Republic of Congo

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• HRW Report on Congo: Fetuses Ripped From Wombs and Children Burned

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 436
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• Rwandan And French Leaders to Discuss Improvement of Bilateral Ties

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  Barely two weeks after Rwanda and France reconciled, Rwandan President Paul Kagame is expected on Wednesday to meet his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on the sidelines of a regional conference. Kagame will be making his first visit to France since 1994 and their talks, according to reliable sources are to center ...
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• Rape and the Congo

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 618
  Mary Lou Hartman, a documentary filmmaker, had a compelling piece in the Washington Post this weekend about how her own rape a few years ago has propelled her to activism on behalf of women in the Congo, where violating women’s bodies in the most horrifying ways is a daily atrocity. The war in Congo has been ...
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• Rape as a Weapon of War in the Congo

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 140
  Mary Lou Hartman, a documentary filmmaker, had a compelling piece in the Washington Post this weekend about how her own rape a few years ago has propelled her to activism on behalf of women in the Congo, where violating women’s bodies in the most horrifying ways is a daily atrocity. The war in Congo has been going ...
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• UN: Act to End Atrocities in Eastern Congo

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 679
  (New York) - The United Nations Security Council should urgently act to protect civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from further atrocities by government and rebel forces and ensure peacekeepers are not implicated in abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. read more
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• Advent devotion - December 13, 2009

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 133
  Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14–20 “On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak. The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a ...
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• CONGO: ‘Rape is a combat strategy’

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 418
  Photo: Kevin Sites, hotzone.yahoo.com “Rape is not just a by-product of the conflict in Congo; it is a combat strategy systematically used to terrorize and humiliate and it cannot be tolerated to achieve a larger military goal.”   - Sarah Spencer, who directs the IRC’s sexual violence aid and prevention ...
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• Appfrica Shows A Connection Between Coltan Mining And Crisis Areas In DRC

  
  TechMasai — Authority: 122
  The crisis in DRC is horrible, we even wrote a post earlier detailing how Coltan the stuff which makes electronic stuff is fueling the conflict. A few days ago the guys behind Appfrica, made a picture visualization of the correlation between Coltan mining and the conflicts. Coltan Mashing up some data from ...
  6 days ago

• Urban Agriculture: A Response to Food Insecurity? Lubumbashi city, Democratic Republic of Congo

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Guinea pig keepers in the North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by Neil Palmer. Larger image here. By Nyumbaiza Tambwe Conference paperKMAfrica 2009 Dakar Excerpts: Introduction The paper attempts to establish a relationship between urban agriculture and food security. In other words, it ...
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• Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao on March 13th

  
  iHipHop — Authority: 150
  Manny Pacquiao will allegedly fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. on March 13th in the biggest fight of this generation.  The fight has yet to be officially announced, though reports are rampant that everything is settled and that they are now just looking for a location for the fight (The rumors have been swirling for about ...
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• Rape and murder, funded by cell phones

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 623
  Rape victims wait for treatment at hospital. Sasha Lezhnev and John Prendergast Special to CNN Last year, the bus in which a young Congolese woman we met named Mary was riding was stopped by a militia. "They wanted to all have me, to rape me," she related haltingly to us. "I told them no, and then they took ...
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• President of DR Congo Hails “significant Progress” Made in Peace Process

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila,has hailed the progress made as part of the ongoing peace process in his country, in his state of the nation address before the two houses of parliament held at the Palace of the People in Kinshasa. Mr. Kabila mentioned the case of eastern DRC, ...
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• Congo: “A deep sadness inside” [16 Days]

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 418
  Photo: Courtesy Kevin Sites hotzone.yahoo.com   From November 25 to December 10, the International Rescue Committee is observing the “16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence .” You can read all of our 16 Days blog posts here . Tens of thousands of women and girls have been raped, sexually assaulted, ...
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• “We are forced to flee every two months”: IRC in HuffPost

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 418
  People in eastern Congo’s camps live in small crude shelters made from straw, cardboard and tree branches. Photo: Peter Biro/The IRC. On Dec 5, The Huffington Post published an article by the IRC’s Peter Biro describing the miserable situation for people uprooted by armed clashes in eastern Democratic Republic ...
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• Advent devotion - December 6, 2009

  
  Swords into Plowshares — Authority: 133
  Scripture: Luke 1:68–79 When I was young, I saw only a few Christian churches. Today, the number has increased dramatically. When I consider the aim of Christ’s coming and the purpose of the church, I imagine a world where people live in love, justice, and uprightness. Unfortunately, I see much violence in the ...
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• An act to end violence

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 489
  At a center for rape recovery, Congolese women learn new skills, such as sewing, so that they will be able to support themselves when they return to their homes. Photo by Liz Lucas/Oxfam America Violence in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown worse in the last year—a consequence of the ...
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• Teenage Girls Guide To Surviving Sex Slavery

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 130
  Following on from my post last week about the V-Day meeting calling for an end to sexual violence in the Congo, I just wanted to share this video. In it Eve Ensler performs her piece, inspired by the women of the Congo, entitled ‘Teenage Girls Guide To Surviving Sex Slavery’. It will most definitely be [...]
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• How gold pays for Congo’s deadly war - 60 Minutes [Video]

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 418
  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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• TONIGHT: Congo and the IRC on 60 Minutes

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 418
  Photo: Peter Biro/The IRC 60 Minutes recently traveled with the IRC to camps in North Kivu that shelter thousands of people displaced by fighting.  With IRC’s help, the TV crew took a close look at the humanitarian crisis and the root causes of Congo’s chronic violence.  The report is scheduled to air on CBS ...
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• Nelson Mandela fake foreword in Congo presidents book were his words

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of Congo-Brazzaville after he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the anti-apartheid leader.
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