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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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Strife-Torn Pool Slowly Waking Up to HIV/Aids
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
s the republic of Congo's Pool region in the south of the country slowly emerges from years of civil war, the lack of health services, ongoing insecurity and logistics problems have made it extremely difficult for HIV-positive people to access care and ... more
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Transport Problems Halt Gun-Retrieval Scheme
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
gun-retrieval effort launched in November 2005 in the Republic of Congo has been suspended because the agency involved has run into transport difficulties, an official of the government body ... more
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Angolan Consul Appeals Youths for Country's Reconstruction
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ngola's General Consul to Point Noire, Congo-Brazzaville, Fernado Ãlvaro Eduardo, Thursday called on Angolan youths residing in neighbouring country for engagement in activities conducive to the country's quick ... more
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Govt, Agencies Welcome Decision to Make Rebel Group Political Party
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he government and humanitarian agencies in the Republic of Congo have welcomed a decision by a former rebel leader to transform his armed group into a political party, saying they hoped it would help restore peace to the administrative department of the Pool, scene of several civil wars between 1998... more
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Japan Helps Disarmament Effort
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he Japanese government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed an agreement whereby Tokyo will provide a US$2 million grant to help the Republic of Congo's gun retrieval agency carry out its ... more
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Mediate in Congo Conflict, NGO Urges UN
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he NGO Refugees International (RI) says it has asked UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to engage a "senior diplomat" to mediate in the Republic of Congo which has been wracked by decades of ethnic ... more
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Cemac to Plead Bozize's Case for Recognition
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
epublic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has said that the regional Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States, known by its French acronym CEMAC, would plead the case for recognition for the new government in the Central African Republic ... more
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UN Rushes Relief Flight to War-Torn Pool Region
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he United Nations has rushed a relief flight carrying tents, blankets and other basic necessities to help ease the severe humanitarian crisis in the Pool region in southwestern Republic of Congo - a desolate, battle-scarred area which has been sacked and looted by ... more
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NGO Appeals for Hundreds More Primary School Teachers in Pool
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
local NGO in the Republic of Congo has launched an urgent appeal for an increase in primary school teachers in the war-weary southern department of Pool, where a year of fighting caused tens of thousands of people to flee the region, while fighting trapped many ... more
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Brazzaville Rejects Rebel Leader's Demands
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he government of the Republic of Congo has rejected demands made in late January by the rebel Ninja leader, the Rev Frederic Bitsangou, alias Pastor Ntoumi, saying they were above and beyond a 17 March 2003 accord meant to restore peace to the country's southeastern Pool ... more
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Ex-Rebel Leader Launches Arms Recovery Drive
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
n an effort to reign in his militia and improve national security, former rebel leader Frédéric Bitsangou launched a drive on Monday to recover all guns in his fiefdom: the Pool Department of the Republic of ... more
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Ex-Rebels Attack UN Convoy
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
group of former rebels, known as the Ninjas, fired guns into the air and held a grenade to the face of a UNESCO official during an attack on a UN convoy in the southern part of the Republic of Congo, a UN official told IRIN on ... more
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UN Agency to Begin Repatriation of Thousands to Equateur
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he first 100 of some 58,000 refugees who had been living in the Republic of Congo (ROC) in the past six years are due to begin returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Equateur Province on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the UN refugees agency, UNHCR, ... more
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Minister Condemns Looting During Army-Rebels Clash
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
minister in the Republic of Congo has condemned looting that took place last week in a southern suburb of the capital, Brazzaville, during fighting between the army and rebels known as the ... more
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Civil War Cause of Massive Displacement, Food Shortage
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ears of civil war in the Republic of Congo (ROC) has resulted in massive population displacement, food shortages and an increase in severe malnutrition, a government official said on ... more
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