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51 min ago | International Crisis Group

Congo: A Comprehensive Strategy to Disarm the FDLR

Rwanda military push against the Rwandan Hutu rebels has ended with scant results.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

People's Daily Online

Chinese soldiers leave for UN peace mission in DR. Congo

A 100-member team of Chinese soldiers left Lanzhou Thursday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo for an eight-month UN peace-keeping operation.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

News24

Congo-Brazzaville minister dies

Congo-Brazzaville's hydrocarbons minister has died while in Paris, the government said in a statement on Sunday without specifying the cause.

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Related Topix: World News

Sun Jul 05, 2009

CPJ Press Freedom Online

Four months on, death unsolved in Republic of Congo

Nearly four months after the death of Franco-Congolese journalist Bruno Jacquet OssA©bi , the Committee to Protect Journalists called today for authorities in the Republic of Congo to publicly disclose a report that was prepared weeks ago on their investigation.

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Related Topix: World News

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

New reports from the UN and analysts in India, Washington and London estimate that at least 30m hectares is being acquired to grow food for countries such as China and the Gulf states who cannot produce enough for their populations.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, Africa, Madagascar

Fri Jul 03, 2009

News-Medical.Net

Moxidectin being tested for onchocerciasis

A clinical trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Africa, Health

Thu Jul 02, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Congo-Kinshasa: Secret Police Accused of Torture

Rights groups say they have received many reports of intelligence agents abusing detainees.

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Related Topix: Activism, World News, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila

CNN

Ex-Congo vice president to appear in war crimes court

Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba is due to appear on Monday before the International Criminal Court, where he faces war crimes charges of rape, torture and pillaging during civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium

Tue Jun 30, 2009

IRIN

CONGO: "Simmering discontent" ahead of elections

BRAZZAVILLE, 30 June 2009 - Barely two weeks before presidential elections in the Republic of Congo, Marcel Kombo decided to send his wife and children away from Brazzaville.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family

IRIN

GLOBAL: Cross-border diamond deals sidestep Kimberley Process

JOHANNESBURG, 29 June 2009 - Signatories to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - restated their commitment to the scheme at the close of a three-day meeting in Namibia on 26 June, but campaigners warned that more action, not talk, was needed now.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Africa

Mon Jun 29, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Namibia: Hage Boasts of Alternatives to EU Meat Deal

NAMIBIA has a revenue ace up its sleeve and therefore won't be pressurised into signing an interim economic partnership agreement with the European Union at the expense of regional integration and unity within the Southern African Customs Union , Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob said.

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Related Topix: Africa

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Peninsula

Election campaign begins in Congo

BRAZZAVILLE: Authorities in the Republic of Congo yesterday said they had collected almost 900 weapons from ex-rebels on the outskirts of the capital, as election campaigning formally got under way.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Denis Sassou-nguesso

Thu Jun 25, 2009

United Nations

First group of refugees leave Chad for new lives in US - " UN

A refugee family in a makeshift shelter in eastern Chad. The United States will accept hundreds of the most vulnerable for resettlement 23 June 2009 &#150 As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees programme, the first group of refugees has left Chad to begin new lives in the United States.

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Related Topix: Africa, Chad, World News

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Ekklesia Daily News

Survey shows devastating impact of hostilities on civilians

War and armed violence is taking an alarming toll on civilians in conflict-affected countries across the globe, according to new findings published by the International Committee of the Red Cross today .

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christian, Religion

Tue Jun 23, 2009

EurekAlert!

Scientists block Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells.

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Related Topix: University of Texas Medical Branch, World News, Africa, Immunology, Biology

Mon Jun 22, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Congo-Kinshasa: UN Calls for Protection of Woman Prisoners

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called on the Government to take urgent measures to improve prison security and improve conditions for inmates, after several women were assaulted during an attempted escape from Goma's central prison last night.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Democratic Republic of the Congo

News24

No EU observers for Congo

The European Union will not send observers to Congo's presidential election, a delegation of Euro-deputies visiting Brazzaville said on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Denis Sassou-nguesso

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Vanguard

Omar Bongo

El Haji Omar Bongo Ondimba, the diminutive President of Gabon, passed on last week at 73.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Gabon, Omar Bongo,

Fri Jun 19, 2009

News24

Pres candidates rejected

Congo's Constitutional Court rejected four candidates, including that of the main opposition party, from contesting the July 12 presidential vote, state radio announced on Friday.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Thu Jun 18, 2009

NewsBlaze

38 Million to Help Civilians in Eastern DR Congo

United Nations agencies and their partners today launched an appeal for $38 million to help nearly 1 million people in need of assistance amid armed attacks and military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo .

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Democratic Republic of the Congo,

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