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• Two days with Dr. Mukwege in Stockholm

  
  Stockholm College — Authority: 126
  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: 108
  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: 503
  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: 142
  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: 119
  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: 108
  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: 622
  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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• Atlante drawn to face Al Ahli-Auckland winner, possibly FC Barcelona

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  CONCACAF Champions League champion Atlante will play the winner between Egypt’s Al Ahli and Auckland City of New Zealand in its opening game at the Club World Cup in December. Thursday’s draw at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace set the pairings and schedule for the annual club championship December 9-19. Atlante ...
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• DR Congo: Asking MONUC to Speak Up

  
  Refugees International blogs — Authority: 116
  Public statements made by the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo, MONUC, have been the subject of much controversy in recent months. On October 28, a group of international agencies focusing on protection sent a letter to the top UN official in the country, Alan Doss. In the letter they criticized the ...
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• Ashley Judd: Please, Population Control Is Not the Answer for Congo

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 144
  Congos economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Why do these NGOs feel they have the right to regulate birth rates? Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. ...
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• MSF Says DR Congo Military Killed Civilians at Vaccination Clinics

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as far as to allege it was “used” as a means of luring large numbers of civilians to 7 different locations where Congolese ...
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• DR Congo War Criminal:Maj Gen James Kazini Killed

  
  uganda — Authority: 119
  DR Congo War Criminals War Criminal James Kazini, the former army commander, died Tuesday morning after his girlfriend, Lydia Draru, allegedly hit him with an iron bar. Family and security sources say that, the War Criminal was killed at his home in Namuwongo, a Kampala subur Lydia Draru, the lady in whose shanty ...
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• Armed villagers kill 47 policeman in DR Congo

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.
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• India announces $263-mn credit for Congo

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) India Thursday said it will offer $263 million line of credit for three projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also set up an IT excellence centre in the Central African country.This was decided in a meeting between the visiting Congo Foreign Minister, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, and ...
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• Jendayi E. Frazer’s Plan to Plunder and Pillage Africa

  
  uganda — Authority: 119
  Jendayi E. Frazer: Africas Recolonization Marchant The story of Tri-Star in Uganda is basically the same story of exploitation and destruction of nascent indigenous industries, plunder of abundant human and material resources and another example of how African governments have squandered the peoples´ resources in ...
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• Paul Kagame’s War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Crimes of Genocide

  
  uganda — Authority: 119
  Paul Kagame is responsible for the death of Rwandans,Congolese and Ugandans in Millions Athough the U.S. has been successful in preventing Kagame’s crew from being indicted at the ICTR, other courts have indicted Kagame and members of his retinue. In late 2007, French Judge Bruguiere indicted the assassins of ...
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• Dr Congo: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda Now!

  
  uganda — Authority: 119
  Bosco ntaganda: Ituri and KIvu War Criminal Bosco Ntaganda is accused of several war crimes and crimes against humanity including: the massacres of 150 people in the town of Kiwanja in 2008 in his duties as military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), torturing and killing ...
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• DR Congo, Kinshasa: millions have access to potable water because of unofficial distributors

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 127
  A World Bank study revealed that only 22% of the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo has access to potable water, although the picture is brighter in the capital, Kinshasa, where 41.5% of residents have water service. Serge Ikamba, former counselor in charge of infrastructure for the Ministry of Public ...
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• Arrest Yoweri Museveni for War Crimes

  
  uganda — Authority: 119
  What happened to the hundreds of children that were in NRA(Now UPDF) and sent to Mubende. Where are all those children that In 2005, escaped or were captured or released from the LRA and pressured to join Yoweri Museveni’s forces and fight the LRA. Where are they now? Why is Salim Saleh, a UPDF officer believed to ...
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