Why There Isn't A Bridge Between the Congos

[@KhAnubis]

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[@canuckguy0313]

The Pulitzer Prize for Journalism *has* to go to whoever wrote the headline "Congo-Congo Congo crossing connection construction" at 7:50. That headline, especially the first three words, are *chef's kiss*

[@johnobrien8773]

I'm still stuck on Kinshasa having a population of over 17 million. I knew there were megacities I didn't know anything about but not in the Congo.

[@KhAnubis]

The largest French-speaking city in the world (depending on who you ask), and yet I could barely find two dozen different video clips across two different stock footage websites-- don't even get me started on how hard it was to find assets relating to Brazzaville

[@bigbootros4362]

Meh it's a bit of internet stretch to say it's french speaking. Many many poor people can't speak french. It's like rural India or rural Kenya where many can't speak English yet the statistics said they do. In Kinshasa the educated and middle class speak french. The poor struggle with it. And there is many of them.

[@zainmudassir2964]

​@@bigbootros4362 many can somewhat understand English like reading Billboards but most definitely can't speak with fluency. Same with Pakistan

[@micha2909]

​@@KhAnubisIt's the internet age and still there is no platform where you can hire a local in an under-filmed location to do some filming for you. Why?

[@Rat_8868]

@@micha2909bro what?

[@walli6388]

My tip: Most countries with the same name hate eachother.

[@Stephen_Ahweera]

Just like the Koreas

[@Bhq870]

@@Stephen_Ahweera Sudan and South Sudan

[@SimonWad]

I was terrible at geography and history at school - and have been a career scientist for the past 30 years. But my gosh I love your videos.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

0:06 Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava : *"ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!?"*

[@LegendNinja41]

Who was here before the Thumbnail was changed to ''No Bridges?'' from ''No Bitches?'' KhAnubis you're WILD 🤣

[@KhAnubis]

The original text was always "no bridges" but I'll take it

[@gurvb]

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[@mickeybowmeister1944]

I flew in Brazzaville in 97 from Nairobi, was originally going to travel through Zaire but country imploded that year. Trucked it up to Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Mail, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara and finishing in Morocco. The Congo is a beast of a river.

[@hbowman108]

Mobutu did not die in office. He was overthrown in the Congo Wars a few months before he died. Before his overthrow he was widely rumored to have either cancer or AIDS.

[@Teliassen]

Great video as always into a topic I'd never thought about, but the second i saw the thumbnail I just had to know!

[@tobirates916]

Best description of KhAnubis’s channel ever.

[@SisterSunny]

Great video! I really hope the trans-African highway includes railway throughout, locking Africa into car dependency in the 21st century is a death wish for everyone 😭

[@Rynewulf]

Its been a terrible move everywhere its been tried

[@KhAnubis]

I fully agree with you there, but there's a difference between building highways where there are already plenty of roadways, versus building a highway where there aren't many good paved roads at all

[@FlagAnthem]

not everybody wants to live in a hive

[@pacificdream5152]

If the highway is completed it will be a success as many countries in Africa aren't interconnected and are mostly connected to ports. This is worse for landlocked countries. A highway will boost the economy of many African countries as it will increase trade and stimulate growth. Personally, I would prefer trains but they are so expensive to construct, run and maintain compared to roads.

[@squeaksquawk4255]

@@FlagAnthem And no-one is making anyone live in a hive, whatever that's supposed to mean. I don't see why building a road & rail highway is supposed to be worse than just a road highway, especially considering freight rail

[@boulderbash19700209]

"We won't cooperate on building the bridge if you don't invest in our port!" "That's Banana!"

[@nunyabiznes33]

How hard is to build roads across the Sahara and what do they do to prevent them getting swallowed by dunes?

[@rianfelis3156]

Mostly you just try to build them on the rocky parts instead of the sandy parts. There's a lot less sand in deserts than popular media suggests.

[@hbowman108]

It's easier than plowing snow.

[@gj1234567899999]

Being able to take a road trip from South Africa to Morocco or Egypt would be epic.

[@מ.מ-ה9ד]

*Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu)

[@MimOzanTamamogullar]

Aren't Southern Nicosia and Northern Nicosia tied with Rome and Vatican as the closest capitals in the world? They're literally touching

[@garethking1639]

Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the vast majority of countries.

[@agusti_zainal0445]

The Capital is Bordered #Kinshasa-DR Congo🇨🇩 #Brazzaville-Republic Congo🇨🇬 #Bangui-Central Africa🇨🇫 #Ndjamena-Chad🇹🇩 #Lome-Togo🇹🇬 #Porto_Novo-Benin🇧🇯 #Masseru-Lesotho🇱🇸 #Vientiane-Laos🇱🇦 #Taskent-Uzbekistan🇺🇿 #Asuncion-Paraguay🇵🇾 #Gaborone-Botswana🇧🇼 #Andorra_laBella🇦🇩 #Bratislava-Slovenia🇸🇮 #Monaco-Monaco🇲🇨 #Rome-Italy🇮🇹 #San_Marino-San Marino🇸🇲 #Singapore-Singapore🇸🇬 #Vaduz-liechtenstein🇱🇮 #Vatican-Vatikan🇻🇦

[@filipzucker3084]

Nigga bratislava is in slovakia 🇸🇰

[@gurururuwarararara8164]

Slovenia has Ljubljana, not Bratislava

[@Peizxcv]

A port named Banana?

[@Koala1203]

New shipping hub in southwest Africa. Reaching the world from southwest Congo. Port of Banana

[@aleksandarvil5718]

​@@Koala1203First BLACK President of Zimbabwe (mandate 1980-1987), BEFORE Robert Mugabe, was Canaan Banana !!! 😂😂😂

[@thechosenone5644]

7:57 Congo-Congo Congo crossing crossing the Congo

[@uuuuuuuu-ko8cr]

Greetings from Egypt ❤🌹

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@South._.American-Union]

I live in Bangladesh

[@stresemanniteist]

Video begins at 5:50

[@LosPalms]

Thank you life saver 🛟🙏🏽

[@jan10916f]

I would really love, if you got some local experts to chime into these kinda videos

[@amehak1922]

First comment, I call Zaire Dr Congo also, and the other Regular Congo

[@belstar1128]

Dr Congo is the one everyone knows the other one nobody knows anything about.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

So I can't drive from the capital of the Congo across the Congo to the capital of the Congo. Got it. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Liggliluff]

(0:12) I can never get over how people say "culam-eaters". Do you also say "centom-eaters"?

[@512TheWolf512]

businessmen definitely didn't chgange between the Congo occupation and today.

[@P4Tri0t420]

4:50 Well at this Time Ruanda and Burundi were also Belgian Colonies

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@P4Tri0t420 NOPE, they were Colonies of Imperial Germany / Hohenzolern!2nd Reich !!!

[@P4Tri0t420]

@@aleksandarvil5718 That's nonsense. Habsburg 2nd German Reich, are you even aware of what dumb you are talking about?! Ruanda (Rwanda) and Burundi were belgian and Germany was ruled by the Hohenzollern , du Held

[@P4Tri0t420]

Deleted bc straight bs

[@tymon5349]

an ad that is 20% of your vid... i thought you were better than that

[@1purapericulo]

Chillax he gotta bring home the bacon

[@Ryfael]

He's got to eat

[@isaacbakan1295]

On the other hand, the rest of Colonial Europe might want to look at other nations to make what they are doing seem less bad. Not saying your point isn't valid simultaneously

[@Mrmidknight-yx9pg]

I now know that a city named banana exists and that makes me feel........ good

[@kasdepar]

Yeah it certainly has a peel 😁

[@wojtekpolska1013]

5:44 or Napoleon

[@zainmudassir2964]

Same is true for border between Pakistan and India. They should build bridges

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

yellow red blue

[@marcneef795]

Shouldn't they build railways instead of highways?

[@FlagAnthem]

both are good

[@zainmudassir2964]

Airways will be best

[@marym7104]

Within 5 hours!

[@bababababababa6124]

Most Westerners will probably just default to the answer “they have no money”

[@Ozzymandius1]

This is the most mentally disabled take I’ve ever come across. I also feel you do not know what constitutes the “West”. The default answer most anyone would go to is difficulty.

[@jessetorres9502]

Projecting much?

[@SteppesoftheLevant]

Or it gets looted

[@bababababababa6124]

@@Ozzymandius1you’re just waffling 😂😂

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

​@@bababababababa6124 I think most Westerners do not care what the two Congo's are up to really since they live in Europe or North America not Africa

[@SeverusFelix]

Isn't the Congo preposterously deep?

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Some small notes on captions First some love; i love how you censored the coitus related F word there in the captions, which i know is necessary bcuz of how youtube treats swears in captions somehow worse than swears in videos. F(censored)ing is prty easily clear and is leagues better than [_] as autogen captions do; completely infantilisin us disabled ppl and also just removin context entirely What i find extra funny here tho is that you changed it from the script in your readin of it, so this is actually the first time i can think of where the captions actually include more of a swear than the vid itself. Ive seen autogen captions turn Fu-*ding* into [_] before but nvr the other way around heh. Its nice for the most abled of hearin folk to get a small taste of what many disabled ppl exp... Where they simply are told a slightly diff story than the rest are bein told; and an intentionally less offensive one as if to protect your virgin ears (or the disabled persons virgin eyes as the case may be) On that tho, the fact the captions dont line up with spoken text is always a prob bcuz it means that disabled viewers get a diff exp, and usually thats inferior. For example, a deaf viewer here wud have no idea that you made a DR Congo joke; seemingly cuz that was added after the script was written Theres other subtle changes like that here which i think it wud be rly nice if you were able to take a little more time and adjust the script changes based on the final edit of the vid before uploadin, at least as youre usin the script as captions Its grt to see captions ofc, just wantin to make sure theyre as equitably accessible as possible here Notably, even tho im not deaf, i rely on captions bcuz of an auditory processin disorder, and it is harder for me to follow along with a vid when the spoken words and written words dont align; tho at least here... Thats generally a nonissue bcuz theres a lack of bg noises distractin and makin it harder for me to parse things; but it still catches me up a bit and sometimes i have to rewind but its nowhere near as bad as it is in other cases. This is actually the biggest reason i stopped watchin most anime; bcuz i need to hear and read the same words or else i will miss words and lose focus and find the vid just hard to watch... And most anime chooses the simple route of havin dubbed eps just use the subbed captions; which i totes get why it is a nice option for someone who wants to make sure they can more fully understand the intent of a translation... It shud rly not be the only option; actual captions are a necessary thing, or else the vids are just more inaccessible and available to a smaller audience

[@boulderbash19700209]

It's cheaper than build a wall. 😅

[@kpaige2928]

I will never I hear ‘Dr Congo’

[@marym7104]

2,712 views!

[@ruganzajadon2369]

My dad and mom born on Congo with a blue flag

[@rosieroti4063]

Holy shit!! A transafrican highway!!??? 😨😨😨 That would be a wonder of the world... Think about it.

[@ivorianmapper]

why is everyone making videos about central african countries?

[@sirBrouwer]

Because it is fascinating. For a very long time there was little coverage of the entire continent. Outside of ether Egypt in the very old history. Or just the entire contitent as some back ward place where everything was depicted as if everyone still lives like the hunter gatherers. They would show on National Geographic. The economic boom you now see in several places shows that there is a lot of potential. And that in it self is just wild.

[@bababababababa6124]

Because why not? If you don’t want to see it then don’t watch

[@barraman.]

Foremanescque thumbnail

[@lukecronquist6003]

We wuz bridge buildrz

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

1 is french the other who?

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

belgium bavaria whom

[@hbowman108]

No Congo across.

[@prettypic444]

All my homies hate king Leopold

[@0dayswithoutincident934]

I cant take the cover seriously. I accidentally read it as No Bitches?

[@marym7104]

2,671th viewer of this video!

[@belstar1128]

i am from Belgium its all my fault sorry .

[@Angelgreat]

TLDR: No money to build a bridge.

[@regamox]

he literally said in the video that's it's not only about money

[@houseplant1016]

​@@regamoxhe didn't give any specific reason, only that it's because of corruption and 1 party wants another investment to avoid losing money. So it is about money lmfao.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@houseplant1016this is literally what I was talking about in my other comment. Ignorant Westerners would always default to the money argument with this issue. The main issue is just the DRC being stubborn about it. They believe that a bridge would undermine their own ports as RC has better port facilities and many businesses in DRC would choose to ship from there instead if there was an easy route there. Yes, money is a small factor but I’m assuming you’re the one who didn’t watch the video otherwise you would’ve caught this

[@houseplant1016]

@@bababababababa6124 literally what I said, so it is clearly about money, the drc doesn't want to lose money/is afraid to lose by the competition...Also bold of you to assume I am Western while I am just an African.

[@cheeseflavoredsoda3262]

Because nobody built them.

[@molybd3num823]

Why did nobody build them? That's the question

[@cheeseflavoredsoda3262]

@@molybd3num823 For the same reason nothing is ever built in Africa, COLONIALISM, jk.

[@paul9299]

Nice of you to interrupt your commercial with a bit of content. FFS man unsubscribed, you have been going downhill for a while now ✌️

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[@houseplant1016]

Because of Rwandan sabotage😠

[@FlamingBasketballClub]

The fragile states index seems somewhat biased.