DRC - A Country On Hold?
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Waiting for elections and trying to answer awkward questions about sex in the DRC. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world:
William Edmundson is in the Democratic Republic of Congo wondering just how democratic it really is. Katty Kay looks at how the mood in the #metoo movement has gone from hope to concern in the US. Will Grant boards a rather empty flight from Miami to Havana and assesses US –Cuba relations under President Trump - there may be turbulence ahead. Natalia Golysheva travels to the Russian Far East to meet some of the Old Believer sect, who’ve recently returned home. And Chris Bockman reports on the French island of Faisans that is soon to be Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello. Today headlines here about sexual harassment, |
| 0:07.8 | but our correspondent fears a backlash against Me Too in the United States, a suspicion that old habits die hard. |
| 0:16.2 | Cuba, just 90 miles south of the US, was pulled a little closer diplomatically by Barack |
| 0:22.3 | Obama, but President Trump is now widening the divide again. |
| 0:27.0 | From Bolivia to Russia a homecoming for the old believers sect and border change a tricky political problem usually but not in |
| 0:36.1 | France or is it Spain? The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been waiting a long time to have their say on who runs their country. |
| 0:47.0 | Elections that should have taken place in 2016 have now been delayed until December this year and many are losing patients. |
| 0:55.9 | There are regular protests organized by a body linked to the country's powerful Catholic |
| 1:00.4 | church. |
| 1:02.0 | Last weekend at least six people died after security forces stepped in to disperse |
| 1:06.6 | demonstrators and dozens of other people have been killed over the past year. |
| 1:11.8 | The uncertainty is taking its toll on the country and on the |
| 1:15.5 | Congolese as William Edmondson has found. |
| 1:18.6 | It's called Dr Love, says Amy. |
| 1:21.6 | Dr Love, to be precise, written the French way. It's a smartphone app to help the Congolese |
| 1:27.8 | find answers to awkward questions about sex. |
| 1:31.6 | Amy Locolutu is proud of his creation. It's a Congolese solution to a Congolese problem. |
| 1:37.0 | Talking about sex, he tells me in his deep, gravelly, Barry White voice is often taboo. |
| 1:42.0 | The love app is close to his heart. Before he |
| 1:45.2 | qualified as a doctor he'd got his then girlfriend pregnant. He'd heard that if a |
| 1:49.6 | woman took two anti-malaria tablets before sex, it wouldn't happen. His son now 21 is a product |
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