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Vagina Monologues author fights DRC atrocities
Topix - Monday, August 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"How do I tell you of girls as young as nine raped by gangs of soldiers, of women whose insides were blown apart by rifle blasts and whose bodies now leak uncontrollable streams of urine and faeces?" Regulars Interact Verena Dobnik New York, United States 23... more
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Congo waits sceptically for the lights to come on
Topix - Monday, August 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The high tension lines pass straight through the middle of Western Kasai, they give power to neighboring countries, but Western Kasai still doesn't have electricity. It's holding up development" From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting... more
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Villagers threatened by hungry elephants
Topix - Saturday, August 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We envisage finding technical solutions, like barriers sufficiently solid to stop the elephants getting to villages and fields. But for the time being we are limiting ourselves to compensation" By Christian Tsoumou Brazzaville - Herds of elephants are trampling crops and polluting water sources in eastern... more
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Conservation in a conflict zone: Mystery of the murdered gorillas
Topix - Friday, August 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There are a lot of problems within the park, a lot of people living and trying to work inside the park." They are the latest victims of the chaos in Congo: nine mountain gorillas slaughtered in an apparently motiveless crime. via The Belfast Telegraph ... more
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10,000 Congolese Flee After Unrest
allAfrica.com - Thursday, August 23, 2007
RESH unrest in the eastern Congolese province of North Kivu has forced over 10,000 people to flee to the border district of ... more
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SA pledges to help DRC
Topix - Thursday, August 23, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We come to this work because of the necessity that the DRC succeeds at playing its role on the continent. DRC must take its place in the process of regenerating Africa." South Africa's president pledged on Tuesday to help Congo with advisers and aid - a... more
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SA's Mbeki arrives in DRCongo
Topix - Wednesday, August 22, 2007
p> South African President Thabo Mbeki has arrived in Kinshasa for a working visit aimed at boosting relations between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo . via Sunday Times ... more
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Congo commutes death sentences
Topix - Tuesday, August 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Ten years have been taken off sentences ranging from 21 to 30 years" Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso has commuted the sentences of 17 people on death row to life terms in a sweeping pardon to mark the country's national day, according to a statement. ... more
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Central Africa: Uganda Invites Congo to Oil-Sharing Talks
Topix - Monday, August 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Actually, the current attacks can only be handled by the political leadership." The Ugandan army has confirmed that it is deploying heavily along the common border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and that it has asked for permission to cross the border to stem insecurity... more
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Congo leader son fails in gag bid
Topix - Sunday, August 19, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The High Court ruling is a spectacular victory for the right of Congo's citizens to know about how public officials are managing their country's wealth and for freedom of speech in general" The president has dismissed other graft probes as racist An attempt by the son... more
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Southern African leaders launch rapid intervention force
Topix - Saturday, August 18, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This scourge of conflicts in Africa constitutes a major impediment for social and economic development" Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Joseph Kabila and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe attend a parade at Zambiaa?'s Air force base in Lusaka on the 2nd day of the 27th... more
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President's Son Fails to Keep Incriminating Information From Public
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 17, 2007
he London High Court on 15th August dismissed attempts by the Republic of Congo President's son, Denis Christel Sassou-Nquesso, to gain an injunction for the removal of a set of documents from the Global Witness website which displayed "secret personal ... more
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UN-assisted Returnees To Burundi Tops 350,000
Topix - Friday, August 17, 2007
p> Friday, 17 August 2007, 2:17 pm Press Release: United Nations Over the past five years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has helped over 350,000 Burundian refugees return to their homes, under ... via Scoop ... more
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Country Looks to Congo-Brazzaville for Much Needed Petrol
allAfrica.com - Friday, August 17, 2007
amibia is working towards relieving motorists from the heavy burden of high fuel ... more
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Congo to contribute troops for Darfur
Topix - Thursday, August 16, 2007
p> Congo will contribute troops to a hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur, President Denis Sassou Nguesso said on Wednesday. via Independent Online ... more
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President's Son Loses Graft Court Case
allAfrica.com - Thursday, August 16, 2007
he High Court in London has dismissed an attempt by Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, son of the president of the Republic of Congo, to have documents linking him to allegations of corruption removed from the website of the anti-corruption group Global ... more
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High Court Blocks Bid by Leader's Son to Bury Evidence of 'Secret' Payments
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, August 15, 2007
he London High Court has dismissed an attempt by a top official of the Republic of Congo, an oil-rich yet poor African country, to stop anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness from publishing evidence that suggests he made 'secret personal profits' from sales of state ... more
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As other firms exit, phone companies enter Sudan
Topix - Wednesday, August 15, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We expect aggressive growth in the next three to five years" By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Bright yellow banners sprang up overnight along the banks of the Nile then spread along the ten-lane highways and crowded market streets of Sudan's traffic-clogged capital, Khartoum. ... more
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Minority Groups 'Exploited' in Recent Elections
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, August 15, 2007
aulin Mossoke, a young member of the indigenous Baka community in the Republic of Congo, had high expectations when he registered to vote during recent elections - instead he was left full of ... more
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CONGO: Indigenous people 'exploited' in recent elections
IRIN - Wednesday, August 15, 2007
RAZZAVILLE Wednesday, August 15, 2007 (IRIN) - Paulin Mossoke, a young member of the indigenous Baka community in the Republic of Congo, had high expectations when he registered to vote during recent elections – instead he was left full of disappointment. ... more
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