Why There Isn't A Bridge Between the Congos 

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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*

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.

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

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.

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 😭

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Great video.

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

7:57 Congo-Congo Congo crossing crossing the Congo

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.

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

Greetings from Egypt ❤🌹

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

A port named Banana?

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

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

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

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

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

I live in Bangladesh

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

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

5:44 or Napoleon

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

Within 5 hours!

Video begins at 5:50

Isn't the Congo preposterously deep?

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

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

Shouldn't they build railways instead of highways?

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It's cheaper than build a wall. 😅

No Congo across.

Foremanescque thumbnail

We wuz bridge buildrz

I will never I hear ‘Dr Congo’

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

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

why is everyone making videos about central african countries?

@4:40 it is not that private business owners have improved much in the 21st century, abroad it is child labour and deaths at work, while home you get fired for joining a union or getting pregnant.

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

Africa poor west rich west good

Because nobody built them.

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i am from Belgium its all my fault sorry .

TLDR: No money to build a bridge.

im bisexual

Because of Rwandan sabotage😠

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

The fragile states index seems somewhat biased.