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40 min ago | Inhabitat

World's Largest Hydropower Plant on Track for 2015 Groundbreaking in DR Congo

Work on the world's largest hydropower plant is expected to start in October, 2015 following commitments from the World Bank and other development agencies to finance its construction.

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1 hr ago | Ballymena Today

Getting The Word out

After spending some time working with various language communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am now working in the Belfast office, engaging with churches, groups and individuals, to promote the work of Bible translation from home.

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2 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives

A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group.

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6 hrs ago | The Atlantic

A Day in the DRC

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

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Related Topix: World News, Rwanda, Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Africa

Tue May 21, 2013

AllAfrica.com

Central Africa: In Africa's Great Lakes Region, Peace Dividend Must Follow Peace Deal

Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades.

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US News & World Report

How Congress Is Using the Congo to Weaken Dodd-Frank

Lawmakers expressed what appeared to be heartfelt concern Tuesday over an obscure provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, the major financial reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010, and how it has affected the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, US Politics, US News, Representative Bill Huizenga, Republican, US House of Representatives

AlertNet

Congolese army, rebels clash for a second day, 19 dead

M23 rebel recruits attend military lessons in the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 16, 2013.

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Reuters

World Bank boosts funds for Syria refugees, Africa

The World Bank plans substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in Syria, and hopes new funds for central Africa will cement a peace deal there, the bank's President Jim Yong Kim said on Tuesday.

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AlertNet

Could radio help mitigate climate change in the Congo Basin?

Climate change is hitting the Congo Basin region hard and while communities there and in other parts of Africa struggle to adapt to rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, scientists are trying to help - using radio to spread the word.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Cameroon, Central African Republic

Heraclitean Fire

Life and a Half by Sony Labou Tansi

This is my book from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the Read The World challenge .

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Mon May 20, 2013

UnionLeader.com

Congo war's legacy follows survivor to NH

Coco Ramazani's life is the subject of the book "Tell This to My Mother." The Manchester woman, who escaped from a military camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has AIDS and wants to get her story out before she dies.

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Related Topix: World News, Congo, Africa, Manchester, NH, Hamilton College

Cellular News

Vodacom Posts Sharp Rise in Full-Year Profits

South Africa based Vodacom has announced that its full year revenues rose by 4.5 percent to reach R59.34 billion , mainly driven by growth in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique.

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Reuters

UPDATE 1-Congo's army clashes with rebels near Goma

Congo's army used combat helicopters to bombard rebel fighters on Monday near the city of Goma in the first clashes in nearly six months, days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the troubled eastern borderlands.

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Voice of America

Rebels, Army Clash in Eastern DRC

M23 rebels sit in a vehicle as they withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Goma, Dec.

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Stockopedia

re. Analysts reports

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Sun May 19, 2013

The Guardian

Paul Kagame: I asked America to kill Congo rebel leader with drone

In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocence A new M23 recruit demonstrates his martial arts skills in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week.

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Related Topix: World News, Rwanda, Africa, Congo, Paul Kagame

C-SPAN

Book Discussion on [In the Body of the World]

Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues , talked about her memoir, In the Body of the World , in which she recounts her time working on women's rights issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo and her .. Read More Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues , talked about her memoir, In the Body of the World , in which she recounts her time ... (more)

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Sat May 18, 2013

The Hoya

College Commencement Speaker Emphasizes Empathy

Women's rights advocate and founder of the Run for Congo Women campaign Lisa Shannon called on graduates of the College to exercise empathy as a means of empowerment at commencement Saturday morning.

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The Miami Herald

Journalist found dead in eastern Congo

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday.

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Uprisingradio.org

Slate: Privacy for the Other 5 Billion

Move over, mobile phones. There's a new technological fix for poverty: biometric identification.

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