Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Joseph Kabila
Joseph KabilaPresident
(pronounced "JOE-seff ka-BEE-la")
"We need to have peace in the Congo. The priority is that the force...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa): the African World War
The Conflict
Conflict continued in the Congo following the 1997 civil war that brought Laurent Kabila to power. The many differ...
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Unrest and Assassination in Congo-Kinshasa
The Conflict
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa, is the third largest country in Africa. Its immense mineral wealth and plentiful natura...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) originally emerged on February 23, 1885, three days before the end of the Berlin Conference, as the International Associati...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
POPULATION 55,225,478ROMAN CATHOLIC 43 percentPROTESTANT 22 percentINDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN (INCLUDING KIMBANGUIST CHURCH) 30 percentMUSLIM 1.5 percentTRADITIONAL 3.5 per...
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UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) - More than 100 Sri Lankan
peacekeepers have been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse
in Haiti and will be sent home Saturday, the United Nations
said, in the lates...
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Area: 2,344,858 sq km (905,355 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 59,320,000Capital:
Kinshasa
Head of state and government:
President
Joseph
Kabila
Violence in parts of the eastern
Democratic Repub...
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Chinese-run smuggling rings based in Africa are responsible for illegal ivory imports nearly doubling in the past decade, according to a report published Thursday.The Cambridge-based wildlife trade...
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Myanmar's military government has agreed to name an official to
deal with the U.N. children's agency on the issue of child soldiers,
the U.N. special representative for children and armed con...
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Kampala (dpa) - The United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday
that tens of thousands of Congolese refugees crossed into Uganda
Monday following renewed fighting between the...
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New York (dpa) - More than 43 million children were kept out of
schools in 30 countries where continued fighting ravaged their lands
in 2006, a United Nations report on chil...
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Kampala (dpa) - A former senior commander of Uganda's notorious
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who defected from the rebels about two
weeks ago was flown from eastern Democrat...
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KINSHASA, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Humanitarian agencies in the
east of Democratic Republic of Congo have secured the release of
more than 200 child soldiers from pro-government militia, the
U.N. childr...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Joseph Kabila
The Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa): the African World War
Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti accused of abuse
