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India turns its eyes on Africa for energy needs; summit on April 8-9
Topix - Tuesday, April 08, 2008
p> As many as 15 heads of African Government including South African President Thabo Mbeki, Congo's President Joseph Kabila, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will ... via News Behind The News ... more
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Vermont College Welcomes Refugees
Topix - Monday, April 07, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"I feel I didn't belong there, when you go through stuff like that. ... I was damaged" When his family landed in Vermont three years ago, Rwandan refugee Jean-Luc Dushime didn't speak English. Now, he's in college on a full scholarship, and hopes to attend graduate... more
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Congo's blind entrepreneur
Topix - Sunday, April 06, 2008
p> A blind soap-maker in Congo's capital Brazzaville, isn't letting his disability get in the way of his career. via Reuters ... more
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Congo-Brazzaville: Vitamin A Campaign Targets Deficient Children
Topix - Saturday, April 05, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"The [health] campaign was a genuine success." At least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating vitamin deficiency in southwestern Congo. via AllAfrica.com ... more
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Vitamin A Drive Targets Children
allAfrica.com - Friday, April 04, 2008
t least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating vitamin deficiency in southwestern ... more
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Vitamin A Campaign Targets Deficient Children
allAfrica.com - Friday, April 04, 2008
t least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating vitamin deficiency in southwestern ... more
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Ugandan rebel leader postpones peace deal signing
Topix - Friday, April 04, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"The information we have now is that Kony's not sick but still walking to Ri-Kwangba" The fugitive leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels has delayed signing a peace deal meant to end one of Africa's longest conflicts until April 10, officials and sources involved in... more
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Transparency Campaigners Must Be Released Immediately and Unconditionally
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he Publish What You Pay (PWYP) International Coalition calls for the immediate release of Brice Mackosso and Christian Mounzeo, two of the leading human rights and transparency campaigners in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), who were arbitrarily detained last week. The Coalition now intends to take their case to the... more
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Leading Anti-Corruption Campaigner Detained Over Alleged Defamation
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
hristian Mounzeo, a leading campaigner against corruption in Congo Brazzaville and member of the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was arrested yesterday and accused of defaming the country's President. The arrest is the latest move in a campaign of judicial harassment against activists denouncing the looting of... more
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Exiled Soldiers Returning Home
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
eople on both sides of the Congo River are breathing sighs of relief following the repatriation of former soldiers back to Kinshasa. The combatants had spent eight years in exile in neighbouring ... more
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World Bank Grant to Help Disarm 30,000 Ex-Fighters
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he World Bank and the Republic of Congo (ROC) have signed an agreement for a US $17-million grant to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate 30,000 former combatants in the ... more
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ICRC Suspends Aid in Pool Region
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
orsening insecurity has forced the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to pull out of Pool, a troubled region in the Republic of the Congo ... more
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MSF Pulls Out of Pool Region
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ollowing several armed hold-ups during the last two months in the Republic of Congo's Pool region, the Dutch branch of Medècines Sans Frontiéres (MSF-Holland) has temporarily suspended its activities in the ... more
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International Committee for the Red Cross Resumes Activities in Pool Region
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has resumed its activities in the Pool region of the Republic of Congo following an improvement in the security situation there in the past few weeks, the agency announced on ... more
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Annan Praises Reconciliation At Weapons-Burning Ceremony
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
n the third leg of a trip to Africa, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today conferred with President Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo and attended a ceremony for the destruction of weapons, one of the landmarks on the Central African country's road to peace after a decade of... more
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Contract Awarded to Rebuild Brazzaville-Kinkala Road
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he government of the Republic of Congo (ROC) has awarded a contract to rebuild 72 km of road from the capital, Brazzaville, to Kinkala, the main town in the country's troubled southern Pool region, according Planning Minister Pierre ... more
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Pool May Be Excluded From 2007 Polls, Offical Says
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
oters in the Pool region in southern Republic of Congo may not be able to participate in the 2007 legislative elections because the former rebel group there is still armed and dangerous, a senior Congolese official has ... more
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Interview With Madeleine Yila Bompoto, Coordinator of Efforts to Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldiers
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ne of the consequences of 10 years of intermittent war in the Republic of the Congo (ROC) is the number of child soldiers who must now adapt to civilian life. With support from the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United States, a government programme in the country will work... more
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Cabinda Forum for Dialogue Team Returns to Brazzaville
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he delegation of the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FCD) left Namibe, Wednesday for Congo Brazzaville, after the signing of the memorandum of understanding for peace in Angola's northern Province, on Tuesday, ANGOP has ... more
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Pool Region Normalising, ICRC Says
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he humanitarian situation is finally normalising in the Republic of Congo's war-weary Pool region, according to the International Committee for the Red Cross ... more
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