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One of the things we can appreciate when we start to see the world as one single interconnected whole is the sometimes uncanny way in which we are all fundamentally connected. A previous post on another blog (”Violence Against Women In Different...
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Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as...
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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
Many of those fleeing...
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Sanction busters are smuggling 40 tonnes of gold annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations official has told the BBC.
Dino Mahtani said most...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Thousands...
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The United Nations will suspend operational support for certain Democratic Republic of Congo army units it believes have deliberately killed more than 60 civilians this...
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been putting women’s issues at the center of her work: speaking out forcefully against recent rapes in Guinea, leading a...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Rape as a weapon of war against men has begun to rise in Congo. The shocking plight of the women suffering what is likely the worst sexual violence in the world has...
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Italy and France have been accused of reneging on promises to increase aid to African nations.
Anti-poverty group One, set up by rock star Bono, said Italy had...
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The problems hounding the Congo have turned it into a volcano waiting to be erupt. It’s long tryst with wars have crushed the well- being of its people, leaving...
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Over five million people have died during the past decade as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Few people are aware of the unimaginable...
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Pressure from the international community is mounting on Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to have Ugandan troops out of Congolese territory but...
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An Interview With Robert Young Pelton
The following is an excerpt from News E-Magazine GlobalPundit.Org’s Interview with author( World’s Most Dangerous...
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Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been arrested in Belgium on a warrant for war crimes committed in the Central...
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At last Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have signed an agreement to end tension along their common border.
The tension resulted from the discovery,...
made popular May 13 2008
Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo believe that rising demand for ivory in China is to blame for an unprecedented wave of elephant poaching in one of the...
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The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned.
The allegations,...
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I wonder in which country one would accept a mass of 14,200 registered rape cases in two years, in one province only. Even worse: of which only 287 cases were taken to...
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The senseless and tragic killing of four vulnerable mountain gorillas has come as a shock to animal conservationists, not only endangering a hapless group but also...
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Mere bags of salt, machetes and bicycles are being used to exploit the greatest assets of the Congolese inhabitants, their exceptional rain forests. A small group of...
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