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Africa's Schindler
Brazzaville :: Congo | about 18 hours ago
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Against unforgiving odds and in circumstances that would overwhelm many, the 36-year-old is trying to lay the foundations for a better future in this corner of Congo, backed by Peace Direct, one of the three charities being supported by The Independent's...
Tags: Henri, Mai Mai, Congo, Hema, Kakule, Kahindo Mwanamolo, Brazzaville, African countries, Rwandan Genocide, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bunia, French-speaking countries, African Union member states, Least Developed Countries, War Conflict
111-year-old Sunnyside Conservatory reopens
Brazzaville :: Congo | 2 days ago
Credibility More than a century ago, a British-born inventor and stargazer built on his remote San Francisco estate a whimsical conservatory with eight sides and a soaring ceiling to house his collection of exotic plants and flowers. Time, vandals and the threat...
Tags: Sunnyside Conservatory, Congo, Brazzaville, Sunnyside Houston, Neighborhoods in San Francisco, Hospitality Recreation, Sunnyside
Africa: Coltan, Cash and Oil
Brazzaville :: Congo | 2 days ago
Credibility Coltan, Cash and Oil Sokari Ekine 4 December 2009 column he demand for the mineral coltan, 80 per cent of which is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), continues to fuel the conflict in the DRC. Various rebel groups control the mines and according...
Tags: Congo, Brazzaville, African Union member states, African countries, French-speaking countries, Coltan, Politics, Patient safety, Pharmacology, Republic of the Congo, Conflict minerals, War Conflict, Medical prescription, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Smuggling
Who is senior, premier or VP?
Brazzaville :: Congo | 2 days ago
Credibility Dr Kivuva warns that this could be a recipe for disaster, especially in the event that the office of the president falls vacant before the end of the holder’s term. Although the draft law provides that the deputy president assumes office in such circumstances,...
Tags: Dr Kivuva, National Assembly, deputy presidency, prime minister, Congo, Brazzaville, Pan-Africanism, Cabinet, Patrice Lumumba, Politics, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Mouvement National Congolais, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Africa: Congolese Journalist Speaks About DRC Female Atrocities
Brazzaville :: Congo | 3 days ago
Credibility Congolese Journalist Speaks About DRC Female Atrocities Alison Walkley 17 November 2009 Thirty-one-year-old Chouchou Namegabe is revolutionizing journalism in her native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the face of a patriarchal countrywide...
Tags: Congo, Brazzaville, Politics, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Entertainment Culture
Going home: orphans of the gorilla massacre that shocked the world
Kigali :: Rwanda | 3 days ago
Credibility Moving home is often stressful and sometimes positively traumatic...The two mountain gorilla babies had just been orphaned, their parents murdered in a dispute that led to the sacking of the director of Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. One of...
Tags: Virunga National Park, Ndakasi, mountains gorilla, Goma, local communities, park authorities, Rwanda, Congo, Kigali, Environment, Geography of Uganda, Virunga Mountains, Mountain Gorilla, Gorillas, Dian Fossey, Bwindi gorilla
Bagoole seals deal with Congos AS Vita
Brazzaville :: Congo | 3 days ago
Credibility Johnson Bagoole has joined AS Vita club of DR Congo after a three-year stint with Rwandan side Attraco. Bagoole is reported to have passed trials at the Congo premier league side in Kinshasa ahead of the club�s pre-season tour of Cameroon. Vita Coach...
Tags: Johnson Bagoole, Congo, Brazzaville, AS Vita Club, Villa SC, CAF Champions League, Police FC, Raoul Shungu, allnews, Kinshasa
A burning issue in the climate change fight
Brazzaville :: Congo | 3 days ago
Credibility She lives in a camp for internal refugees just outside Goma, eastern Congo, has seven children to care for, has a problem with one of her feet, and feels she spends all day collecting firewood...On the uneven volcanic ground where she has pitched her...
Tags: carbon credits, climate change, Congo, black carbon, eastern congo, cooking stove, carbon dioxide, Brazzaville, Environment, Environmental issues with energy, Carbon finance, Carbon footprint, Carbon credit, Action on climate change
US Company Helps Fuel Congo War: UN Report
Brazzaville :: Congo | 4 days ago
Credibility Both sides of Congo war get funds from sale of minerals used in mobile phones. A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished...
Tags: U.N. Security Council, Democratic Republic of Congo, conflict miner, U.S, John Crawley, Nevada, mobile phones, eastern congo, Center for American Progress, DRC, Congo, Brazzaville, Coltan, Tantalum, African countries, Democratic Republic of the Congo, French-speaking countries, African Union member states, Conflict minerals, Least Developed Countries, War Conflict
ICC panel reverses Bemba release
Brazzaville :: Congo | 4 days ago
Credibility A decision granting former Congolese leader Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo conditional release while awaiting a war crimes trial was reversed, officials said. The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court based in The Hague,, Netherlands, issued its...
Tags: Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, ICC, war crimes, Congo, Brazzaville, War crime, Crime against humanity, Politics, Rebels, International Criminal Court investigations, International criminal law, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Genocide, International Criminal Court, Law Crime, War Conflict
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