Congo news (23)
NewsvineFireworks terrorize war weary Congo town
Alarabiya.net [AE] : 1 hour ago
Independence day fireworks in Goma sent terrified Congolese sprinting for cover on Tuesday in fear that war had broken out again in their eastern city. Officials had organized the display to highlight efforts to end more than a decade of conflict in ... ...read article
Independence day fireworks in Goma sent terrified Congolese sprinting for cover on Tuesday in fear that war had broken out again in their eastern city. Officials had organized the display to highlight efforts to end more than a decade of conflict in ... ...read article
Chinese soldiers leave for UN peace mission in DR. Congo
People’s Daily : China [CN] : 17 hours ago
A 100-member team of Chinese soldiers left Lanzhou Thursday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for an eight-month UN peace-keeping operation. They formed the first batch of China's tenth peace-keeping team to the DRC since 2003. They will ... ...read article
A 100-member team of Chinese soldiers left Lanzhou Thursday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for an eight-month UN peace-keeping operation. They formed the first batch of China's tenth peace-keeping team to the DRC since 2003. They will ... ...read article
AFRICA: River blindness drug trial launched
UN : OCHA IRIN Breaking News [INT] : 1 day ago
DAKAR, 1 July 2009 (IRIN) - Researchers are launching a clinical trial with 1,500 people infected with onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Liberia, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to test a remedy that could help stop transmission, ... ...read article
DAKAR, 1 July 2009 (IRIN) - Researchers are launching a clinical trial with 1,500 people infected with onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Liberia, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to test a remedy that could help stop transmission, ... ...read article
Oxfam says 1.4 mln homeless as crisis hits Africa
People’s Daily : World [CN] : 1 day ago
Over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their homes so far this year as a result of significant increasing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Sudan and Somalia, international aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday. As ... ...read article
Over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their homes so far this year as a result of significant increasing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), Sudan and Somalia, international aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday. As ... ...read article
Patrice Lumumba’s Independence Day speech, June 30, 1960
San Francisco Bay View [US] : 1 day ago
'The basic cause of most of the trouble in the Congo right now is the intervention of outsiders — the fighting that is going on over the mineral wealth of the Congo and over the strategic position that the Congo represents on the African continent. ... ...read article
'The basic cause of most of the trouble in the Congo right now is the intervention of outsiders — the fighting that is going on over the mineral wealth of the Congo and over the strategic position that the Congo represents on the African continent. ... ...read article
Implementation of peace process in eastern DR Congo a mixed bag UN envoy
UN : Security Council [INT] : 1 day ago
Although strides have been made in implementing the peace process in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ending the deadly conflict there between the Government and a militia the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes ... ...read article
Although strides have been made in implementing the peace process in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ending the deadly conflict there between the Government and a militia the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes ... ...read article