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• UN ends criticised Congo campaign

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month. Alan Doss told the UN Security Council that the campaign in the east of the country had "largely achieved" its goal of weakening the Rwandan Hutu rebels. The operation was ...
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• Obama’s Special Envoy Pressures Kinshasa to Deliver Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC

  
  uganda — Authority: 114
  Bosco ntaganda: Ituri and KIvu War Criminal An arrest warrant for Ntaganda has been issued from the ICC prosecutor for crimes committed in Ituri, where he was the close contact of Thomas Lubanga, who is currently in detention in The Hague. Nkundabatware was never asked to hand Ntaganda over while Ntaganda still ...
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• DR Congo: Future of Peacekeeping Tied to Future of the Country

  
  Refugees International blogs — Authority: 414
  In two weeks the existing mandate for the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) will expire, and UN Security Council will make an important decision about the future of the mission, and the trajectory of UN involvement in this volatile country. read more
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• The Union of Patriots Resistance for the Total Liberation of Congo (UPR)

  
  uganda — Authority: 114
  The Union of Patriots Resistance for the Total Liberation of Congo (UPR) Considering the serious political situation currently prevailing in the DRC as a whole and particularly in the province of Equateur, a Policy Consultation was held in London from 05 to 07 December 2009 by the Policy Directorate of the Union of ...
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• DR Congo: UN, Congo Army and Rebels - articles from the past 2 weeks

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  Letter Seeking Peace in Congo Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: November 25, 2009 KHARTOUM, Sudan — A new United Nations report says that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions of dollars in gold ...
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• Rwanda New Killing Fields in DR Congo

  
  uganda — Authority: 114
  The international media has completely blacked out this story, reporting only an ethnic conflict over fishing rights. Faced with almost two months of suppressing information about the Dongo crisis in Equateur, MONUC is faced with the prospect of full disclosure–or launching another massive campaign of damage control ...
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• Former British soldier faces death by firing squad in Congo

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Former British soldier, Joshua French, is facing death by firing squad in the DR Congo after losing his appeal against a murder conviction.
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• International court rules Bemba to stay in jail

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  By MIKE CORDER (AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International Criminal Court appeals judges on Wednesday reversed a decision to release former Congo Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba from custody, ordering him to stay in jail until his trial. The court in August ordered Bemba freed, saying he would otherwise spend too ...
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• DR Congo: Zero Tolerance for Sexual Violence

  
  Refugees International blogs — Authority: 414
  Refugees International wrote in a September 2009 field report that sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had increased since the start of the government-led “Kimia II” military operations against the FDLR rebel group. When Refugees International Advocate Camilla Olson and I were in South Kivu ...
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• Irresponsible DR Congo HIV/AIDS journalism in Le Monde

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  Dear Elise Vincent, Im not sure who you are, but if you are going to report on health statistics , it would be a great idea to learn a) how to find them, and b) how to source and interpret them. I am shocked and amazed to learn that, although UNAIDS reports HIV/AIDS prevalence for ages 15-49 at 5.4% in Uganda and ...
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• Bosco Ntaganda Starts New Rebel Group in DR Congo

  
  uganda — Authority: 114
  Nearly a year after being installed in a senior position in the Congolese armed forces, former rebel-general Bosco Ntaganda has formed with others the Front for the Liberation and Emancipation of the Congo (FLEC). Bosco Ntaganda The group has not started war, but is institutionalizing control over regions of ...
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• How gold pays for Congo’s deadly war - 60 Minutes [Video]

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 419
  Watch CBS News Videos Online The International Rescue Committee is a lifeline to millions of people in Congo’s violence-torn villages .  This past summer, CBS’ 60 Minutes traveled with the IRC to remote camps in North Kivu that shelter thousands of people displaced by recent fighting. With IRC’s help, ...
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• I’ll tell what I’m thankful for: ADORABLE BABY...

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 528
  I’ll tell what I’m thankful for: ADORABLE BABY GORILLAS STILL BEING NOT EXTINCT AND ALL PLAYING TOGETHER AND BEING SO SUPER HELLA CUTE. Ugh, humans are so wrong for so long. Not to mention that these are orphaned babies who should be with their group but aren’t because the adults were probably killed in ...
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• Two days with Dr. Mukwege in Stockholm

  
  Stockholm College — Authority: 122
  MKFC Stockholm College is now working actively with a project initiated by Dr Mukwege , through the international network Yennenga Progress , to train trauma treatment to a large number of local health care workers all over DR Congo with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as the method carried out with ICT. Monday ...
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• DR Congo warlords trial to open at ICC

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  The trial of two alleged Congolese militia leaders charged with war crimes is due to begin at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui are accused of directing an attack on a village in 2003 in which more than 200 people were killed. They face charges of ordering ...
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• Malaria Kills Millions Every Year in Africa

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 433
  Malaria is one of the 21st century’s great plagues. It is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths per year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to eradicate the disease are mounting: in the year 2000, just 3% of children under 5, in sub-Saharan Africa, slept with mosquito nets; by 2008, that ...
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• Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  There have been many warnings by policymakers that rising temperatures in Africa could lead to civil conflict, however a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to uncover empirical evidence for these warnings and quantify them. The results—that higher temperatures increased the ...
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• DR Congo:The Trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui

  
  uganda — Authority: 114
  Germain Katanga, who faces war crime charges Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, who faces war crime charges The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui The trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui will start on Tuesday, 24 November, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. (The Hague ...
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• Ignace Arrest

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 115
  Wasnt Ignace Murwanashyaka arrested in Germany before? Or maybe Im just thinking of when he left the DRC. Either way, the President of the FDLR is now under arrest in Germany for human rights abuses and may be tried under German law. Someone mentioned today a report that I havent read discussing the contributions ...
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• Rwanda seeks extradition of rebel leaders

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 635
  Download audio file (1118094.mp3) Download MP3 The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, the FDLR, is a group made up of former Rwandan Hutus who fled to the neighboring DR Congo after the 1994 genocide. The BBC’s Peter Greste reports on the connection between some of the ongoing violence in eastern ...
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