’ve only dreamed of visiting.

One of favorites is some of his coverage of the youth violence. I’ve spent the last few hours digging into more local coverage of bloggers in the Congo. Quite amazing actually. It’s an amazing world we live in.

Life without street kids is awesome. Last week, my flat mate, Tim, and I discovered the joy of walking free. Kinshasa’s main throughway, the infamous Boulevard 30 Juin, was peaceful. “The city feels like a normal city!” cried out Tim. So fine it was, we went for pleasure stroll, the first in three years.

With the current tense political events and shootings last month, they city’s mood is very shifty. This new change was strange indeed. Suddenly, some 20 000 street souls left the other 8 million alone.

Read more of his story.

There is a lot more. It’s quite interesting to get people’s perspective on a nation in crisis. Especially since we have no coverage on the great mainstream front like CNN, or Fox.

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