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AP - CONGO's President Joseph Kabila named a new prime minister following the resignation of 83-year-old Antoine Gizenga. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 5 hours ago
Reuters - Democratic Republic of CONGO President Joseph Kabila named Budget Minister Adolphe Muzito as prime minister on Friday, according to a presidential decree read out on state television. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 5 hours ago
Reuters - Democratic Republic of CONGO on Friday gave the U.N. Security Council nearly three dozen photographs which it said supported its accusation that Rwandan government soldiers invaded and attacked eastern CONGO this week. ... Source: www.iht.com --- 6 hours ago
Rebels in eastern CONGO say they have withdrawn from a military base that they captured two days ago. ... Source: www.iht.com --- 6 hours ago
CONGO's President Joseph Kabila named a new prime minister following the resignation of 83-year-old Antoine Gizenga. ... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 16 hours ago
New drug combinations are being tested to fight sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of CONGO. ... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 8 hours ago
DR CONGO's leader makes a televised appeal for people in the east to take up arms against rebel general Laurant Nkunda. ... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 1 day ago
Forces loyal to the rebel Congolese military commander Laurent Nkunda have taken control of a strategically significant military base in eastern CONGO. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A United Nations agency announced Thursday a grant of 8.6 million U.S. dollars to enhance agricultural production and provide food security to poor people in rural areas of the Republic of CONGO. The initiative is part ... Source: www.un.org --- 1 day ago
An $8.6 million grant to enhance agricultural production and provide food security for poor people in rural areas of the Republic of CONGO was announced today by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). ... Source: www.un.org --- 1 day ago
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the CONGO (DRC) has not been able to confirm persistent reports of incursions by Rwandan troops into the eastern part of the vast country where they are said to be fighting alongside rebels. ... Source: csmonitor.com --- 8 hours ago
Clashes between government forces and Tutsi rebels could force 30,000 people from their homes in eastern CONGO. ... Source: www.greenpeace.org --- 6 hours ago
Etude sectorielle: Exploitation forestière en République Démocratique du CONGO ... Source: www.france24.com --- 3 hours ago
Democratic Republic of CONGO President Joseph Kabila named Budget Minister Adolphe Muzito as prime minister on Friday, according to a presidential decree read out on state television. He will have to deal with renewed clashes in the east. ... Source: daily.swarthmore.edu --- 1 day ago
This past Wednesday, chief of New York Times West Africa bureau Lydia Polgreen gave a talk entitled “Darfur, CONGO, and the Aftermath of Genocide.” Polgreen explained that she intended [...] ...
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Renewed fighting in the district of Ituri and in North Kivu province has led to the displacement of thousands of civilians BUNIA/KIGALI, 10 October 2008 - Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic ... ... Source: allafrica.com --- 1 day ago
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the CONGO (DRC) has not been able to confirm persistent reports of incursions by Rwandan troops into the eastern part of the vast country where they are said to be fighting alongside rebels. ... Source: www.topix.com --- 7 hours ago
Rwanda has done very well out of previous invasions of the Democratic Republic of CONGO, and has been one of the worst human rights abusers in its neighbor's bloody wars. ... Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 17 hours ago
+ ] UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of CONGO could spark a wider regional conflict and called for an... ... Find more results for CONGO on RSSMicro.com |
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Interesting—and maybe even positive—news this week out of the Democratic Republic of CONGO, which recently decided to cancel two-thirds of its logging contracts, as part of a larger World Bank-supervised review to get rid of some of the corruption that's been plaguing the industry. Oddly enough, the country's vast rainforests have remained in better shape than most—unfortunately, that's because both the Mobutu kleptocracy and then years of civil war have scared off major timber companies for most of the past four decades. Since 2003, though, as the country has more or less started to stabilize (albeit with pockets of conflict here and there), loggers have poured in and started mowing down forests unsupervised. A recent report found that less than one-third of 156 contracts released in Kinsasha live up to even minimum legal standards. Most were approved either during the 1998-2003 war or by the somewhat shady interim government that followed. Trying to bring some semblance of order to the timber industry would be a huge deal: As Christian Parenti reported in his long piece for The Nation on the CONGO's forests, "if deforestation continues unabated, by 2050 the DRC could release as much carbon dioxide as Britain has in the past sixty years." That's not even getting into the 40 million people who depend on the woodlands, or the war, desertification, migrations, etc. that would result. (Plus, it's not as if illegal logging overseen ...