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Jul 19 2008, GlobalPunditOrg

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 Places, Raven ),traveller, knowledge seeker, NatGeo writer, documentary filmmaker,...

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Jan 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

Aviation is becoming safer every year and 2007 saw the lowest number of crashes in 44 years, an independent watchdog group said Wednesday.But the Geneva-based Aircraft Crashes Record Office said some countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

 
 
Jan 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

Last year was one of the safest in aviation history, with the lowest number of crashes in 44 years, an independent watchdog said Wednesday.There were 136 serious accidents in 2007, down from 164 crashes the previous year, the Aircraft Crashes Record...

 
 
Dec 24 2007 by AP0 Comments

KINSHASA, Congo _ Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies and sex slaves in Congo and children have been spotted marching in formation in the war-wracked east of the country over the past week, international charity...

 
 
Nov 30 2007 by AP0 Comments

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hopes to try to cool several explosive African conflicts and shore up faltering peace deals when she travels next week to Ethiopia, headquarters of the African Union, the State Department said Friday.In meetings in...

 
 
Nov 19 2007 by AP0 Comments

The State Department has begun looking for diplomats willing to take hundreds of unfilled positions at embassies and consulates in 15 dangerous countries after finding enough volunteers to avoid forcing some to go to Iraq.Having averted an employee...

 
 
Instablogs Club
Jan 9 2008 by Sunit0 Comments

The Rwandan radio, once a medium of killing, has now become a symbol of reconciliation in the ethnically divided African country. The radio broadcasts an immensely popular soap opera by the name of ‘Musekeweya’ or ‘New Dawn’, which reflects on...

 
 
Jan 3 2008 by Sunit0 Comments

It is utter frustration on my part that I am not able to write anything positive about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). The situation in the war ravaged Central African country is going from bad to worse with the head of the United...

 
 
Dec 24 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC)is escalating and with it the plight of thousands of helpless children. We have heard of wars involving child soldiers, most notably the war involving bitter neighbors Iraq and Iran, where thousands of...

 
 
Dec 13 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Deep ethnic division has been cited as the most prominent cause for Congo’s military an political mess, but there is more to it than just ethnic rivalry. The bleak situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC)is a perfect example of old African ...

 
 
Nov 12 2007 by Mandira0 Comments

Despite many efforts of United Nations and human right organizations in Africa, plenty of cases related to forced sexual intercourse still hits headlines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It had proved to become the biggest epicenter of one of the...

 
 
Apr 30 2007 by Irani0 Comments

It was in the last decades of the 20th century, loss of habitat, disease and poaching in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda has disappointingly led to the decreasing number of the gorillas in the last places where mountain gorillas still...

 
 
Jan 4 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

This space, dedicated to the issues related to the children of the world and the problems they are encountering, has been keeping tab of the pulse of our future harbingers, trying to do justice by giving voice to their cries. We highlighted major issues...

 
 
Citizen Voices (Opinion)
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Kanchan, Chandigarh
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...
made popular Aug 10 2007
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Kanchan, Chandigarh
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...
made popular Apr 12 2007
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Andre Leroux, Windhoek
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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Kevin, Columbia
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,...
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Trevor, Burlington
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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Ian, Liverpool
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,...
made popular Apr 28 2008
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Peter, Rome
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...
made popular Mar 25 2008
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