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The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) plans to step up its strength at Gemena in the northwest to stop tribal strife getting worse, MONUC chief Alan Doss said Wednesday.
Aid deployed so far for tens of thousands of refugees who fled ethnic violence in DR Congo into Congo-Brazzaville is not enough to meet their needs, the United Nations warned Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will join the global community in observance of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence from Nov. 25 through Dec. 10. To highlight the plight of women and girls affected by violence, USAID will host the exhibition Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo.
The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs warned that peacekeepers should not participate in joint operations with the Congolese Army for fear of putting them at risk of violating international humanitarian law.
BRAZZAVILLE, 9 December 2009 (IRIN) - Aid agencies have been unable to fully meet the needs of tens of thousands of people who have fled inter-communal clashes over natural resources in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
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 ...
More than two years after being evacuated following the 2007 killings of their mothers, mountain gorilla babies Ndakasi and Ndeze this week returned home to the Democratic Republic of Congo, moving into a new custom-built forest sanctuary.
All matches at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates PLAYOFF Wednesday, Dec. 9 Auckland City (New Zealand) 2, Al Ahli (UAE) 0 QUARTERFINALS Friday, Dec. 11 TP Mazembe (Congo) vs. Pohang Steelers (South Korea) Saturday, Dec. 12 Auckland City (New Zealand) vs. Atlante (Mexico) SEMIFINALS Tuesday, Dec. 15 TP Mazembe-Pohang Steelers winner vs. Estudiantes (Argentina) Wednesday, Dec. 16 Auckland City ...
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.
Chuck Thompson's new book "To Hellholes and Back," takes readers to frightening, uncomfortable places.
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 ...
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