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Orlando Sentinel
May 15, 2012
Congo's last war officially ended nearly a decade ago but its east is still plagued by a plethora of local and foreign armed groups.
KFVS
May 15, 2012
A Ugandan
army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of
Joseph Kony's
Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the
Congo-Central African Republic border. Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph ...
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
The United Nations envoy for
children and armed conflict today urged the
Ugandan government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal Lord's Resistant
army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most ...
Catholic Culture
May 15, 2012
A desire to control the mineral-rich eastern area of the nation has fostered a conflict that has led to the deaths of over five million people since 1996, making
Congo the site of the bloodiest fighting since
World War II. The
SEC has not issued the ...
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
Moreno-Ocampo is seeking the arrest of Sylvestre Mudacumura, commander of a brutal
militia that has terrorized eastern
Congo for years, on charges of
crimes against humanity and
war crimes, including murder, rape,
torture and attacking civilians.
ReptileChannel.com
May 14, 2012
... a new species of lizard from remote, war-torn mountains in Central
Africa. The new species, known as Cordylus marunguensis, was found in the Marungu Plateau, a montane area west of Lake
Tanganyika in southeastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Times LIVE
May 14, 2012
farmers, including Neil Karg, whose wife and housekeeper were murdered on his dairy farm in KwaZulu-Natal in 2010, and former Angolan
prisoner-of-war Wynand du Toit, joined the community in the
Congo. Pieter Mulder, Deputy Minister of
agriculture, ...
Bizcommunity.com
May 14, 2012
After decades of civil war and reliance on
natural resources, the Republic of
Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) will make its first move into luxury tourism next month when two new Wilderness Safaris camps in Odzala-Kokoua
National Park open for business.
Starpulse.com
May 14, 2012
... his actress wife Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three
children, his mom Chris and all the
mothers across the globe with a Facebook.
Toronto Star
May 14, 2012
One of the rebel groups in the park, says Willink, is the CNDP, led by Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for his part in the Congolese civil war, which ended in 2003. Although Ntaganda became a partner of ...
United States Army Africa
May 14, 2012
my.hsj.org
May 14, 2012
Under his rule,
Uganda took part in the
Congo War on the side of Rwanda leading to genocide in the Congo. As a result, over six million Congolese men, women and
children died.
BBC News
May 14, 2012
But at least down here there is no war and no violence. In the heat outside, the dangers have at times been much greater than those inside the mines.
UN News Centre
May 14, 2012
The United Nations envoy for
children and armed conflict today urged the
Ugandan government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most ...
Chicago Tribune
May 14, 2012
Related Hague
prosecutor seeks new warrants for
Congo war crimes Several more peacekeepers in the contingent were injured by stone throwers when a base in South Kivu province was surrounded by crowd of 1000 people, the United Nations said.
Voice of America
May 14, 2012
May 14, 2012 Congo Official: Foreign Influence Fuels DRC Conflict Information minster Lambert Mende says his government has sent a fact-finding mission to neighboring countries James Butty The
Democratic Republic of Congo's Information Minister said ...
Chicago Tribune
May 14, 2012
Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2012
In 1960, at age 27 and an AP photographer for four years, Faas began his front-line reporting career in the
Congo, then Algeria.
KFVS
May 13, 2012
A Ugandan
army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of
Joseph Kony's
Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the
Congo-Central African Republic border. Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph ...
Owen Sound Sun Times
May 13, 2012
She's been writing about women and girls in conflict zones for 25 years and in countries and regions such as
Bosnia,
Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East,
Congo and Afghanistan. She's an Amnesty International award winner and Order of
Canada member and has ...
Gulf Times
May 13, 2012
More than 150 park rangers have been killed since the east of the country became a theatre of armed conflict between various groups in 1990, according to the
WWF.
Salem-News.Com
May 13, 2012
The
government of Rwanda attacked the refugee camps in
Congo in October, 1996 under the pretext of a 'Abanyamurenge rebellion'.
AngolaPress
May 13, 2012
People in and around the town of Goma blame these troops for persistent unrest - including looting and rape - since the formal end of
DR Congo's war in 2003. The Congolese authorities have blamed the recent violence squarely on Gen Ntaganda and have ...
New York Times
May 13, 2012
RTT News
May 11, 2012
UN peacekeepers were sent to
DR Congo in 1999 as a part of international efforts to end the 1999-2002 war that had dragged in six other countries and left over four million people dead.
iAfrica.com
May 11, 2012
Fighting raged on in the jungle region where rebel leader General Bosco Ntaganda -- known as the "Terminator" and wanted in The Hague for
war crimes -- has led mutinous ex-
army troops against government forces. Some soldiers from his group, ...
Deutsche Welle
May 11, 2012
The International Criminal Court has found Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of
war crimes for using
children in his rebel
army.
BBC News
May 11, 2012
People in and around the town of Goma blame these troops for persistent unrest - including looting and rape - since the formal end of
DR Congo's war in 2003. The Congolese authorities have blamed the recent violence squarely on Gen Ntaganda and have ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 11, 2012
...
Congo - Fighting resumed Friday in eastern Congo between the
army and a group of ex-soldiers who left the military to form a new rebel group, an army spokesman said, ending three years of relative
peace in this nation periodically upended by war.
AllAfrica.com
May 11, 2012
By Wilson Asiimwe, 11 May 2012 More than 3000 Congolese fleeing eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo were recently taken to the disputed Rwamwanja refugee settlement camp in Kamwenge district.
Reuters AlertNet
May 11, 2012
Working in war zones in Afghanistan, Sudan,
Somalia, the
Congo and
Colombia, I had many occasions to observe just how complex the problems can be when
health care is not available.
Gizmodo Australia
May 11, 2012
Along with the increased demand for
tantalum comes a human price, as tantalum resources funded portions of the Second
Congo War, the bloodiest conflict since
World War II. Tantalum has the atomic number 73, snuggling the element between
hafnium, ...
GMA News
May 11, 2012
Chicago Tribune
May 11, 2012
He said the mounting tensions between Sudan and
South Sudan and
Congo's hunt for renegade General Bosco Ntaganda - who, like Kony, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for
war crimes - meant that those two countries have not been able to free ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
May 11, 2012
26, 1961 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a sick and hungry Baluba child is photographed at the Miabi Hospital in South Kasai,
Congo. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 10, 2012
Mutinous soldiers formerly from the armed
militia "National Congress for the Defence of the People" and linked to Congolese ex-general Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted for alleged
war crimes by the International Criminal Court, say they have formed a new ...
Reuters Africa
May 10, 2012
She and many others have been caught in the crossfire of clashes between the
army of the
Democratic Republic of Congo and soldiers loyal to a renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for
war crimes.
euronews
May 10, 2012
Huffington Post
May 10, 2012
"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern
wars." These words were spoken by Major General Patrick Cammaert, the Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Mission to the
Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2008, ...
Huffington Post
May 10, 2012
... in
Congo, fleeing recent clashes between the Congolese military and troops loyal to the notorious ex-warlord Ntaganda Bosco.
The Hill (blog)
May 10, 2012
"The question is ... does our continuing to put
money into the
Congo feed the war?" Skeptical witnesses agreed that the provision would discourage companies from purchasing minerals from the region.
AllAfrica.com
May 10, 2012
Washington, DC -
Congo should heed growing international pressure and arrest wanted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, the Enough Project said in a new paper.
News One
May 9, 2012
Ntaganda is accused of using child soldiers for fighting in northeastern
Congo from 2002 to 2003. He was first indicted on
war crimes charges in 2006 by the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court. Congo
President Joseph Kabila said last month ...
FM.co.za
May 9, 2012
After decades of civil war and reliance on
natural resources, the Republic of
Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) will make its first move into luxury tourism next month when two new Wilderness Safaris camps in Odzala-Kokoua
National Park open for business.
AllAfrica.com
May 9, 2012
Mr. Bemba stands accused of
war crimes and
crimes against humanity arising from his alleged failure to control his troops who reportedly murdered, raped, and pillaged while they were deployed in the CAR armed conflict. The Congolese forces were in the ...
Calgary Herald
May 9, 2012
Certainly other nations have noticed the great potential of the civil-war torn nation, where six million people have died over the past two decades in conflicts largely caused by incursions from neighbouring Rwanda and
Uganda, Reid said.
AllAfrica.com
May 9, 2012
Fears of serious human rights abuses in the latest wave of fighting in eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially in areas that have previously witnessed sexual violence committed against civilians by members of armed groups have ...
Washington Post
May 9, 2012
GISENYI, Rwanda - When gunfire broke out in her home area in eastern
Congo, Annie Kabeja joined a wave of thousands fleeing the area and walked for two days with her two
children toward neighboring Rwanda.
Gant Daily
May 8, 2012
Kinshasa, Congo (IRIN) - Sarah, 16, started sleeping on the streets of Kinshasa, capital of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), when she was only eight years old. She doesn't remember how she came to live on the streets, but thinks it was soon ...
SomalilandPress
May 8, 2012
