All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo to find safety, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring Republic of Congo, according to the UN and local officials.
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Zeina Mvemba 4:40 PM 11/6/09 Following many ethnic attacks, and acts of violence against civilians, 16,000 people have left the DRC in hopes of finding refuge and safe haven. Leaving the DRC for the Republic of Congo, officials say the fighting occurred between the Enyele and Munzaya tribes, over farming and fishing rights. The fighting killed 60 people, 40 were injured and many villages were burned....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Democratic republic of Congo (DRC) and its southern neighbor Zambia are holding a commission meeting to discuss all-round cooperation, according to the Congolese News Agency. The 11th session of the joint commission was opened on Thursday in the DRC capital Kinshasa with an agenda to include the evaluation of agreements and existing projects in political, judicial, diplomatic, defense and security,...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Seven hours between flights at Nairobi airport and nowhere to smoke. So I bought a ten-dollar transit visa, left the airport precincts and headed for the nearest bar. It was called The Pub. The white-shirted, bow-tied waiters saw me coming and greeted me with a chuckle, as if they were thinking, ‘Here comes another nicotine addict on his ten-dollar transit visa.’ I hadn’t been settled...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton’s special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April 2010.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A former inmate of Kasapa central prison in Lubumbashi has claimed that rape and sexual abuse of female prisoners is widespread, leading to many women becoming pregnant and giving birth while in jail.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The National Commission for Refugees (CNR) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced on Tuesday in Kinshasa that out of the expected number of 18,549 Congolese refugees residing in Zambia, 14,419 were repatriated to the DRC in 2009. CNR pointed out that 12 more convoys will be organized from now till the end of the year to attain the expected figures. Since the beginning of this operation...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.
Textually (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Carol Realini, CEO of Calif.-based Obopay , recently spoke with Investors Business Daily (IBD) about mobile banking and how she got the idea for her four-year-old company while in Kenya in 2002. I walked into a prepaid cell phone store in Kinshasa, and it looked exactly like a bank. People were standing in line with bags of money. The currency had been devalued, so it took basically a shopping bag...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
UN Blue Helmets on patrol in Orientale province, DRC
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
KINSHASA, Congo -- The United Nations says it will suspend military help to Congolese military units implicated in the deaths of civilians in volatile eastern Congo.
SHIMI (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Rumah – Kinkole – Rumah - Kinshasa – Grand Hotel - Rumah Menikmati cuti panjang sempena All Saint Day sehingga 2 Nov dengan sebaiknya. Perjalanan melihat keindahan... Tatkala dirimu tidak dapat melihat masa depanmu kerana masa depanmu itu masih gelap; dan dirimu tidak pula dapat menoleh kepada masamu yang dibelakang kerana semuanya peristiwa yang pahit dan getir; maka cubalah angkat...
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
guardian.co.uk From Kinshasa to your town: the incredible rise of Staff Benda Bililiguardian.co.uksomeone shouts at him a witty reference to the January day in 1996 when an Air Africa Antonov aircraft overshot the runway at N'Dolo airport, …
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