Central Africa: In Africa's Great Lakes Region, Peace Dividend Must Follow Peace Deal
Source: Africa Headlines
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-21 07:01:15 -0700 | political-news
Washington, DC Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbors, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women,...
Theater Review: Choose Your Own Playlist at Impact's 'Jukebox Stories'
Source: KQED
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-21 06:47:20 -0700 | entertainment-news
Arts Theater Review May 21, 2013 Playwright Prince Gomolvilas and singer-songwriter Brandon Patton dish up a hilarious evening of Jukebox Stories with a new playlist every night...MFA exhibition at the strange and wonderful Old Mint building...It's helped establish careers for...
Last night's viewing - Branded a Witch, BBC3; The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars, BBC4
Source: The Independent
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 16:21:59 -0700 | sports-news
The next time someone suggests to you that all spiritual beliefs are deserving of equal respect, you might mention "kindoki", an African name used to describe a demonic spirit that can take possession of a person. There's no doubting the...
Book Review: Eve Ensler: 'In the Body of the World'
Source: KQED
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 06:47:59 -0700 | arts-culture-news
In the Body of the World' There are some stories that get under your skin and into your psyche and they change everything. For Eve Ensler, activist and playwright best known for The Vagina Monologues , one such story caused...
Grillo blasts sports minister Idem for German roots
Source: Ansa
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 05:50:45 -0700 | sports-news
An Italian cabinet minister came to the defense Monday of her German-born colleague who was mocked on the weekend by the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), Beppe Grillo. "I want to express my solidarity with Minister Josefa Idem...
Low scale conflicts fuelling insecurity in Africa: experts
Source: Daily Nation
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 02:11:39 -0700 | political-news
Africa should prioritise dealing with low-level local conflicts in order to prevent them from spreading to become regional security threats, experts said. Various security experts with knowledge of security issues in Africa agreed that factors like ethnicity and unequal access...
Bidders vie to build world's largest hydropower plant in Congo
Source: The Globe & Mail
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-19 18:53:42 -0700 | political-news
EDT A file photo shows eight massive turbines, only three of which work, on the Congo River. Chinese, South Korean and Spanish firms are vying to develop a hydro-electric project likely to cost between $9-billion and $14-billion (U.S.) on the...
U.S. Policy and Response to Humanitarian Crisis In Africa
Source: Scoop
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-19 17:02:48 -0700 | political-news
Policy and Response to Recent Humanitarian Crisis In Africa Remarks Anne C. Africa Conference Arlington, VA May 16, 2013 Thank you for that kind introduction, and for having me here today. And thank you for your decades of service to...
Page hopes work will help him lead Congo
Source: SF Gate
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 00:30:25 -0700 | political-news
One of the pages this legislative session shatters the stereotype in a dramatic way. The Lincoln Journal Star reports ( http://bit.ly/YWC6YS ) Jean-aime Mbiya Bondo , 43, is an African immigrant who is experiencing democracy firsthand in preparation for his...
State says Ruto's jet hired for Sh18.5m
Source: Daily Nation
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-19 13:37:20 -0700 | political-news
In a press statement, the government said the hiring of the jet to West Africa nations trip by Mr Ruto was necessary because there hardly exists any scheduled or commercial flights connecting between the capitals. "A Commercial flight would have...
Pressure Mounting on U.S. over Congo Violence
Source: Inter Press Service
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-17 06:55:30 -0700 | business-news
IPS Articles To date, this legislation has the support of nearly 60 Democrats and Republicans in the House and efforts are currently underway to introduce a similar piece of legislation in the Senate. It has also received significant support from...
Congo-Kinshasa: Children Treated After Attack in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Source: Africa Headlines
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-17 08:43:34 -0700 | travel-news
Goma Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is treating survivors of an attack on Mpeti in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The village, which is home to around one thousand people, was attacked by men armed with...
Chief insists SANDF will be ready for DRC mission
Source: News 24
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-16 10:32:59 -0700 | travel-news
South African Defence Force soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief said on Thursday. Lieutenant General VR...
Call for oil revenues to improve living standards in Congo
Source: IRIN
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-15 09:32:51 -0700 | business-news
Congo, which is heavily dependent on revenue from the oil industry, has been declared as conforming to a global standard that aims to ensure transparency of payments for natural resources; NGOs hope the announcement will improve the lives of the...
Brad: Angie Post-Op Was 'Fun'
Source: Fox
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-15 06:45:24 -0700 | entertainment-news
Published May 15, 2013 ET Online The lovely and talented Angelina Jolie It seems like Angelina can do it all. Less than 24 hours have passed since Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy revelation, but the Oscar winner and her family have...
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