Child soldiers recruited in DRC, U.N. finds
Source: United Press International
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-06-11 08:04:53 -0700 | travel-news
Democratic Republic of Congo, June 11 (UPI) -- Rebel leaders accused of recruiting child soldiers to fight pro-government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo will face justice, a U.N. envoy said. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in DRC expressed frustration...
Congo orchestra born on mean streets finds royal favor
Source: GMA News
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-06-11 06:50:06 -0700 | entertainment-news
Congo's sweltering riverside capital is more accustomed to the pulsating rhythms of some of Africa's most famous Soukous and Rumba musicians than the more genteel strains of Italian classical composer Guiseppe Verdi. But a strange musical odditya symphony orchestra of...
Africa: To Hold a Credible Election, Bring in the Foreigners
Source: All Africa
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-06-05 12:37:06 -0700 | travel-news
Do-gooding outsiders can make or break elections in countries emerging from war. These nations are usually broke and have a difficult time organising and paying for polls...In 2006, after 32 years of kleptocratic rule by Mobutu Sese Seko and years...
Album review: Jupiter & Okwess International, Hotel Univers (Out Here)
Source: The Independent
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-31 12:33:09 -0700 | entertainment-news
Jupiter Bokondji is best known to British ears as one of Damon Albarn's collaborators in DRC Music. Here, his group Okwess International cooks up feverish, writhing polyrhythms as Jupiter addresses local social and spiritual concerns from his home in Kinshasa....
Central Africa: World Bank Pledges Aid for Great Lakes Region
Source: Africa Headlines
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-24 11:01:41 -0700 | business-news
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon are on a three-day trip to the Great Lakes region in central Africa. Speaking in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kim announced that the World Bank...
Congo-Kinshasa: Road Renovation Revitalizes Neighborhoods in DRC's Capital City
Source: Africa Headlines
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-24 03:39:35 -0700 | political-news
Kinshasa Along the Nlandu road to the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city Kinshasa, small businesses are springing up and local entrepreneurs are thriving. This is because Nlandu road is newly renovated. "The occupancy rate in our hotel, which was...
Africa: World Bank Announces U.S.$1 Billion Pledge to Africa's Great Lakes Region
Source: All Africa
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-24 03:14:36 -0700 | political-news
DRC, MAY 22, 2013 On the first day of an historic joint United Nations/World Bank Group mission to the Great Lakes region, the World Bank Group announced $1 billion in proposed new funding to help countries in the region provide...
Deadly mortar in key Congolese city
Source: BBC
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-24 06:11:46 -0700 | travel-news
A mortar has hit the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing one person, a UN spokesman says. The attack comes UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kinshasa to promote peace. Government and M23 rebel forces have been...
More than 20 killed in Congo mine collapse
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-16 15:37:36 -0700 | political-news
Congo The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province...The statement sent to reporters late Friday and signed by government spokesman Lambert...
Fears of Rebel Infiltration of DR Congo Army
Source: Inter Press Service
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-16 02:43:42 -0700 | travel-news
The government must first put in place a mechanism for the reintegration and monitoring of deserters who could, at any moment, rejoin the rebellion, he said. One M23 defector, Colonel Nzala Ngomo, was reinstated into the national army on May...
Congo: 32 die in clash between army and militia
Source: Fox News
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-23 23:12:41 -0700 | travel-news
Congo The Congolese army says that 32 were killed in fighting between soldiers and Mai Mai militiamen. The rebels launched an assault early Wednesday on the town of Beni, 220 miles (350 kilometers) north of Goma...Olivier Hamuli said the...
DRC ruled out the list of polio countries
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-23 23:15:43 -0700 | health-news
The DRC is no longer part of the states where the wild poliovirus is circulating. This is confirmed by the World Health Organization, which attest to the good news has just sent a letter to the Minister of Public Health...
Congo to create city in honor of Patrice Lumumba
Source: Fox News
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-24 04:12:15 -0700 | political-news
Congo The Congolese government is naming a town after Patrice Lumumba, the country's first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him a liberation symbol worldwide. The new city in central Congo, named Lumumbaville, will be...
Forces arrive for special DRC brigade
Source: United Press International
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-13 07:03:32 -0700 | travel-news
Tanzanian forces arrived in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to serve in a so-called intervention brigade, a U.N. peacekeeping mission said. Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in DRC, said Tanzanian soldiers deployed to Goma, the...
Tanzanian troops arrive in eastern DRC
Source: Mail and Guardian
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-05-12 03:50:48 -0700 | travel-news
C A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian troops arrived in eastern DRC on Saturday, a first step in assembling the new United Nations intervention brigade. The Tanzanian troops are the first batch to form the UN intervention brigade to be...
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