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Thousands More Forced to Flee in North Kivu - UN
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
he United Nations refugee agency is concerned about tens of thousands of Congolese civilians who, having already been displaced due to recent clashes between Government forces and renegade troops in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have had to flee anew as gun battles erupted today between the two... more
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DRC-UGANDA: Cholera prompts evacuation of Lake Albert island
Topix - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We go to the toilet in the lake, which we also use for drinking and showering" Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered the partial evacuation of a disputed island in Lake Albert, where health workers are unable to tackle a cholera outbreak partly... more
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UPDF Kills Congolese 'Rebel'
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
suspected Congolese rebel was killed on Sunday in Kisoro district following a fire exchange between the UPDF and a group of thugs that crossed into the ... more
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Thousands Flee as Fighting Erupts Around Camps in East
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
ens of thousands of previously uprooted Congolese in five major displacement camps were forced to flee again Tuesday following the latest confrontation between government forces and suspected renegade troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ... more
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Cholera Prompts Evacuation of Lake Albert Island
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
uthorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have ordered the partial evacuation of a disputed island in Lake Albert, where health workers are unable to tackle a cholera outbreak partly because of security concerns linked to the discovery of ... more
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Thousands Flee Fighting in New Exodus
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p to 40,000 people poured out of two camps for displaced civilians near the main town in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province after fierce fighting broke out nearby, according to the ... more
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Congo refugees flee after attack near camp
Topix - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"They did this to show that (the army) is not capable of protecting the people. That was their objective" Thousands of refugees fled camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's violent North Kivu province on Tuesday after the army said Tutsi-dominated insurgents attacked its positions nearby.... more
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A Day of Reflection on "Security of the Prisons" Organized By Monuc
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
ONUC's Rule of Law Unit organized a day of reflection for the representatives of different ministries in Kinshasa, on 10 November 2007. The general theme of the conference was: "security of the ... more
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A President And a General Face Off
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
nstability continues to loom large in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with President Joseph Kabila having demanded that renegade General Laurent Nkunda disarm and reintegrate his approximately 5,000 troops into the national ... more
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Congo militia head Lubanga faces first ICC trial
Topix - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p> Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, accused of using child soldiers in his country's 1998-2003 war, will face trial in March 2008, the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court. via WNED.org ... more
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Troops Clash With DRC Dissident General's Troops
allAfrica.com - Monday, November 12, 2007
PDF troops have clashed with Congolese renegade General Gen. Laurent Nkunda's forces who had made an incursion into Uganda's western district of ... more
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DRC-RWANDA: Former child soldiers prepare to go home
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We no longer hear the sound of guns. We are free." Nine years after Burasa Kuzungu was forced to join the Forces Democratiques de la Liberation du Rwanda and become a child soldier, he managed to elude his captors and escape into the forest. via... more
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Congo Hundreds of thousands raped for being on the wrong side
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The women who come from there tell us that every woman in every village has been raped over the years. There is not one who was not attacked they told us" Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being used as an instrument... more
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[UMNS-ALL-NEWS] UMNS# 555-Commentary: Investing in life-sustaining...
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p> From NewsDesk Date Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:49:24 -0600 Commentary: Investing in life-sustaining education in Africa Nov. via Worldwide Faith News ... more
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DR Congo Agrees to Disarm Rebels
allAfrica.com - Monday, November 12, 2007
wanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have reached an agreement that will see the latter disarm and expel genocidal forces, grouped in what is known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda ... more
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Gorilla Diary: August - October 2007
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p> Earlier this year, armed men entered the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park and killed five critically endangered mountain gorillas at point-blank range, leaving the bodies where they fell. via BBC ... more
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Congo agrees with Rwanda to disarm Hutu rebels
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The government of Democratic Republic of Congo commits to launch military operations as a matter of urgency to dismantle the ex-FAR Interahamwe as a genocidal military organisation in the DRC" Congo has reached a deal with Rwanda to forcibly disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels on its soil... more
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D.R. of Congo: This is the sound of suprise
Global Voices Online - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p>Extra Extra's observations after returning to Congo : “I’m still reeling from returning to Congo to find Kinshasa flooded (for want of a bookshelf our library was lost), our neighbourhood hit by up to four power-cuts a day (candle sales are booming; my laptop battery is foutou), and a... more
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HIV Reached the U.S. via Haiti, According to a Genetic Study
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Our findings imply that Haiti has the oldest-known HIV/AIDS epidemic outside of sub-Saharan Africa, which helps explain the high prevalence of AIDS and HIV-1 among Haitians in the early 1980s" By Liz Highleyman HIV originally came to the U.S. from Haiti as early as the late... more
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LRA rebels hit by cholera
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"They are in a healing process" An outbreak of cholera has swept a camp housing Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army , infecting its leader Joseph Kony, his deputy Vincent Otti and scores of fighters, a spokesman said. via Sunday Times ... more
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