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Unicef Estimates 1,000 Children Remain Active in Warfare
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
s violence flared in the troubled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today said an estimated 1,000 young people remain involved in fighting across the ... more
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DRC fighting imperils gorillas
Topix - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"For three months now we have been totally unable to do our job due to the senseless fighting" Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has isolated rare mountain gorillas, leaving their state unknown and welfare uncared for in three months, an animal charity has... more
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AirDC Takes to the Skies Early 2008
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 03, 2007
he new airline is a creation of the Brussels Airlines Group and Hewa Bora Airways Group, one of DR Congo's leading airlines with regional and domestic services based in Barumbi, ... more
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Maniema - People Living With Aids (PLA) Call On Authorities to Act
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 03, 2007
ollowing the example of other DRC provinces, Maniema celebrated World Aids Day On 1 December 2007. The day was an occasion for people living with HIV/Aids to challenge leaders to fight this plague that devastates the ... more
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Army Attacks Rebels
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 03, 2007
oncern is growing over the fate of an estimated 30,000-40,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nyanzale in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after mobile phone communications between the town and the provincial capital of Goma were cut on 3 December, the UN ... more
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Congo army attacks rebel base after town falls
Topix - Monday, December 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Nkunda took Kikuku and Nyanzale, and the population has all fled. It's empty." Congo's army attacked a stronghold of renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda on Monday, a day after his men seized a strategic town from the government and forced out thousands of civilians, U.N. officials... more
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RIGHTS-DRC: Civilians Face Horrific Sexual Violence
Topix - Monday, December 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We need for instance, to look at referring situations of grave incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence to the International Criminal Court [in The Hague]" UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 - Humanitarian workers and U.N. experts say that extreme sexual violence is being used... more
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UN Congo Force Praises Country
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 03, 2007
HE United Nations peacekeeping forces in DR Congo have commended the Ugandan Government for repatriating Congolese rebels and ... more
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Gen Nkunda Must Leave, Says U.S. Government
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 03, 2007
he days for dissident General Laurent Nkunda as a thorn in the region may be numbered because the US government now backs military pressure that should eventually force him out of the country, RNA ... more
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Sixteen Dead In Ebola Outbreak
Topix - Sunday, December 02, 2007
p> Health officials say an outbreak of Ebola has killed 16 people in western Uganda during the past three weeks. via The Post Chronicle ... more
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CONGO: Disease rife amid capital's rubbish chaos
Topix - Sunday, December 02, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"In an environment where dustbins and human excreta lie next to wells, it is safe to say that people are not using safe water and diarrhroeal diseases are present" The lack of municipal waste disposal services in the Republic of Congo's capital has led to a... more
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Rice to Tackle African Conflicts
Topix - Saturday, December 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We can't confirm that Otti is dead" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hopes to try to cool several explosive African conflicts and shore up faltering peace deals when she travels next week to Ethiopia, headquarters of the African Union, the State Department said Friday. In... more
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Helsinki Process: Pushing For Progress in the Great Lakes Region
Topix - Saturday, December 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"As it is now, the insecurity has made some of the countries in the region unattractive, and we want to change all that." DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 29 - Continued strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo has dealt a blow to those hoping for peace... more
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Congo's Crown of Thorns
Topix - Friday, November 30, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"All of their children are combatants" BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo - This is a town of stomach-jarring dirt streets, and fences topped with concertina wire, and charming lake vistas, and wandering goats, and burning trash, and cock ... via New York Sun ... more
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Civilians Face Horrific Sexual Violence
allAfrica.com - Friday, November 30, 2007
umanitarian workers and U.N. experts say that extreme sexual violence is being used systematically as a weapon of war and terror in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the international community sits by and ... more
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Doa Hazel Scott Leaves Monuc
allAfrica.com - Friday, November 30, 2007
ONUC Director of Administration (DOA) Hazel Scott left the mission this week after 27 months in the DRC. Ms. Scott will now retire in Pretoria, South Africa, after 38 years of loyal service to the United ... more
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UN: ICC Needs Backing to Bring Justice for War Crimes
Human Rights Watch - Friday, November 30, 2007
Secretary-General to Address ICC Meeting at UN Headquarters
The United Nations secretariat and the 105 states that have joined the International Criminal Court should step up support for the court so that it can bring justice for war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today as the ICC opens its annual meeting... more
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U.S.'s Rice to visit Ethiopia in rare Africa trip
Topix - Friday, November 30, 2007
p> U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Ethiopia next week for meetings on the conflicts in the volatile African Great Lakes region and Sudan and Somalia, said the State Department on Thursday. via AlertNet ... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Campaign Against Sexual Violence in South Kivu
Topix - Friday, November 30, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Right now, a number of cases remain unattended because of inaccessibility of some areas and poor legal response" A campaign to combat gender violence is under way in South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo , a province that has become notorious for the... more
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UN Force Commander Urges Peaceful Resolution to Clashes in East
allAfrica.com - Friday, November 30, 2007
he Force Commander of the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) today urged a peaceful resolution of clashes in the country's troubled eastern region, but said his troops stood ready to support Government efforts to resolve the problem militarily if ... more
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