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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 country’s war-torn national parks.
Fourteen elephants have been slaughtered in as many...
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Congolese rebels said Tuesday they were pulling back their forces to allow talks with the army, whose soldiers were fleeing and even fighting their own allies as any...
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AP, Luofu
Rebels steadily advanced in eastern Congo on Tuesday, and fleeing government soldiers even fought with their allies as army control in the region broke down, witnesses...
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AP, Amsterdam
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has cleared the way to begin its first trial in January.
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AP, Luofu
Witnesses say Congolese soldiers are fighting militiamen deep in rebel-held territory.
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In the past few months tensions have flared again in the Western region of Congo. A lawless place with little to no government control, this region has often been...
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A proposed U.N. resolution would increase the 17,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in conflict-wracked Congo by about 3,100 troops and police, according to the draft...
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AP, Kanyabayonga
On one side of this mountaintop ghost town, a line of black-booted rebels approaches on foot with rockets and tin boxes of ammunition, seizing new territory with each...
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AP, Goma
The U.N. says the Congolese army and rebels have engaged in some of the worst clashes in a week despite the rebel leader’s promise to support a cease-fire.
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AP, Jomba
The U.N.’s special envoy on Congo met the Central African country’s main rebel leader for the first time Sunday in a bid to end the crisis, as the U.N....
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AP, Goma
U.N. officials in Congo say the world body’s special envoy is on his way to meet the Central African country’s main rebel leader in a bid to end the...
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Renewed fighting between rebels and government troops broke out in eastern Congo on Saturday, as a U.N. special envoy flew in for emergency talks to try to end a crisis...
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AP, Goma
A U.N. special envoy will meet with the president of Congo Saturday to try to end the fighting between army and rebels since August that has displaced 250,000 people in...
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AP, Luanda
A special U.N. representative is preparing for talks with the rebel leader fighting government forces in eastern Congo.
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AP, Kiwanja
The United Nations began distributing food Friday deep in rebel-held territory in eastern Congo, the first large-scale delivery in the area since fighting broke out in...
made popular Nov 14 2008
AP, Kiwanja
The United Nations has begun its first large-scale food delivery in eastern Congo’s rebel territory since fighting broke out in late October.
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AP, New York
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he will support a U.N. plan to send 3,000 more troops to Congo but said the force must have better leadership and...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he will support a U.N. plan to send 3,000 more troops to Congo but said the force must have better leadership and...
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AP, Kibati
Rebecca Nyiringindi scanned the sprawling refugee camp in eastern Congo, searching for just one person among the thousands of hungry and homeless.
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The road that leads into rebel-controlled Congo begins with a makeshift roadblock made from the corpses of two government soldiers strewn across the dark volcanic...
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AP, Goma
Angola announced Wednesdsay it is mobilizing troops to send to neighboring Congo, heightening fears that the fighting in this central African nation will engulf other...
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So far it were humans facing the heat of the illegitimate war forced on them by war mongers in Congo, it is now turn for innocent animals to suffer from the same, as...
made popular Sep 5 2007
The guns they hold are not to protect humans but to protect animals from poachers and rebel militia. Armed rangers take on the difficult task to protect the apes in...
made popular Aug 11 2007
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
The political unrest in Congo has resulted in trouble for the wildlife there and the militia has threatened to kill the rare mountain gorilla in the Virunga National...
made popular May 23 2007
While on one hand, the conservationists are concerned of the disappearing of the rare eastern Congo mountain gorilla due to the rebels’ killing and eating them,...
made popular Mar 2 2007
In a regime distraught with civil war, there remains no compassion for endangered species as they are poached and hunted for lucrative gains and bush meat.
Rebels in...
made popular Jan 18 2007
Hippo teeth and meat are very lucrative for the poachers, and they kill the animals randomly and indiscriminately. As a result of this widespread poaching, Hippos in...
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Virunga National Park:
This undated image provided by the Zoological Society of London, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, shows an okapi in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo proving that the species is still surviving there despite over a decade of civil...
