Hmmm, looking at the leads on the front page yesterday and a couple of them, submitted by one member, didn’t have a flag - ‘Member based in Zaire’ it said.

How odd why didn’t we have a flag for Zaire?  Because it’s no longer Zaire, it’s the Democratic Republic of the Congo of course!

Needless to say changes have been made to the system and you can now view a flag for DR Congo:

So what can we say about the country?  It’s a large country in west-central Africa with a huge potential - 60 million people and tons of natural resources.  But like many in the region it has been devastated by war, poor leadership, corruption etc.

If you’re thinking of trading with them their imports include: foodstuffs, machinery (especially mining machinery), transport equipment and fuel.

Their main exports are: diamond, copper, crude oil, coffee and cobalt.

Their main trading partners are: Belgium, US, Zimbabwe, Finland, South Africa, France and Germany.  But I’m sure exbunia and his compatriots will welcome trade from people everywhere.
           

Oh dear, our site suffered a ‘denial of service’ spam attack yesterday causing the servers to be temporarily suspended until this afternoon.  Hope nobody was too badly affected.

Thankfully we’ve some good technical people on hand who are definitely worth their weight in gold - which will be alot of money as the price of gold hits a 25 year peak today. 

I’m sure that bit of news puts a broad smile on the faces of members such as renatoimpex.