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Vcom Touts ...
Topix - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
p> As at December 31, 2007, Vodacom Group recorded 33.0 million customers across its networks operating in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Mozambique, reflecting a 4.7% ... via Unstrung ... more
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Watchdogs hit William Jefferson (D-La) on ‘blood diamond’ trips
Topix - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"A member of Congress is not allowed to keep private business dealings from the public" Posted on 01/23/2008 3:59:54 AM PST by Libloather Watchdogs hit Jefferson on 'blood diamond' trips By Susan Crabtree Posted: 01/23/08 12:01 AM [ET] Rep. via Free Republic ... more
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Africa refugee pleads guilty to Salt Lake robbery
Topix - Monday, January 28, 2008
p> A refugee from Democratic Republic of the Congo has admitted to carjacking a vehicle last June and then robbing a fast-food restaurant days later, leading police on a high-speed chase. via Deseret Morning News ... more
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French foreign minister says France made political but not military errors in Rwandan genocide
Topix - Sunday, January 27, 2008
p> French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France made political but not military mistakes during the Rwandan genocide, defending the role of the French military during a visit aimed at mending diplomatic ... via PR-inside.com ... more
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Cargo jets collide in Congo
Topix - Sunday, January 27, 2008
p> The pilot and copilot of an Antonov 12 were badly hurt yesterday when the brakes failed on their cargo plane at Congo's Pointe-Noire airport and it rammed a Boeing 727, an airport official said. via Sunday Times ... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: UN Expert Urges Action to Help Women Victims of Violence
Topix - Saturday, January 26, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"We must support these grass-roots initiatives because that's how the country is going to be rebuilt." An independent United Nations expert today called for international action to help women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have been victimized by violence, including sexual abuse and... more
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Last night's TV: Medicine Men Go Wild
Topix - Friday, January 25, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Not a sausage, either literally or metaphorically" 'Respectful without being fawning' ... Medicine Men Gone Wild. Photograph: Channel 4 It must have been a eureka moment for whoever discovered Xand van Tulleken. via MediaGuardian.co.uk ... more
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"Silence" gives voice to Congo's rape victims
Topix - Thursday, January 24, 2008
p> If one of the roles of documentary film is to shock, educate and move people to action, then Lisa F. Jackson's "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" is more than doing its job. via XtraMSN Real Estate ... more
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UN: Despite Israel's promises, West Bank barriers have increased
Topix - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Continuation of the closures in the occupied territories will lead to further deterioration in the living conditions of 3.8 million Palestinians" Alongside the Consolidated Appeal to raise $462 million for the Palestinian population, the United Nations will release on Tuesday a particularly pessimistic report summarizing 2007... more
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Back Stage - It is The Spinal Column of the Congo
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
ongo River, au-delà des Tenebres (2005) a.k.a The Congo: River of Grace, Water of Life showed Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Maru-a-Pula School, A/V Centre (Gaborone Film ... more
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Congo crisis kills 45k a month
Topix - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"We hope this week's peace agreement in North Kivu will mean an end to the hostilities and a restart of reconciliation and recovery efforts" WAR, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in... more
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Armed groups in east DR Congo ready for ceasefire
Topix - Monday, January 21, 2008
p> DRC government soldiers stand at the back of a jeep in Sake, 2007. Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern Nord-Kivu province were ready Monday to sign a ceasefire and troop withdrawal deal, ... via TurkishPress.com ... more
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British Asylum System 'Prejudice Against Rape Victims'
Topix - Sunday, January 20, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"This still isn't the end, I still need to try and find my children and husband." A woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo recounts her experience of being raped, in a case separate from that mentioned in the story. via The Epoch Times... more
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Kabila's half-sister murdered
Topix - Saturday, January 19, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Police on patrol in the area were informed of the incident, rushed to the scene and caught them red-handed." Kinshasa - A half-sister of President Joseph Kabila has been murdered by intruders at her home in Kinshasa, a human rights group in the Democratic Republic of... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Nkunda's Rebel Group Spells Out Demands
Topix - Friday, January 18, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"The authorities of our country must have reasonable [and] unwavering determination to rid Kivu in particular and our country in general of these genocidal forces" The insurgency led by dissident general Laurent Nkunda in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spelt out its demands at a... more
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Warid Telecom Launches
allAfrica.com - Thursday, January 17, 2008
NITED Arab Emirates' Warid Telecom this week unveiled its services in Congo Brazzaville to become the nation's third phone operator, less than a week after its launch in ... more
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Kabila's half-sister killed in DRC
Topix - Thursday, January 17, 2008
p> A half-sister of President Joseph Kabila has been murdered by intruders at her home in Kinshasa, a human rights group in the Democratic Republic of Congo said today. via Sunday Times ... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Over 500,000 People Displaced in Last Year, Says UN
Topix - Thursday, January 17, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Such an overwhelming level of new displacement is very worrying" More than a half a million people have been displaced in the past 12 months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , mainly due to fighting between Government and rebel groups in the country's volatile... more
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'Give Kabila's killers amnesty'
Topix - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Lawmakers should discuss this case. They legislate and need to realise that the assassination of a head of state is a political crime, and if they don't want to, we ask them for a retrial" Lawyers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday argued that... more
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Plague, still a major threat to world
Topix - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Plague may not match the so-called - big three' diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), in numbers of current cases, but it far exceeds them in pathogenicity and rapid spread under the right conditions" WASHINGTON: A new study has revealed that plague, which is often considered to be... more
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