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Ban proposes bigger UN budget to meet challenges
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Strengthening the U.N.'s capacity to step in -- to resolve conflicts earlier rather than later -- is among the smartest investments we can make" Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed on Thursday a rise to $4.2 billion in the U.N. budget for the next two years, calling this... more
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DRC: Hospital's Tale Reveals Missing Children, Brutalised Women
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Through this report we hope to create awareness and response which will help the country in building its own capacity" Long after fighting in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has largely subsided, civilian populations there continue to face high levels of violence... more
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Bush to Congratulate Kabila Personally on Elections
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
resident Bush's October 26 meeting with President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will provide an opportunity to underscore U.S. support for the DRC's "remarkable progress" since Kabila assumed office in 2001, including the country's historic 2006 elections, a State Department official ... more
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Force Against Gen Nkunda is Catastrophic - U.S. Think-Tank
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
very effort must be made to discourage the Congolese government and UN forces from pursuing a military solution to the problem of the dissident officers in North Kivu or else the whole region ends up in chaos, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has ... more
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Community Radio Stations Threatened By Botched Government Decree
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
eporters Without Borders today condemned information, press and communication minister Toussaint Tshilombo Send's announcement of a ban on around 40 TV and radio stations five days ago. It has had the effect of silencing four community radio stations based in Kinshasa, while around 200 other community radio stations throughout the... more
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Refugees From Equateur Province Stream Home - UN Agency
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
hanks to increased boat trips across the Oubangui river, more than 16,000 refugees have returned to their home districts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) Equateur province in the country's northwest so far this year, the United Nations refugee agency has ... more
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Caught in a Web of Clashes Between Armed Groups
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
t Masisi hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, ill and wounded women shifted uncomfortably in their beds as several men and youths in uniform picked at bandages covering their gunshot ... more
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Dissident General's Men Fail to Show Up
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
ome 200 men under the command of dissident Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) General Laurent Nkunda failed to show up at a centre for integrating armed groups into the regular army, a UN official said - a day after Nkunda's top aide announced their ... more
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Congo forces rape, kill Kabila opponents - Amnesty
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Far from protecting the people of the DRC, the state security services remain agents of torture and death" The Democratic Republic of Congo should reform its security forces and prosecute members accused of raping, murdering and torturing suspected opponents of President Joseph Kabila, Amnesty International said... more
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Africa: Is China annexing Africa?
Global Voices Online - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p> Is China annexing Africa?:” The latest project to hit the headlines is a $5 billion offer from the Chinese government to fund roads, railways, hospitals and clinics in the African Congo. Elsewhere, China is already “the biggest investor in the Sudan,” says the Seattle Times. In Freetown, the capital... more
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Govt Accuses Congo of Arming Rebels
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
he Congolese government army is collaborating with FDLR rebels and has lately increased its weaponry supplies to the Genocide force, a top aide to President Paul Kagame has ... more
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Congo general surrenders to army
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p> A rebel general in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, General Laurent Nkunda, has agreed to integrate 500 of his fighters into the army. via The London News.Net ... more
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Bush-Kabila Meet - May We Propose FDLR Repatriation On the Agenda?
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
or Rwanda at least, there is a presumed special bond between itself and the United States. The oldest modern democracy in the world-and the strongest-has been a good friend for the last 13 years to one of the world's youngest-and optimistic-democracies, ... more
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Hospital's Tale Reveals Missing Children, Brutalised Women
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
ong after fighting in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has largely subsided, civilian populations there continue to face high levels of violence from all sides, according to the global humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières ... more
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Country Arming FDLR - DR Sezibera
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
he Congolese government army is collaborating with FDLR rebels and has lately increased its weaponry supplies to the Genocide force, a top aide to President Paul Kagame has said. Dr Richard Sezibera, Kagame's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, has said that Congolese military commanders have continuously supplied the... more
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Rebel Leader to Integrate Forces in Army
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
issident General Laurent Nkunda, who has been battling government forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is set to hand over 200 men for integration into the regular army, a process he has so far bitterly ... more
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Rights Group Accuses Forces of Abuses
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
uman rights group Amnesty International accused Democratic Republic of the Congo security forces of serious human rights violations, including extra-judicial executions, in a report released ... more
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FINANCE: World Bank Confronts Pygmy Challenge Over Logging
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"In the near term there will be a meeting in Kinshasa and the bank has made it clear that we'd like to be guided by the Pygmy groups to make sure that we're being more effective in our consultations" The World Bank is scrambling to respond... more
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U.S. stepping up military training in Congo to help subdue rebels
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p> The United States is stepping up efforts to train Congo's military to help the government subdue rebel forces in the eastern part of the country, the State Department's senior official on African affairs ... via PR-inside.com ... more
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In Ituri, DRC, civilian populations are still subjected to sexual...
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Ituri: Civilians Still the First Victims", emphasizing the persistence of sexual violence as well as the direct humanitarian consequences of military operations in 2007 during a "pacification process" Source: Medecins Sans Frontieres - International Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article... more
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