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Since 1997 the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC; formerly called Zaire) has been rent by ethnic strife and civil war, touched off by a massive inflow in 1994 of refugees from the fighting in Rwanda and Burundi. The government of former president Mobutu Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent Kabila in May 1997; his regime was subsequently challenged by a Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebellion in August 1998. Troops from Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Chad, and Sudan intervened to support the Kinshasa regime. A cease-fire was signed on 10 July 1999 by the DROC, Zimbabwe, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, and Congolese armed rebel groups, but sporadic fighting continued. KABILA was assassinated on 16 January 2001 and his son Joseph Kabila was named head of state ten days later. In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a government of national unity.

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Fri. November 20, 2009

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Kakurungu said they reported to the Congolese army before being handed over to the UPDF 69th battalion in Congo, and were repatriated to Uganda. ...
Kinshasa, Congo - A passenger plane overshot the runway today, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, ...
... New York Times columnist, as he uncovers the stories of women and children affected by the decade-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
Congo DR has an atrocious air safety record and has suffered major crashes in recent years, including one in Goma. Pilots and other airline personnel this ...

... Guinea (168), Equatorial Guinea (168), Burundi (168), Guinea-Bissau (162), Congo-Brazzaville (162), Democratic Republic of Congo (162) and Angola (162). ...
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have returned to Gulu, ...
The introduction of the Conflict-Free Congo minerals Act of 2009 in the United States House of Representatives today marks a critical milestone in the ...
Kinshasa 19 November 2009 - The United Nations organization Mission in DR Congo (MONUC) today welcomed reports of the arrest by German Federal Police of two ...
... will gather at the same venue, in Kensington, west London, to highlight the continued suffering in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and abducted children, who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
workers of Congo's largest state diamond miner Miniere de Bakwange, or MIBA, held demonstrations in the capital Kinshasa and eastern Congo on Wednesday to ...
Today marks 100 years since the Archbishop of Canterbury led the great Congo demonstration that met on the steps of the Royal Albert Hall to call for ...
... Equatorial Guinea (168), Burundi (168), Guinea Bissau (162), DR Congo (162), Congo Brazzaville (162) and Angola (162) Burundi, Congo Brazzaville and ...
THE Uganda National Bureau of Standards does not have enough staff to monitor goods entering the country on the Sudan and the Democratic ...
He improves our "assist total. I think he and Zaire" Taylor "kind of complement each other. I think Zaire's a better player when JT's out there."
The sixth batch of the Indian Aviation Contingent (IAC) Wednesday left on a UN peacekeeping mission in Congo. Consisting of 243 air warriors, including 37 ...
THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
The German authorities have arrested leaders of a militia which operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo - but how strong is the case against them? ...
DOR: The numbers were always small. What I have come to conclude is that some units when they keep ghosts for some time, some of them in order to off-load ...
Johannesburg (Reuters) - South African miner Metorex said on Wednesday its Ruashi mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo could produce 36000 tonnes copper ...
by Martyn Drakard About 40 tons of gold is smuggled annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Most is shipped to Dubai via its neighbor, ...
However, they have been arrested for war crimes allegedly committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda accuses some FDLR leaders of having carried ...
Violence in Congo has displaced millions and left trails of deaths and destruction. A cabinet member in the Democratic Republic of Congo has declared that ...
The lists of these nations are endless, to mention just a few, Nigeria (the Niger Delta crisis), Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Congo, Sudan, ...
Worked exclusively up to now on Rwanda's side, Lake Kivu will shortly be open to explorers operating from Congo-K's bank of the lake. ...
Brazzaville - Associations of defence to human rights of Angola and of the two Republics of Congo, part of the network of the Congo Basin-Ocean, ...
By Vision reporter ABOUT 40 tonnes of gold is smuggled annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, most of it shipped to Dubai via Uganda, ...
... $45 million contract from the US Agency For International Development (USAID) to improve HIV/AIDS services in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
It's a good reminder that in much of the world, including but not limited to the Congo, a free flow of information is viewed as, at best, an annoyance by ...
Kampala, Uganda - Some 4000 miles away from the spiral of violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the simultaneous arrests of two key ...
India's Essar Group has agreed to buy majority stakes in the Dhabi Group's telecoms businesses in Uganda and Congo, Warid Telecom Uganda and Warid Congo. ...
In both Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the two deadliest wars in the world, China has invested or struck trade deals worth billions of ...
A Democratic Republic of Congo cabinet minister has hailed United States financial support for Kinshasa's efforts to end sexual violence ...
How strange to be out of Congo. As Isaiah, our incredible translator, and I walked across the border he showed me the river that marks the ...
United Nations (Reuters) - The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
13 (Xinhua) -- The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has pledged no more suspensions of logistical support after putting on halt the ...
In 2006, the government asked Anek to take part in negotiations at Garamba National Park in Congo to persuade Kony to sign a peace agreement with Uganda. ...
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- First Quantum minerals Ltd., the Canadian company that had a $553 million copper project canceled by the ...
In it and related correspondence to the UN, Dimandja explained that he was a national staff member of the UN Mission in the Congo who had fled death threats ...
Kinshasa â€Â" Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun vaccinating 2.6 million children under five against polio and measles in three ...


 


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