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International Rivers (blog)
March 8, 2018
CBS News
March 5, 2018
A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mineral cobalt is used in virtually all ... At barely 10 years old, children lug heavy sacks of cobalt to be washed in rivers. From as early as four, they can pick it out of a pile.
africanews
February 28, 2018
At least 14 people are feared drowned after two overcrowded, rickety boats sank in the River Congo, the interior minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) told AFP Wednesday, though local sources ... Boat accidents occur frequently in DR Congo, both in the vast country's lakes and on its rivers.
ReliefWeb
February 26, 2018
UNHCR
February 20, 2018
He crossed a river which almost swept him away. With him he carried an old mattress and a plastic bucket containing his belongings. Now the 58-year-old man is standing on a hill, overlooking hundreds of makeshift shelters at the Kalunga site for internally displaced people in Tanganyika province, in theÃÂ ...
Anglicannews
February 19, 2018
Vanguard
January 30, 2018
... Verde, Benin, Cameroon, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Zambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Mali. ... They include lymphatic filariasis (commonly known as elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (known as river blindness), schistosomiasis (known as snailÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
January 19, 2018
DR Congo: Security Forces Fire on Catholic Churchgoers ... Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo used excessive force, including teargas and live ammunition, against peaceful protesters at Catholic Churches in the capital, Kinshasa, and .... Some were allegedly thrown in the Congo River.
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
January 16, 2018
Rand Daily Mail
January 12, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo can power its future by investing in small-scale hydropower and solar energy, according to a high-level study. ... This is because the majority of planned dams are in the same river basins and will rely on similar patterns of rainfall and hence be vulnerable at the same timeÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 11, 2018
Tourists catch a glimpse of the wildebeest migration spectacle at the Mara River in Masai Mara National Reserve. PHOTO | FILE ... US citizens should, however, "reconsider travel to the Rwanda- Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border due to armed conflict," the advisory states. Travellers are told toÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
January 11, 2018
Sites harboring rich biodiversity, such as Virunga and Garamba national parks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve in ... However, the lake reserve is severely threatened by dams being developed on its inflowing rivers, and by sugarcane plantation expansion.
Seychelles News Agency
January 9, 2018
People gather at a market on July 21, 2011 on the banks of the Congo river near the village of Ngamanzo in the municipality of Maluku, Kinshasa province. The area is under surveillance by medical officials for signs of Cholera following an epidemic last March that started at Kisangani in the north-eastÃÂ ...
Face2Face Africa
January 8, 2018
Known for their proficiency and dexterity in crafts and art, the Yombe people live in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia. Notable among their carvings is the Nkisi Nkonde, which refers to power figures. The Nkisi carvings are used to solve societal problemsÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 8, 2018
The minister declared that the city's poor sewerage system was partly to blame. Ten of Kinshasa's 24 districts experienced power cuts after the banks of Kalamu river gave way and flooded a substation. The city has a population of 10 million and is the third largest metropolis in Africa after Cairo and Lagos.
Rappler
January 4, 2018
File photo shows people carry furnitures on a boat in Limete, part of Kinshasa on December 9, 2015 after an overflow of the river N'djili near the river ... Kinshasa, DR Congo - Twenty-four people died overnight when torrential rain and mudslides swept though shanty homes in Kinshasa, capital of theÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
December 29, 2017
biologists are attempting to create an inventory of the species that inhabit Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, many of them endangered. France 24 reports on a mission that has uncovered some never-before-seen wildlife. A Unesco World Heritage Site, Salonga National ParkÃÂ ...
eNCA
December 19, 2017
Situated close to the border with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yei River State has seen several rounds of intense fighting after government and opposition forces launched attacks and counter-attacks against each other several times over the year. SPLA-IO Deputy Military Spokesperson,ÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 14, 2017
The BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo's central Kasai region, a land littered with tears and mass graves. .... Not all of DR Congo is under threat of violence but besides Kasai there have been renewed outbreaks in the east, where 15 peacekeepers were killed lastÃÂ ...
Voice of America
December 13, 2017
Four people drowned while fleeing an attack by a militia group on a mining area in the violence-ridden northeast of DR Congo, local sources said Wednesday. The victims died in the Ituri river attempting to escape the Mai-Mai Simba militia group in the mineral-rich Ituri province on Saturday, according toÃÂ ...
Global News Network
December 31, 1999
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
At least 45 people have died in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and more than 5,000 have been made homeless according to the local ... It has notoriously poor infrastructure; improvised wooden shacks line the waterfront of the Congo River, and dirt roads often flood with the first rainfall.
New Vision
November 23, 2017
Japan granted Uganda sh230b to build a new bridge on River Nile in Jinja. It is expected to serve as a major trade route connecting Uganda to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, Rwanda, Burundi, the DR Congo as well as Central Africa. Njeru 703x422. Great progress in the construction of the New Nile BridgeÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
November 9, 2017
LUMBUMBASHI: Nine children died and another was missing after a canoe capsized on Lake Tanganyika in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. a local official said Thursday. The motorised boat left the town of Kalemie and was heading for the port of Wimbi when it sank on Wednesday.
ReliefWeb
November 4, 2017
blog - Have you heard about the family kits, a worldwide innovation from the Democratic Republic of Congo? ... The only one health area, which is not covered by the minimum health care package is the health area known as "Fleuve" (= river), where between 4,000 and 7,000 people live depending onÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
November 1, 2017
Below deck, a girl trailed a cup on a long string in the coffee-colored river below. In between, the barge was stuffed to the gills with white plastic sacks packed full of the fuel that powers much of modern Democratic Republic of Congo: charcoal. The DRC's charcoal trade is intertwined with many of the forcesÃÂ ...
HuffPost
October 30, 2017
The tears were hardly dry on the face of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley's face when rioting broke out the provincial capitol of Goma in the ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo. Nine people were killed early this morning, including at least one policeman, as residents protested the regime ofÃÂ ...
M
October 26, 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo: One of the most severe cholera epidemics in years continues ... " wells have dried up or lowered in level and many people have been forced to collect water from unsafe sources, such as lake or rivers, because the authorities are not able to provide safe drinking water to theÃÂ ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation (blog)
October 25, 2017
Below deck, a girl trailed a cup on a long string in the coffee-colored river below. In between, the barge was stuffed to the gills with white plastic sacks packed full of the fuel that powers much of modern Democratic Republic of Congo: charcoal. The DRC's charcoal trade is intertwined with many of the forcesÃÂ ...
The Daily Courier
October 14, 2017
Greenpeace International (blog)
October 13, 2017
Council on Foreign Relations
October 10, 2017
Daily Post Nigeria
October 10, 2017
ReliefWeb
October 9, 2017
In 2014, inter-communal tensions drove many people from the area across a river to neighbouring DR Congo. Now that the situation in the areaÃÂ ...
Premium Times
October 8, 2017
Daily Maverick
September 28, 2017
ESI Africa
September 26, 2017
According to a new study compiled by the International Rivers, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the position to harness itsÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
September 25, 2017
DR Congo: Weekly Humanitarian Update (18 - 22 September 2017) ... when heavy rains and hailstones provoked the Osso River to go out itsÃÂ ...
Press TV
September 20, 2017
12 dead, 92 missing in DR Congo floods ... flooding in two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an official said Wednesday. ... The rain started on Tuesday, causing a river to flood, local residents told AFP.
Independent Online
September 12, 2017
Medical Xpress
December 31, 1999
From crouching over a small hole with a sheet for privacy to defecating in the open air, for millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo going to the toilet ... The vast majority of DR Congo's more than 70 million residents do not have access to "improved" toilets--latrines, sewerage or cesspits thatÃÂ ...
Amnesty International USA
September 7, 2017
Deutsche Welle
September 7, 2017
Mongolia's miners consider the environmental cost of gold, Albania's hydropower plans threaten Europe's last large free-flowing river, and meetÃÂ ...
Metro US
September 7, 2017
Orangeville Citizen
September 7, 2017
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