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But she was amazed to see an African Grey Congo parrot perched on a water butt as she hung out washing in the garden.

If it has not turned out so, it has much to do with the toxic legacy of Congo's relations with the west.

"They [western institutions] are wrong to ask Congo to remove the state guarantee. That is blackmail, " he said.

She said her goal is to start a foundation to help homeless children in Congo.

We can only ask the people of Congo to do more if we the donors are ready to ask the same of ourselves.

But if the peacekeepers were to leave in a hurry, Congo could descend again into mayhem.

He said the base was in an area called Congo, on the outskirts of the port of Kismayo.

Scottish engineers brought crates of it up the Congo and Zambezi rivers decades before Coca-Cola set foot on the continent.

Leaders from southern Africa said they were ready to send soldiers to Congo "if and when necessary" , raising fears of a regional war.

Tshisekedi says dictatorship has no place in a democracy and the world should know that democracy is now in Congo.

Wu Zexian, China's ambassador to Congo, said he did not know much about the operations of Chinese smelters in Katanga.

He was a pharmaceutical researcher by training, but he had been picked by his company to join an agricultural project in Congo.

Surveys in Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea and Mozambique have found a very high prevalence levels of risk factors for these diseases.

Congo is now at the bottom of global measures of both health and wealth, behind even Rwanda, its troublesome neighbour.

"It's isolated from the main forest block of the Congo Basin and probably has been like this for at least 10, 000 years, " Plumptre said.

Aids workers and victims say the only real way to stop the rapes is to end the many years of conflict that Congo has suffered.

During a 2008 expedition on the Congo, scientists looked for the "monster" fish upstream and down, to see how far it could travel.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo , Ethiopia , Libya, Sri_ Lanka, Sudan and Vietnam .

When UN-sponsored elections took place in 2006, the first in four decades, Congo seemed to have embraced democracy.

As a teenage boat mechanic, he worked up and down the chocolate-brown Congo river, singing songs to small crowds wherever he docked.

She was a sensation in her first leading role, as the Congo goddess Tondelayo in MGM's White Cargo.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo, Ethiopia , Libya, Sudan and Vietnam.

The aim of cataloguing these atrocities was to help end impunity and to win justice for the countless victims of Congo's overlapping wars.

behavior of the UN in the Congo problem, this was no longer possible.

Three top officials from the DR Congo are injured in an attack outside a TV station in London.

Or I could be the rogue anthropologist, battling pythons down in the Congo!

Years of war and mismanagement have left Congo one of Africa's most impoverished countries, in spite of its mineral wealth.

From Congo and Sudan to Pakistan, many "states" are likely to see a move towards a hybrid public-private system of governance.

Nearer to the close of polls the Republican also saw Iraq, Namibia, Congo, Sudan, Algeria and a few other countries offer him support.

in eastern Congo in recent years some 80% of fistula cases reported in women are thought to be the result of such crimes.

Hardwood trees are turned into charcoal, filling the bags of men careering toward a Congo market.

Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo are to set up a joint investigation into a gold smuggling network operating in the region.

The report charges that Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda were all involved in mass killings in the jungles of eastern Congo.

Over the last few years I got to know a few parts of Africa well, from going to school in Botswana, to making films in Republic of Congo.

He also set out a string of political demands, including government troops in rebe dismissed l held areas of eastern Congo being disarmed.

Unable to guarantee that the minerals they acquire are untainted by conflict, some have stopped buying from Congo altogether.

More than 60contracts between private firms (nearly all of them foreign) and Congo's state mining companies were to be reviewed.

But "hybrid" courts require some commitment from the local government; Congo's rulers do not show much commitment to tackling rape.

Most of Congo has been a bit more secure since he was first elected in 2006.

only a few escaped across the nearby borders to Congo or Burundi.

And Congo is not the only beneficiary of China's hunger for natural resources.

A plane has crashed in Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least five passengers, officials say.

Civil war, deforestation, and poaching have all but obliterated the gorilla population of the Congo Basin, for instance, and the U.

Four members of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Olympic delegation have gone missing in London, reports say.

Votes have been counted in a presidential election in the west African state of Congo-Brazzaville.

Drawn by Congo's abundance of industrial metals, China was the newest and potentially largest of the country's foreign investors.

IF EVER there were an urgent case for change in Congo after years of neglect and war, it is Kinshasa's general hospital.

But a more prickly issue is the continuing presence in Congo of the remnants of the Hutu militias who perpetrated the massacres of 1994.

If Goma were to fall, the whole UN mission in eastern Congo would be put into question.

I mean , I thought you were in the Congo or Philadelphia or something .

Congo is the latest of many African countries to consider such a deal.

Nor can any other African country match Congo's untapped reserves of base and precious metals.

If Congo were to win, Angola's position as Africa's second biggest exporter of crude oil after Nigeria might well be threatened.

Few will be surprised to find Somalia, Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo among the bottom 10.

Kenya's biggest supermarket chain, Nakumatt, which recently opened a branch in Kigali, plans to set up a mall on the Congo-Rwanda border.

Last December, the United States supported a military assault on the LRA by the armies of Uganda, Congo Kinshasa, and South Sudan.

The UN's World Food Program says it's delivered some of its first food supplies to the rebel-held town of Rutshuru in eastern Congo.

YESTERDAY it was Afghanistan and Congo. Today it Coted'Ivoire and Libya. Violence, it seems, is always with us, like poverty.

To Australia, Congo and Brazil ruthless fight of opponents in fatal race where all is possible is necessary.

In this climate, roads last only 10 years without maintenance, and the Congo has no capacity in this regard.

Children accused of witchcraft number in the thousands in the DR Congo, the Central African Republic, southern Nigeria, and parts of Angola.

Mr Kasongo said Congo wanted to ensure the deal met the criteria for "fair commerce" and was willing to address donors' concerns.

Eastern Congo is a living hell where it is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.

Congo (DRC) are almost equal in size to Western Europe, but the road is poor infrastructure, a few hundred miles of paved roads.

Telltale mud Bayon and his colleagues have been studying sediment at the mouth of the Congo River.

These men are part of a growing Chinese presence in Congo that has already flexed some impressive economic muscle.

Yet Congo's historic western creditors are reluctant to write it off only to see new debt contracted to China on commercial terms.

In the Ivory Coast it was the Burkinabe immigrants; in Zimbabwe, the whites; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Tutsi.

But let me think: in Congo, a new generation of writers is budding, inspired by award-wining writer and intellectual Alain Mabanckou.

Industry experts say that smelters in Congo can produce a tonne of copper for about $3, 500.

And if Kenya cannot save a forest on which its capital depends, what hope is there for Congo's rainforest?

We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in the Congo.

Hitherto, this has usually been done at the request of the state itself, as in Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Congo.

The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century.

The French head of a fact-finding delegation due to visit Congo has warned against a "premature" exit.

It also threatens to transmit shockwaves through a seam of fragile and strife-torn African states from Sudan to the Congo.

Congo's President Kabila is now using them as proxies against General Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP).

At the end of its colonization, there were nine Congolese educated to university level in the Belgian Congo.

Elsewhere, from Haiti to the Congo to East Timor, it would work with the United Nations to support lasting peace.

Given the parlous state of Congo's judiciary, raising the number of prosecutions may not help.

Congo (DRC) eastern rivers, lakes and boat travel is the main form of local residents.

He is treading softly, knowing that none of the conflicts in Congo, Somalia, Sudan or Zimbabwe has an easy solution.

But in the long term, he says, more pressure must be put on Congo's government to tackle rape.

As China, Congo, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan have learned, the poliovirus does not respect national borders.

India is the third-biggest contributor of UN peacekeepers to the continent, helping clamp down on civil wars in Sudan and Congo.

Mr Kabila now wants to turn Congo into an economic powerhouse on the back of vast industrial mining.

The leaders of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army failed to appear at peace talks on the Sudan-Uganda border, Congo border on Sunday.

When President Obama signs financial reform, we're likely to start hearing (and thinking) much more about Congo's conflict minerals.

Cameroon forests contain some of the Congo Basin most biologically diverse and most threatened forests.

The beta-pleated sheet configuration confers upon amyloid the optical and tinctorial properties that it shows when stained with Congo red.

He says most of the Congolese refugees in Uganda are dispersed in a dozen villages along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

With Congo's economy in tatters, its government near-bankrupt and his popularity plummeting, the young president needs a victory.

Congo River: The Congo River, earlier recognized as the Zaire River, is in Western Central Africa.

Congo is also one of the last places on earth with tribes of cannibals.

The original strategy for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was to concentrate vaccination in three provinces.

It is no good China planting kingdoms of eucalyptus at home while bulldozing Congo's rainforest to grow palm oil.

The cultural art and creative youth centre is based in Kampala, Uganda with a representative office in Congo.

Congo will gradually repay China from the profits of a mining joint venture - and supply it with copper and cobalt.

Two United Nations personnel have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack by militants in the northwest of the country.

International mining executives have been rushing to Kinshasa, Congo's capital, to badger friendly officials.

At least 163 people are reported dead after two boats crashed in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the fourth leg of her seven-nation Africa tour.

In contrast to his patchy performance in Congo and elsewhere, Mr Moreno-Ocampo is trusted by many Kenyans.

Five years after the Second Congo War officially came to an end, peace remains precarious, especially in eastern parts of the country.

NO ONE doubts the scale of the war in Congo. Ten African countries dispatched troops there in 1998.

Magma churns and gushes in the lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa's most active volcanos, in Goma, Congo.

Eleven people died when a twin-engine aircraft crashed Saturday into thick jungle near Congo's border with Cameroon in West Africa.

In return, Congo would let several thousand Rwandan troops cross the border and smash up the Hutus' FDLR.

In a remote region in northeastern Congo, a rain of terror was unleashed on villagers by the Lord's Resistance Army.

It says he later joined a rebel group across the border in Congo, the FDLR, which has been wreaking havoc on the civilian population.

Hanlong is waiting for the Cameroon and Congo governments to approve Sundance's Mbalam project before moving forward with a bid.

A Bantu language of the Kongo used as a lingua franca in southern Congo, western Zaire, and northern Angola.

THERE is nothing new in Congo's staggering wealth benefiting the few and bringing misery to the many.

And here we have the countries in collapse and war, like Afghanistan, Somalia, parts of Congo, Darfur.

The earliest known case of HIV was from a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Its language was Lingala, the tongue of the Congo river-trade; its religion was Catholic, with spiritualist embellishments.

Kosovo is at peace, but the war in eastern Congo, which began in 1993, has never ended.

The size of Western Europe , with almost no paved roads , Congo is the sucking vortex where Africa's heart should be .

In 1964 he and his men saved the whites of the town of Stanleyville, in Congo, from being slaughtered by a drug-crazed mob.

The presidents of Congo and Rwanda met at the weekend, although it is unclear what came of it.

The plane crashed on a ridge in eastern Congo while on its way from Kisangani to Bukavu, on Congo's eastern border with Rwanda.

Congo, then, is not a place you'd normally associate with a yuppie.

"They were profiteers and speculators, " said one local businessman. "Congo got nothing from them. "

French businessmen came in Mr Sarkozy's slipstream, eyeing minerals and timber in neighbouring Congo, for which Rwanda is a conduit.

The Ugandans, some of them veterans of peacekeeping in Somalia, fought alongside troops from the armies of Congo and south Sudan.

We have seen such a tragedy unfold before, in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy.

Brightly colored paintings by Congo the chimpanzee are going on sale at a prestigious London auction house.

WHO advises that there is no indication of the need for any restrictions on travel or trade with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

That is an important place to investigate; up to 5m people have died as a result of Congo's wars.

"It's not enough just to send money, " he says, sitting in his office in Dungu, in the remote north-eastern part of Congo.

Watters said one pastor in the Congo thought he could contract AIDS by touching people with the disease or going into their rooms.

Comic-book of corruption, covering everything from state-sponsored brutality in Colombia to the ravaging of Congo's natural resources.

The bonobo is a type of ape. It lives only in the Congo and it's one of our closest living relatives.

The three poachers told police she had been snatched from the forest in the Congo, but they didn't kidnap the baby themselves.

Here are Congo red stained deposits of amyloid in the adrenal cortex. Amyloid may collect in adrenal as well as other organs.

Congo red stain has been performed on the myocardium in a case of amyloidosis.

The dusty streets of Goma, North Kivu's capital and a mining hub, illustrate Congo's ills.

The International Criminal Court is investigating crimes, including rape, in Congo but gathering necessary evidence is hard.

Such fears are not entirely groundless if the recent conduct of some of Congo's neighbours is anything to go by.

New fighting in Congo has ignited fears of a cholera epidemic adding to the misery .

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War in Africa. By Jason Stearns.

Some companies worry that the new American law will force them to stop buying any minerals from Congo.

Filmed in the Belgian Congo, production was halted due to the cast developing amoebic dysentery and malaria.

"Congo, " he said and gave me a weak smile.

Doctors are struggling to contain the outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern capital of Goma.

Retaining the unwelcome distinction of the world's worst city in which to live was Brazzaville, Congo.

Increasing number of cases are being reported from Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Togo and Uganda.

Who funds the bloodshed with our hunger for the latest computer processor and smart phone produced with minerals from Congo?

Beijing has signed multi-billion dollar resources-for-infrastructure deals with Angola, Congo and West African countries.

In return, Congo would cede majority rights in a joint venture to develop copper and cobalt concessions.

All around Lubumbashi, the capital of Congo's copper-rich province of Katanga, there are signs of a sudden Chinese invasion.

Congo is now the stage for the largest humanitarian disaster in the world -- far larger than the crisis in Sudan.

There definitely is a growing desire to use Inga 3 electricity in the Congo itself, not export it.

The Inga I and II dams on the Congo river have generated a fraction of the power they were meant to.

The wars in Congo have given the whole country a disastrous image, in the outside world and, in a way, rightly so.

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In recent years, Chinese workers have been kidnapped in Cameroon, Congo and Afghanistan.

The Congo has been torn by the use of rape as a weapon, with long-term impacts on mothers and children both physically and psychologically.

The government would rather Congo were not known as the world's rape capital, but it shows little interest in real change.

Metorex's copper and cobalt assets are spread around the "copper belt" between Congo and Zambia.

At the other end of the scale, war-smitten Somaliais worst, barely beaten by Congo, Chad and Sudan.

The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives.

Council on the morning of Congo (DRC) situation in the meeting unanimously passed a resolution.

When Angola's government first started expelling Congolese en masse, Congo's president, Joseph Kabila, complained.

Then there are the unpredictable outbreaks of diseases like Ebola in Congo or Marburg in Angola which need a specialized technical response.

Meanwhile, Brazil's army is busy carrying out real, important, peacekeeping missions in difficult places like Haiti and Congo.

One dramatic example of spotlighting a crisis occurred when mountain gorillas were found slaughtered in Congo's war-torn wilderness.

Pressure groups have accused foreign companies of fuelling conflict in Congo by purchasing minerals from armed groups.

Made with: At least 5, 000 pieces of colonial and post-colonial African currencies (including Belgian, French, Dutch, Republic of Congo).

but its only indictment relating to CAR events is of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a warlord from Congo.

The Nile River is shared by ten different states; Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and the DR Congo.

This ignored the crimes of others, external and internal, in CAR, as well as any misdeeds by Mr Bemba in Congo.

Tyrants in Burma, militias in eastern Congo, and Al Qaeda disciples won't be impressed by a revamped council.

Either way, the Congo basin is " haemorrhaging elephants" , says TRAFFIC, which monitors trade in wildlife.

The Congo (DRC) Department of Transportation 8 is said in a statement that the accident led to 127 deaths, 51 survived.

Redmond said gorillas were crucial in maintaining the lifecycle of the rainforests in the Congo basin.

In addition, reports had been surfacing from that part of Congo about people with the disease.

In particular, I'm concerned that Apple is getting tantalum, tungsten, tin, and gold from Eastern Congo through its suppliers.

The town's economic boom of recent years has been fuelled by war and plunder, particularly of the rich mines in eastern Congo.

That's when armed groups began behaving like mafias, battling for control of the minerals in eastern Congo.

I have come full circle to that gentle, childlike wonderment that I had in the Congo.

Britain and France are calling for an additional 3, 000 United Nations troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the U.

That sounds fanciful: Congo, the size of western Europe, is covered in thick jungle and has almost no roads.

In the below video segment from the television series "Life, " you can see western lowland gorillas at a site in the Congo Basin.

A victim of a mass rape poses for a portrait in Fizi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

A senior government official says the BBC is biased towards "[Hutu] fugitives in Europe and in the forests of Congo" .

Officials say at least 72 people are missing after a boat capsized on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congo's GHI score fell by over 60%, the worst of any country.

Local production of RUTF paste is already under way in several countries including Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger.

Supporters say the $80 billion project on the Congo River could double the amount of electricity available on the African continent.

One of the largest and most populous countries in Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also perhaps the most star-crossed.

The kit was tested in Chad, Liberia, Congo Brazzaville, Jamaica, Guyana, Maldives and Iraq before being launched.

Fay endured a yearlong trek across African forests from Congo to Gabon, surveying the region's still pristine landscape.

He just returned from a two-week trip to Darfur, Chard (Chad) and the Democratic Republic of Congo with a UN peacekeeping of official.

Despite this, the benefits for DR Congo are limited. The project employs less than 400 workers here.

Mobutu, who governed Congo for 32 years, lived a life of excess while most people struggled to survive.

The drugs nifurtimox and eflornithine will be given out in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"If this were the Congo, you would be in big trouble, " he says laughing.

Families in this part of Congo, who have endured the deadliest conflict since World War II, have already lost homes and loved ones.

This month the UN named Congo as the least developed country in the world.

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He wants Rwanda to become a trading hub between Congo and east Africa. He has scrapped immigration procedures for east Africans.

They confirmed that it was the cause of outbreaks in humans in the Republic of Congo in 2003 and 2005.

Officials from the United Nations mission in Congo could not be reached for comment.

Six men were killed in an apparent assassination or coup attempt in Congo.

And we are proud to call this son of the Congo our fellow American.

Today Zaire is known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

So far, Uganda, Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon, Sudan and Coted'Ivoire outbreak incidents of human infection.

At the very top of the list were Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cape Verde, each of which received more than 20 condoms per man per year.

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The number of endangered primates has stabilized at some 780 in Bwindi and the Virunga Mountains parks of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Congo would like to work with China to push the bilateral relations to another new level.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo peacekeepers escorted villagers travelling long distances to a market in North Kivu.

A crash in Congo's cobalt and copper mining industry, however, has as many political as commercial implications.

Chad , the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community .

There is much concern about Congo, where a cholera outbreak is spreading down the Congo River from the city of Mbandaka.

Take Congo; it highlights both how horribly common rape is, and how hard it is to document and measure, let alone stop.

The United Nations says government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out mass rapes of at least 47 women.

But Congo's mining sector has long been renowned as a harsh and poorly regulated place.

Third, conflict spills over borders, with devastating effects: the Congo is just one example.

The Congo River and its tributaries have formed a complete water system.

Since then, it has spread to neighboring countries including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He hoped that strengthens Congo basin forest resources the integrated management.

But nobody from Congo's equally trigger-happy pro-government forces is in the dock.

HIV can be traced back to villages along the Congo River in the 1950's.

Doctor Kabamba then recalled the elections held in Congo two years ago, the most democratic elections the country has ever had.

Doctors are struggling to contain the outbreak as sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern capital of Goma.

He cites a project in six towns in Congo, where letting people decide how budgets were spent boosted tax collection.

In countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Burundi, the percentage of population connected is around 0. 5%.

The effect of the stearate stabilizers on the dehydrochlorination of CPE was investigated by Congo Red Method.

Shasha's population is about 10, 000, twice what it was in 1994, and its story is, writ small, that of eastern Congo.

Thunderstorms cluster in the centre of continents in the tropics, with the Congo basin standing out.

Congo makes highly positive comments on China's active role in international and regional affairs.

Humanitarian agencies in Congo report high levels of rape in areas that are quite peaceful now.

A report she edited about violence in Congo was published posthumously.

Video : The wild Bonobo lives in central Africa, in the jungle encircled by the Congo River .

The east, south and Congo (cloth) a neighbour, north and Cameroon, equatorial guinea borders.

Akonga, was born in Kinshasa, Congo, Central Academy of Fine Arts, canvas master degree, now taking doctor degree in contemporary canvas.

It confirms that thunderstorms are mainly a tropical phenomenon - and the Congo basin is the global hotspot.

Congo held a more or less peaceful election in October 2006, since when the main opposition leader has been hounded into exile.

Some speculate that, Congo included, the entire Albertine basin may yield even more than Sudan's 6 billion barrels of proven reserves.

The creditors are due to meet in the French capital next week to discuss Congo.

She also said that the current Congo (Brazzaville) the WHO, UNICEF and other agencies help, has started to take response measures.

But in Congo the court system is in pieces.

Today tensions between these two groups continue to play out in the Congo.

Wars in Europe had boosted demand for Congo's copper, gold, tin, rubber and cotton.

TYPICAL company in Congo with a gross profit margin of 20% faces a tax bill equivalent to 340% of profits.

Katanga has been largely spared by DR Congo's war, yet mining giants are only now considering starting large-scale mining there.