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Metorex's Congo Copper Tests 'Exciting'
allAfrica.com - Thursday, January 17, 2008
IVERSIFIED miner Metorex would release the results of its drilling at the Musonoi copper deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of next month, and indications were that it was a "very exciting" ore body, Metorex chairman Simon Malone said ... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Over 500,000 People Displaced in Last Year, Says UN
Topix - Thursday, January 17, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Such an overwhelming level of new displacement is very worrying" More than a half a million people have been displaced in the past 12 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , mainly due to fighting between Government and rebel groups in the country's volatile... more
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Exiled Politician Proposes Solution for Congo Peace
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
he belligerents at the ongoing Congolese conference in Goma need to come up with a "peace contract", if there is to be any last peace for the troubled country, exiled controversial founder of a Rwandan political party has ... more
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Over 500,000 People Displaced in Last Year, Says UN
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
ore than a half a million people have been displaced in the past 12 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mainly due to fighting between Government and rebel groups in the country's volatile northeast, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said ... more
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'Give Kabila's killers amnesty'
Topix - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Lawmakers should discuss this case. They legislate and need to realise that the assassination of a head of state is a political crime, and if they don't want to, we ask them for a retrial" Lawyers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday argued that... more
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Doss - It is Necessary to Say the Truth Without Falling Into the Trap of Interethnic Hatred
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
lan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC arrived in Goma on Tuesday 15 January 2008, to support the Kivu's conference on peace, security and development. He gave an address to the conference participants, before individually meeting many important conference ... more
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Nkunda's Rebel Group Spells Out Demands
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
he insurgency led by dissident general Laurent Nkunda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spelt out its demands at a peace conference to end the conflict in the troubled North and South Kivu provinces in the east, where, according to the UN, insecurity and human rights abuses have... more
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New UN Envoy Takes Up Duties
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
lan Doss, the new top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has taken up his duties in the vast African ... more
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New UN Envoy Meets With President, Officials
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
lan Doss, the new United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has met with the country's President and other officials on issues of peace, security and development in the strife-torn ... more
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Over 500,000 People Displaced Last Year, Says UN
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
ore than a half a million people have been displaced in the past 12 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mainly due to fighting between Government and rebel groups in the country's volatile northeast, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said ... more
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DRC-RWANDA: Government says 30 percent of FDLR are Congolese, calls on them to disarm
Topix - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Some Congolese children have been conscripted - we have a duty to implement this plan [disarmament] because 30 percent of the 6,000 FDLR members are our children" GOMA, 15 January 2008 - A senior government official in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed that about... more
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Rwandese Barred From Joining UPDF
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
HE nationwide recruitment of new UDPF soldiers entered the second day yesterday with a stern warning to Congolese and Rwandese not to offer themselves as prospective ... more
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Journalist Arrested And Jailed Following Publication of Articles Critical of Mining Ministry
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
aurice Kayombo, a journalist with "Les Grands Enjeux", a monthly investigative magazine printed in South Africa and distributed in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, has been detained for the past week in a holding cell of the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court. Officially, the journalist has been charged with blackmail and "disparaging an official"... more
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Investigative Journalist Arrested After Being Invited to Ministry of Mines
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
eporters Without Borders today called on the authorities to explain how Maurice Kayombo, an investigative reporter for the privately-owned monthly Les Grands Enjeux, came to be detained. Arrested on 9 January while interviewing the secretary-general of the ministry of mines in his office, he has been charged with blackmail and... more
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New UN Rep Meets PM Gizenga
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
r. Alan Doss, the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, continues his contacts with high ranking DRC authorities. After meeting DRC president Mr. Joseph Kabila on Saturday 12 January last, Mr. Doss met Prime Minister Mr. Antoine Gizenga and Senate president Mr. Kengo Wa Dondo... more
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Govt Says Some Rwandan Rebels Are Congolese
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
senior government official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed that about 30 percent of members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which has been active in eastern DRC for more than a decade, were actually Congolese citizens, and called on them to... more
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Pangea Blazes a Supply Trail to Developing Congo Diamond Mines
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
NVESTMENT banking sounds relatively mundane compared with leading a convoy of 17 trucks with earth movers, mining equipment and fuel through three countries to develop a high-value diamond mine in the middle of the ... more
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Rebels seek talks with govt to end insurgency in Congo
Topix - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
p> B IDDING to end fighting in the violence-torn east, Congolese Tutsi rebels have called for direct negotiations with the government and the return of an exiled political opposition leader, reports said. via Guardian Newspapers ... more
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National Assembly Adopts Decentralisation Law
allAfrica.com - Monday, January 14, 2008
n 11 January 2007, the DRC National Assembly adopted the decentralization law, which defines the functioning of the new DRC territorial entities, or provinces. Of the 348 deputies present, the law was adopted by a very large majority of ... more
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Government Says DRC Invitation Was 'Undiplomatic'
allAfrica.com - Monday, January 14, 2008
wanda did not attend the ongoing conference of DR Congo belligerents because the Congolese invitation did not follow the established diplomatic channels, the Foreign Affairs Minister said on ... more
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