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Congo is the name applied to two states, the much larger Democratic Republic of Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa, after its capital, and formerly known as Zaire) and the Republic of Congo, whose capital is Brazzaville. They are in Central Africa, on either side of the Congo River, with their capitals only a few miles apart.

The Republic of Congo was a French colony until 1960, while the DRC was a personal possession of the Belgian King Leopold II, who oversaw a regime of notable savagery. It was then a colony of the Belgian state from 1908 to 1960, and after independence soon descended into conflict.

Since the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide spilled across its border in 1994 Congo-Kinshasa has endured two invasions and a civil war. After that discord officially ended in 2002, in 2008 an estimated 45,000 people a month were still dying as a result of internal conflict.  Unicef says that one in five children dies before the age of five, and 13 of every thousand pregnancies ends in death for the mother.

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• MONUC Expresses Serious Concern Over Death Threats

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 117
    PRESS RELEASE    MONUC Expresses Serious Concern Over Death Threats Received by BCNUDH staff and members of human rights organisations in Kalemie   Kinshasa, 30 December 2009 — MONUC is deeply concerned by recent death threats against members of the UN Joint Human Rights Office and of local ...
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• WORLD MAJOR EVENTS -Year in Review 2009

  
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  United Nations 2009 – a year when arctic ice was melting faster than ever before and multiple crises -food, energy, recession or pandemic flu – called for global cooperation on an unprecedented level. At the same time, peacekeepers served in missions around the world and the fight against hunger and poverty ...
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• Chevron Works On Joint Angola:Congo-Brazzaville Oil Zone For 2012 Output

  
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  Chevron Corp. (CVX) is currently working on a plan to produce from a field shared between Angola and the Republic of Congo in 2012, though start-up will depend on a revenue-sharing agreement between the two countries, a top company official said this month. In an interview during a visit at the Chevron compound ...
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• The Rape of The Congo Continues - Eve Ensler

  
  www.partizane.com — Authority: 128
  Eve is once more reporting from the Congo and wondering out loud when people, when the President are going to stop this atrocity. From Huffington Post I have been in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo for the month of December. Christmas at Panzi Hospital was overflowing with raped and tortured women. ...
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• UN-backed health insurance plan provides coverage for Refugees in DRC - Peoples Daily Online

  
  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler — Authority: 117
  UN-backed health insurance plan provides coverage for Refugees in DRC - Peoples Daily Online
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• Watch BRN TV Online Live Internet TV Stream News Channel from Congo free

  
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  Watch BRN TV Online Live TV Stream News Channel from Congo free.
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• Turkey says to go ahead with Ilisu dam construction

  
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  Source: Reuters * Govt to secure 300-350 mln euro loan from Turkish banks * Project failed to meet World Bank standards (Combines stories, adds background) By Zerin Elci ...
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• Whats A "Life Changer"?

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
    In Congo, a country where running water is non-existence for 99 percent of the population.  The village water source is a common meeting place.  Everyone goes there at least once or twice a day.  A village water source is like the corporate water cooler.  But mostly girls and women congregate at the ...
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• Republic Day Commemorated in the Republic of the Congo

  
  Holidays Around The World - Holidays Around The World — Authority: 134
  Republic Day: December 31, 2009Republic Day is a public holiday in the Congo.Republic Day is a holiday that is celebrated in Congo to reflect on the country’s history with pride.History of Republic DayThe Republic of the Congo (simply known as the Congo) is a country in Central Africa that is bordered by Gabon, ...
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• Text of United States Congress Bill S. 2125 [109th]: Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 137
  One Hundred Ninth Congress of the United States of America. AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held in the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, 2006. An Act, To promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ...
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• Underground Cisterns Are Covered and Padlocked

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
    Do you care if it rains?  Are you concerned when it does not rain frequently?  Do you know how many inches of water it rained?  Are you concerned about where the water goes?  If you lived in rural Congo, rainwater would mean a lots to you.  Rainwater can be captured in underground cisterns.  Large ...
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• Rare Rhinos Relocated In Effort To Keep Species Alive

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 165
  The northern white rhinoceros was hunted to extinction by poachers in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will breed. » E-Mail This      » Add to ...
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• United States: End Detention of Refugees for Failure to File Forms

  
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  Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arbitrarily detains refugees and holds them indefinitely for failing to meet paperwork requirements, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...
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• Flying To The Bulape Village Airstrip

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
     Asmall single engine plane can land at the Bulape Village Airstrip.  I forgot the airport identifier used by the Mission Aviation Fellowships pilot.  After flying over the airstrip twice for a visual inspection, the pilot landed on the slightly smooth patch of ground. There are only the bare ground at this ...
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• Chris Jones announces 10 best plays of 2009

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 134
  The Tribune’s Chris Jones announces Top 10 Plays of 2009 For the complete description, explanations and reviews of these plays (and others), be sure to visit Chris Jones ’ excellent blog: The Theater Loop 1. The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman – Lookingglass Theatre   ( our ...
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• UN peacekeepers review Congo strategy

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 128
  The UN has just extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping forces in the Congo for another 5 months as opposed to the more usual year term. This echoes the Obama decision on Afghanistan, where he had to review the current progress and understand that the strategy being pursued was flawed. The UN is not making ...
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• The New Face of Water

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
    If you are from a developed country like the United States, you may recognize this water faucet.  But if you are a rural Congolese, you probably would not recognize this as a source of water. In the coming years, I want to make the water faucet the new face of water.
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• D. R. of Congo : Human rights activists house burnt down

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 711
  Ouvertures website [fr] reports that the house of human rights activist, Emmanuel Kabengele Kalonji, in Congo has been burnt down while he is in Morocco to receive the Harubuntu Award from the Belgian NGO, Echos. His family was able to escape unharmed.
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• Whats The Source Of Water?

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 128
    Do you know where water comes from?  Some of you may answer, it comes from the store in plastic bottles.  Now, some of you may answer, it comes from your city or town.  Even others of you may answer, it comes from the water faucet.  If you lived in rural Congo, you would know it comes from that creek or ...
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• Do unto others …

  
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  Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree. Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control. Since then though a lot of people have been following this Jesus bloke. One of his oft quoted mantras was treat other people people as you would ...
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