Wüstenschiff

Beer and normality in DR Congo
27.09.2008 - BBC

The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured more than a decade of conflict, but as Ben Rawlence finds, a simple bottle of beer can represent a welcome token of normal life. Walking through the bombed out brewery of Manono it is hard to believe that it once supplied beer to the whole region. At one point, this was a city of nearly half a million people, the tin-mining capital of the world. Now the tall cathedral - built by Belgian missionaries - has mortar holes in the roof, trees grow behind the counter in the post office and a river runs through the walls of a hydro-electric power station that used to provide the town and tin factories with electricity ... mehr

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