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Yahoo! NewsWASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) -- A team of civilian technical experts concluded work to remove rubble and munitions in the Republic of Congo following a deadly March explosion, Washington said.
Fri, 18 May 2012 08:09:03 -0700
Sue Mabale, host of one of Jo'burg's most eatery joints, died recently. Friend and former pub crawler Bongani Madondo doffs a hat to her spirit.
Fri, 18 May 2012 01:16:24 -0700
1923: Jamaica's Hugh Lawson Shearer is born in Martha Brae, Trelawny. Lawson becomes a politician and later rises to the head of government. 1830: Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for the manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower.
Fri, 18 May 2012 00:38:33 -0700
[RNW Africa] Goma - Thousands have fled from Northern Kivu to escape renewed fighting between the Congolese army and rebels. This adds to an estimated two million displaced peoples in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Wed, 16 May 2012 23:19:27 -0700
KINSHASA, Congo - Environmental activists say timber companies are flouting the law in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the complicity of the government. The environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Monday revealed results of a study showing that companies operating in the Congo are using illegal permits to get around a ban on new logging concessions. Greenpeace says it has evidence ...
Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:45 -0700
KINSHASA (AFP) - Rwandan rebels have killed at least 50 civilians in May in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:02:52 -0700
A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday.
Wed, 16 May 2012 11:08:13 -0700
[UN News] The top United Nations refugee official today voiced his alarm at new inflows of refugees into Rwanda and Uganda, fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Wed, 16 May 2012 08:04:52 -0700
[IRIN] Gisenyi - In the last few weeks fighting between government troops and "mutineers" has ended three years of relative peace in North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and thousands of refugees have been streaming across the border to Rwanda.
Wed, 16 May 2012 08:04:43 -0700
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday.
Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:18 -0700
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday.
Wed, 16 May 2012 06:24:17 -0700
[RNW Africa] Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives.
Wed, 16 May 2012 05:49:37 -0700
Vodacom Group Ltd. (VOD) may lose its shares in a wireless unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a court ordered the confiscated stock be auctioned next month if a $21 million dispute with a consultant isn’t settled.
Wed, 16 May 2012 05:47:25 -0700
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity. ...
Wed, 16 May 2012 04:53:13 -0700
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday.
Wed, 16 May 2012 03:09:27 -0700
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