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• Debt Relief Certificates

  
  Money Guide Ireland — Authority: 113
  Proposed new Insolvency laws in Ireland will allow for the full write off of  certain debts under €20,000  with a Debt Relief Certificate or DRC. The changes are expected to come into force in the first half of 2012. A Debt Relief Certificate will apply  to unsecured debts only – so mortgages will not be [...]
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• 4 orphans rescued in 2011

  
  J.A.C.K. — Authority: 79
  Dear All!   In year 2011, 4 orphans were rescued by our sanctuary: 2 female chimpanzees, 1 bush baby and 1 very young pangolin. 2011 : 4 rescued orphans These rescues weren’t possible without the help of DRC authorities, of several  sponsors and of different  participants which we kindly thank for ...
  4 days ago

• The Congo in Books: Bram Posthumus’ Two-part Literary Postmortem

  
  BOOK SA - Magazine — Authority: 115
  Senegal-based Bram Posthumus has written a two-part article about how reading certain seminal books on the Congo can help to understand why the Democratic Republic of Congo is the tumultuous place it is today. The aptly named Posthumus suggests that a dip into the past with Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost ...
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• Subordination 101: A Walk Thru For Sovereign Bond Markets In A Post-Greek Default World

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
  Yesterday, Reuters blogger Felix Salmon in a well-written if somewhat verbose essay , makes the argument that "Greece has the upper hand" in its ongoing negotiations with the ad hoc and official group of creditors. It would be a great analysis if it wasnt for one minor detail. It is wrong. And while that in itself ...
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• Remembering Patrice Lumumba: The 20th Century’s “Most Important” Assassination

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 111
  Tuesday, 17 January 2012, marked 50 years since the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first elected president of an independent Congo. Lumumba’s death in 1961 was the result of two related plots by the US and Belgian governments and his diposal during the tumultuous Congo Crisis after which Mobutu Sese Seko ...
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• The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba

  
  Africa Unchained — Authority: 116
  Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja writing in the Guardian: Image of Patrice Lumumba via Wikipedia When the atrocities related to brutal economic exploitation in Leopolds Congo Free State resulted in millions of fatalities, the US joined other world powers to force Belgium to take over the country as a ...
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• DRC: Block III oil exploration to start…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  JSE and AIM-listed exploration & production companySacOil, which is focused exclusively on operations in Africa, has announcedthat the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has granted aPresidential Ordinance to Total E&P RDC, the operator of Block III, fortheir 60% interest in Block III. ...
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• Former NBA Star Dikembe Mutombo Accused of Brokering Congo Gold Scam…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  Former NBA star Dikembe Mutombo has earned global praisefor humanitarian efforts in his native Democratic Republic of Congo. But now hehas been accused of brokering a scam to sell more than 1,000 pounds of goldfrom his homeland. Citing a United Nations report, the Houston Chroniclesays Mutombo arranged the deal ...
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• D.R. Congo: Ireland - Minister Costello expresses concern at situation in DRC following meeting with members of the Congolese community

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 129
  Source; Government of Ireland The Minister of State for Development and Trade, Joe Costello T.D., met with members of the Congolese community in Ireland to discuss allegations of fraud and violence around the Presidential and Parliamentary elections which were held in November. In response ...
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• Mawson West Updates Congo Activities

  
  Silver Investing News — Authority: 422
  Mawson West Ltd. (TSX:MWE) announced an update to exploration activities at copper-silver properties in the DRC. Continue reading...
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• CONGO: Discussion groups help male youth work to prevent violence against women

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 492
  WNN Breaking (WNN) KINSHASA, DRC: As paramilitary violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues with the absence of much of the western world’s media coverage, United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF is helping to bring ‘child-friendly’ spaces to adolescents who have been displaced. Many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Catholic bishops condemn DR Congo presidential poll – BBC

  
  African Dictator — Authority: 120
  The Catholic Church had a network of observers during the election Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have denounced elections in November which re-elected President Joseph Kabila. A statement from 35 bishops complains of “treachery, lies and terror” and calls on the election commission to ...
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• Dresser-Rand Group Passes This Key Test

  
  Fool.com: The Motley Fool — Authority: 697
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• Rwandan FDLR rebels kill 26 in DR Congo…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  At least 26 people have been killed in attacks by aRwandan militia group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, theCongolese army says. It says several remote villages in South Kivu provincehave been targeted since the start of January. An army spokesman blamed the Democratic Forces for theLiberation ...
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• From King Leopold II to Kabila, DRC has never stopped bleeding-Nicholas Sengoba…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  “The ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)concluded a shambolic and bloody election on November 28, 2011. It was thesecond ‘democratic election’ in DRC’s 51-year history of self rule. Despite thetravails of Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, theincumbent Maj. Gen. Joseph ...
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• Does your smartphone fund conflict in the DRC?...

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo makemillions each year from illicit mining of "conflict minerals" used incell phones and computers. Conflict mineral mining generates between $300million and $1.4 billion per year, and thousands of Congolese families live offthe industry. The US government ...
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• Adoption in Congo: Machine Guns and a Sweet Baby Girl…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  Machine guns, thieving cabbies, and a sweet baby girl:welcome to adoption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I knew that adopting a child from the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo would not be easy. But I never expected to be stuck on apitch-dark road in the middle of the night, somewhere outside the city ...
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• France Pressured Over Attack on Congolese Official…

  
  filtre — Authority: 131
  French authorities are searching for suspects in aviolent attack on the Democratic Republic of Congos Senate president in Paris. Congolese authorities have protested the incident,calling Frances response timid. French authorities say they are doing everything theycan to hunt down those who attacked ...
  3 weeks ago

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