President Joseph Kabila backed moves to renew the mandate of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but said failure to deploy sufficient forces would be ”a waste of time.”
The Roman poet Ovid may have put it best when he said ”Rident stolidi verba Latina” – Fools laugh at the Latin language. Indeed, after centuries of decline and declarations of being dead, Latin as a living, spoken language is making a comeback of sorts.