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OfficialWire (press release)
July 31, 2010
A
boat carrying about 200 passengers to
Congo's capital sunk after hitting a mud bank. At least 80 people were confirmed dead, ...
Afrique en Ligue
July 31, 2010
Studies on the joint exploration of an
oil field -
Angola and
Congo Brazzaville here
Thursday created an inter-state organ to conduct studies on the joint ...
NOLA.com
July 31, 2010
Diamond Offshore Drilling's Ocean Confidence, a semi-submersible deepwater rig, is slowly making its two-month 7000-mile voyage to the waters of the
Congo. ...
Toronto Star
July 31, 2010
Indeed, there's no mention at all of the Democratic Republic of Congo's dreadful past as an exploited, horrifically abused colony in any of the exhibits, ...
Seer Press
July 31, 2010
Data released by the
Democratic Republic of Congo reveal that up to 140 people are believed to be dead after a
boat turned over on the Kasai River, ...
Huffington Post (blog)
July 31, 2010
Local authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are reporting that at least 60000 people have been uprooted from their homes following ...
Voice of America
July 30, 2010
Bernama
July 30, 2010
United Nations, July 31 (Bernama) -- Local authorities in eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are reporting that almost 90000 people have been ...
Catholic Culture
July 30, 2010
Zaire confiscated Catholic schools, replacing crucifixes and pictures of the Pope with photographs of Mobutu, and Cardinal Malula was forced into exile for ...
Amnesty International
July 30, 2010
Joseph Dunia Ruyenzi is one of hundreds of
human rights activists in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who face arrest, harassment, threats and even ...
CNN International
July 30, 2010
The star of Joseph Conrad's classic novel of imperialism and descent into madness, "The Heart of Darkness," a journey down the Congo River is not for the ...
Reuters Africa
July 30, 2010
NUMBI Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Marie keeps her cash hidden in her "I love Jesus" hat, Samy in his socks. ...
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2010
The remaining rebels have been involved in the trafficking of diamonds and gold from Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces, according to a 2007 report by ...
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2010
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Vodacom Group Ltd. held talks with
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila about the company's venture in ...
NESN.com
July 29, 2010
The 2010 version of the Red Sox has conjured up images of Muhammad Ali in Zaire, leaning against the ropes, ...
New York Times
July 29, 2010
The lineup includes a collaboration between the German choreographer and performer and Faustin Linyekula of Congo; new work by Richard Move, ...
Wikinews
July 29, 2010
The sinking was reportedly the result of hitting a mud bank in the shallow river, due to it being the dry season in the Congo, causing the vessel to capsize ...
AllAfrica.com
July 29, 2010
Northwest Asian Weekly
July 29, 2010
In May 2008, an American distressed
debt fund that bought about $102 million in debt carried by the
Congo government sued in
Hong Kong. ...
The Guardian
July 29, 2010
Cellular-News
July 29, 2010
New mobile network for Republic of the Congo, Azur has made the first public calls on its network as it prepares for a commercial launch. ...
BBC News
July 29, 2010
She also alleged that in one case a woman from the
Democratic Republic of Congo, who she believed had the right to stay in the
UK, was told she would be ...
Aljazeera.net
July 29, 2010
About 138 people have been killed in a
boat accident in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, police said. They said the accident took place in the country's ...
CNN International
July 29, 2010
Mapesa said there was no evidence the disease has spread to
Uganda's neighbors, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and
Rwanda. There was also no confirmation ...
Voice of America
July 28, 2010
These include a number former French colonies, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and
Nigeria. Celebrations are being held in
Africa and outside the continent ...
Washington Post
July 28, 2010
We all want safe, non-exploitative mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- and responsible business practices in our own country ["Trying to curb ...
AllAfrica.com
July 28, 2010
NEWS about Louisa Hoffman possibly also being infected by the deadly Congo Fever poured cold water over Andries Hoffman's improving condition. ...
AllAfrica.com
July 28, 2010
Sellas tetteh and his under 20 team; the Junior Wasps are back to the drawing board after
Saturday's dismal show in
Congo Brazzaville. ...
WALB-TV
July 28, 2010
They're making an hour-long documentary on life in the Congo. And that training is coming from a veteran actor who lives right here in southwest Georgia ...
San Francisco Bay View
July 28, 2010
by the
Africa Faith and Justice Network, Friends of the
Congo, Hotel
Rwanda/Rusesabagina Foundation, International Humanitarian Law Institute of
Minnesota, ...
DesMoinesRegister.com
July 28, 2010
In
Congo, where mass rapes of women occur in front of their
children, there is no word for rape. It's just called sex. Atrocities against women are often ...
Christian Science Monitor
July 28, 2010
Intelligence sources say the relatively obscure ADF-NALU group, based in the mountains of eastern
Congo, helped
Somalia's Al Shabab
militants carry out the ...
TMCnet
July 28, 2010
On one side you have funds going to the rebels that wreak havoc across the Congo, but on the other you have the victims of this pillaging and rape that are ...
Reuters AlertNet
July 27, 2010
In April, the British-based aid agency interviewed 816 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North and South Kivu provinces; 60 percent said they ...
The Catholic Review
July 27, 2010
The woman's ordeal is typical of many who are raped and sexually abused in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said Muhindo, who visited Baltimore-based ...
Huffington Post (blog)
July 27, 2010
It was thrilling this week to see
President Barack Obama signing a new law to combat "conflict
minerals" mining in the
Democratic Republic of Congo -- a ...
ABC News
July 27, 2010
The
middle class woman from Portland,
Oregon saw a 20-minute segment on the war in
Congo -- a war whose victims included tens of thousands of women who had ...
Times of India
July 27, 2010
MassLive.com
July 27, 2010
CHICOPEE - An
educator whose last position was setting up an international school in the Republic of
Congo has been hired to take over ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
July 27, 2010
Diamond Offshore Drilling said it would move a second deepwater rig out of the
Gulf of Mexico to waters off the Republic of
Congo due to a US drilling ...