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The South American country of Peru is in a state of emergency. For four days, National Police forces have engaged Amazonian Indians in the peasant town of Bagua Grande. On Sunday, nine more officers died in bloody clashes raising the total police...
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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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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear...
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Looking at herself in the mirror, nine-year-old Helena squealed with delight at her reflection, standing upright with just the slightest support of her therapist. A...
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More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian...
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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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Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo–women who soldier on despite...
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For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.
made popular Aug 12 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Monday for Congolese youth to lead nationwide protests against massive corruption and rampant sexual violence in...
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One has to have some degree of sympathy for Hillary Clinton. She put off her ambitions for that of her husband’s and then was humiliated by him. A nomination and...
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Hillary Clinton on Monday showed a rare flash of public anger on a trip to Africa as a student asked for her husband’s views, putting him in his place by saying...
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For the past week a remarkable battle has been raging in the mountain forests of Eastern Congo. Park rangers entrusted with protecting some of the world’s most...
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It was around 11 p.m. when armed men burst into Kazungu Ziwa’s hut, put a machete to his throat and yanked down his pants. Mr. Ziwa is a tiny man, about four feet,...
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Congolese authorities have failed to prevent widespread rapes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report, citing U.N. data showing 7,703 cases of sexual violence by the...
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Rioting inmates raped around 20 female prisoners during a failed prison break in Democratic Republic of Congo’s violence-ravaged east, the country’s U.N....
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Last Memorial Day weekend, I watched Hotel Rwanda. This year, I watched Lumumba. If you are an African and you haven’t watched the following movies: Sankofa, Hotel...
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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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Hutu rebels have retaken positions they lost in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeepers say.
The UN says it has reports that FDLR rebels captured...
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At least 100 bodies of people killed by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of Joseph Kony have been discovered in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN...
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A traditional frontier of Eastern resistance towards counter-traditional Western influence, the Ukraine exemplifies a perfect platitude of supposedly balanced on-moment...
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Fresh fighting has erupted in Iraq a day after the country suffered one of its deadliest wave of bombings in recent months.
The violence comes just days after...
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Food prices are rising around the world. In an interview with ABC News, Gregory Barrow, senior public affairs officer at the World Food Program (WFP), said that...
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A heated dispute between two parents about what street gang their son should join resulted in one parent threatening to kill the other, Commerce City police say.
The...
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Every male, at some point in their life, has watched some kung fu badass beat up a room full of bad guys and said, “I want to learn that!”
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Unidentified relatives of Indian army soldier Shabir Ahmed Malik, who was killed in a gunbattle, comfort each other during his funeral procession in Dab, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) north east of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Gunbattles...
