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Chuck Thompson's new book "To Hellholes and Back" takes readers to frightening, uncomfortable places, including India, Mexico, the Congo and Disney World
I was thrilled to be the first member of my family to return to the Congo since my father's historic "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match in 1974 against George Foreman.
President Joseph Kabila on Monday vowed that "public order will be restored" in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where deadly tribal strife has erupted.
If you are in New York, you should see this: Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River FEATURING Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny WHAT SciCafe presents Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River, featuring Museum Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny. What strange new species lurk beneath? Join Museum Curator Melanie Stiassny, an ichthyologist who has been featured on ...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - Mazorro Resources Inc. ("Mazorro" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:MZO)(FRANKFURT:JAM) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement in principle (the"Agreement") with Congo Mining Company sprl ("CMC") of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC"). Under the terms of the Agreement, Mazorro has agreed to acquire a 100% interest in ...
UNITED NATIONS — A Nevada-based company's purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished United Nations report claims.
MOUND HOUSE, Nev.----Today the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo published its 2009 Final Report regarding the implementation of sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Two Norwegians who have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked Saturday for a presidential pardon, their lawyer said.
( WMR ) -- Noted Belgian expert on the history and politics of central Africa’s Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Dr. Filip Reyntjens of the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) in Antwerp, spoke at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington on December 3 and leveled a broadside on the policies of Rwanda’s ...
Kinshasa has sent a battalion of 600 commandos trained by Belgium to the northwest of the country to try to quell violence in the country's northwest, sources said on Sunday.
MONTREAL, CANADA--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - Bio-Solutions Corp. (OTCBB:BISU), is pleased to announce the signature of a Letter of Intent for the commercialization of GreenEx(TM) its main product targeting Malaria vectors in Democratic Republic of Congo. Vice prime Minister of DRC in charge of country reconstruction, Emile Bongely confirmed to Bio-Solutions Corp. his agreement to evaluate ...
Acclaimed travel writer Chuck Thompson wanted to find the biggest hellholes in the world for his latest book so he chose four places - the Congo, India, Mexico City and Disney World.
KAMPALA, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - An outbreak of meningitis that killed more than a dozen students from the same school last week has spread throughout the city of Kisangani, in central Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Monday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has given its assurances that two Norwegians will not be executed despite a court ruling upholding their death sentence for murder, Norway's government said Friday.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Two Norwegians sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for homicide and espionage will not be executed, Norway's foreign minister said Friday.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A South African diplomat was “seriously” injured after she was shot at by soldiers while driving in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo , earlier today, according to a foreign ministry spokesman.
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