Congo (Brazzaville) congo (Brazzaville) congo (Brazzaville) local long form Republique du congo former Middle congo, congo/Brazzaville, congo. government type http://www.ezilon.com/world/countries/congo_(brazzaville)/index.shtml
CARPE Congo Basin News Page congo since 1998 has been divided between government and rebel-held sides.Rebels backed by Rwanda s and Uganda s armies hold much of the north and east, http://carpe.umd.edu/congo_basin_news/news_article.asp?article=65
CARPE Congo Basin News Page KINSHASA, congo (AP) congo s government confirmed for the first time Thursday that congo s government holds the west, including the capital, Kinshasa, http://carpe.umd.edu/congo_basin_news/news_article.asp?article=39
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Congo-Brazzaville Country Analysis Brief Links to other US government sites CIA World Factbook congo-Brazzaville US Agency for International Development in Africa http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/congo.html
Extractions: After several years of recurrent civil war, the Republic of Congo has experienced relative political stability since 2003. The oil industry has provided the major share of government revenues and exports since the 1980s, accounting for approximately two-thirds of Congo's real gross domestic product (GDP). In s pite of its oil wealth, Congo has experienced budgetary shortfalls as a result of public sector expenditures, slumps in world oil prices (1998-1999), and armed conflicts (1997, 1998-1999, and 2002). Because the Congolese government is frequently accused of misusing oil revenues, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the country to enforce transparency and improve public finances. In October 2004, Congo pledged to adhere to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary scheme designed to increase transparency in the oil and mining sectors.
FORWARD : News for congo s government and a disaster for the local diamond industry. even before the date scheduled in its agreement with congo s government. http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.04.27/news4.html
Extractions: FORWARD CORRESPONDENT Responding to allegations that an Israeli firm underpaid the Congolese government for the exclusive rights to mine diamonds in the country, the Democratic Republic of Congo this past Saturday revoked the monopoly of the Israeli company, International Diamond Industry, or IDI. The U.N. report, issued this past week, also alleges that it was Congo's desire to have "access to Israeli military equipment and intelligence" that sealed the original deal for the monopoly. The U.N. report rebuked the monopoly agreement as a "nightmare" for Congo's government and a "disaster" for the local diamond industry. The U.N. report does not mention so-called conflict diamonds, gems traded by rebel groups in Sierra Leone, Angola and Congo. But with Israeli traders planning to increase their involvement in the trade of rough diamonds, the report underscores the political sensitivities surrounding Africa's warring governments and rebel groups, and the exploitation that surrounds African mines, which still supply the majority of the world's diamonds. The money the Israeli firm was to have paid would have gone toward the purchase of arms for the country's ongoing battle with rebel groups aligned with Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia. For its part, IDI said the exclusive contract it signed with the late Laurent Kabila, the father and predecessor of Congo's current president, still stands. The firm hopes the U.N. Security Council will add to the report a supplement containing the firm's clarifications, clearing it of any wrongdoing and restoring a diamond trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Boat Collision Kills At Least 160 In Congo congo s government blamed a violent storm for the collision on MaiNdombe congo s government reopened the congo River to commercial traffic in April http://www.able2know.com/forums/about15726.html
Afrol News - "Emergency Troops In Congo Not Enough" negotiations towards the establishment of a legitimate transitional Congogovernment. Thus, these countries government must also be addressed. http://www.afrol.com/articles/12849
Extractions: "Emergency troops in Congo not enough" afrol News , 14 June The French-led multinational force being deployed to Bunia in north-eastern Congo (DRC) "is totally insufficient," according to a new report. This small force could not meet the threats of genocide in the Ituri region as it covered a far too small area. The district of Ituri in eastern Congo Kinshasa (DRC) is experiencing spiralling violence bordering on genocide. The crisis urgently needs to be stopped, notes the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think-tank, in a report released today. Although a French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force (IEMF) is being deployed to Bunia, Ituri's administrative centre, this was "totally insufficient. A much bigger UN intervention force is needed, that operates over a greater geographic area and stays much longer than the few months currently envisaged," ICG concluded.
Congo Cannibalism Claim Provides First Challenge With congo s government exerting little control outside the capital Kinshasa,and its legal system incompetent, Mr Bemba s case may seem a perfect curtain http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-10-2003-37032.asp
Extractions: By Guardian Newspapers, 3/10/2003 Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) controls much of northern Congo, has been referred to the international criminal court by Congo's government and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), a French non-governmental organisation. The second deals with the MLC's incursion into the Central African Republic last year, at the invitation of its besieged president, Ange-Felix Patasse. The FIDH has accused both Mr Patasse and Mr Bemba of sponsoring war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the massacre of civilians outside the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui.
A Journal Of A Tour In The Congo Free State By Marcus Dorman Having left England with a prejudice against the government of the congo FreeState and returned with a very strong feeling in its favour, I feel however http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=5801
Global Witness congo s Chance ALL BUT LOST Washington Post Monday, October 28, 2002 The problem is that congo s weak government, headquartered in Kinshasa, http://www.globalwitness.org/press_releases/article.php?id=22
Attacks On The Press 2003: Africa such as the war in neighboring congo, government corruption, Council headPrivat Rutazibwa, editor of the progovernment Rwanda News Agency, http://www.cpj.org/attacks03/africa03/rwanda.html
Extractions: N ine years after the 1994 genocide, which killed about 800,000 people, Rwanda ended its transitional ruling period with a constitutional referendum, followed by the first presidential and multiparty parliamentary elections in the country since its independence in 1962. The transitional governments control of the broadcast media and its repressive tactics against the independent press helped it consolidate power in all three polls. Nevertheless, the new constitution upholds the principle of press freedom, and a new media law allows for the introduction of private radio and television stations. A directive from Rwandas Supreme Press Council mandating that all candidates receive equal treatment in broadcast and print media was well respected in slots officially allotted for election coverage, according to the EU observers. But during other news, both "the written press and the broadcast media treated the candidates unequally," reserving more positive coverage for Kagame, said EU observers. Kangura newspaper, both received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The court said that life imprisonment would also have been the appropriate punishment for Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, an RTLM board member and former leader of a Hutu extremist political party, but it was bound by a previous ruling that his sentence should be reduced if he was convicted, because his rights had been violated while in detention. The court therefore reduced Barayagwizas sentence to 35 years, eight of which he had already served.
Extractions: Lépouse du Chef de lEtat congolais, présidente de la Mission des Premières Dames dAfrique pour la Paix, Antoinette Sassou Nguesso, sest entretenue récemment à New York (USA) avec le secrétaire général adjoint de lOrganisation des Nations Unies (ONU) chargé des opérations de maintien de la paix, Jean-Marie Guéhenno. Les questions de règlement de conflits étaient au centre de leur rencontre. Egalement présidente de la Fondation Congo-Assistance (FCA), Mme Sassou Nguesso a fait part à son interlocuteur de la volonté des femmes à s'impliquer plus que jamais dans les missions de prévention ou ...
