‘Nuclear shadow’ created to commemorate Congo village linked to Hiroshima

The nuclear bombs dropped during World War 2 may have landed in Japan‚ but the devastation they created is still being felt in a small village in Congo. Shinkolobwe‚ in the south of Congo‚ was destroyed to mine the uranium used to make the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.Today (on Thursday)‚ on the 70th anniversary of the attack‚ the Congolese Civil Society in South Africa met at the University of Cape Town to remember the humanitarian disaster that took place in both c...