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In Congo, Hillary Clinton Suggests Government Ownership of Industry Would be a Good Thing Wednesday, August 12, 2009 By Adam Brickley (CNSNews.com) - In a television interview Monday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that it would be a good thing for the government to take an ownership interest in industry.

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Arrest of Kenyan Exposes Massive Global Arms Trade The East African Africa News February 25, 2002 Monday Kenya L AST WEEKEND'S arrest of Kenyan-born Sanjivan Ruprah, who is alleged to be a part of a major arms smuggling operation to Africa, has brought into the open the extent of the multi-million dollar illegal business. The whereabouts of Bout remain unknown. Some media reports say he is in Moscow, while others say he is in the Congo or the United Arab Emirates. An international ...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://treas.gov/press/releases/tg49.htm March 4, 2009 tg-49 Treasury Designates Five Individuals for Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Washington, DC -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated five individuals pursuant to Executive Order 13413, which targets, among others, political or military leaders of foreign armed groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The five individuals are political and military leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR is an armed group operating in the DRC...

Saddam's Shadow Africa Energy & Mining June 18, 1997 Copyright 1997 Indigo Publications Africa Energy & Mining June 18, 1997 SECTION: MINING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; N. 207 LENGTH: 787 words HEADLINE: Saddam's Shadow BODY: It's not only diamonds and base metals that interest big mining companies and the latter are not alone in being interested in Katanga. In the delegation that the United States sent to Kinshasa on June 2 under its ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, the state department's African affairs department was represented by Marc Baas, director for Central Africa. (Susan Rice, director for African...

NEW YORK, USA, 24 July 2006 – Childhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been under attack for decades, but elections on 30 July could offer an opportunity to break the cycle of violence that has scarred an entire generation. A Child Alert report written for UNICEF by British war correspondent Martin Bell and released today in London describes the effects of years of conflict on children in DRC – arguably the world's deadliest current humanitarian crisis.

Sitting on a bed in a refugee camp in Katanga, a cursed province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), Mukeya Ulumba, 28, recounts the epic losses she has suffered in recent months. Several of her relatives and neighbors were killed when antigovernment rebels stormed their village last November, moving from house to house in a murder spree that lasted for hours. Ulumba and her husband managed to flee with their four children, leaving behind their life's possessions, a ravaged community of torched houses and the bloodied corpses of family members and friends. Now Ulumba is struggling to save...

Al-Qaida 'bought uranium' in Congo Friday 14 November 2003, 19:18 Makka Time, 16:18 GMT Bin Ladin's network alleged to have 'dirty bomb' capability Related: Al-Qaida threatens more attacks Saudi regime v al-Qaida: Only one survives Tools: Email Article Print Article Send Your Feedback An al-Qaida representative bought enriched uranium capable of being used in a so-called dirty bomb from the Congolese opposition in 2000, according to a French newspaper report. In sworn testimony an unnamed former soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has told investigators looking into the murders of two Congolese opposition figures in France in December...

If the preachers who spread their message on the banks of the Congo are to be believed, the face of evil is found in the despairing gaze of an abandoned child. With their pinched faces and thin limbs, the ragged street children found throughout Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo's fetid capital, are the bearers of wickedness and sin. Most have been cast out of their homes for being "witches" and, supposedly, bringing every kind of misfortune on their families. A visceral fear of "possessed" children is sweeping Congo's cities, causing tens of thousands of boys and girls to be...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Women and children, some as young as 8, are fighting with militia forces that have attacked villages in eastern Congo and killed dozens while forcing more than 70,000 people to flee their homes, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday. Kemal Saiki, the U.N. spokesman, described classic guerrilla warfare tactics. "During the day these women could be at home grinding manioc, and two hours later have a machete or AK-47 blowing you away," said Saiki. Peacekeepers killed as many as 60 fighters last week after being fired upon near the village of Loga, some 20 miles north of...

Lusaka - Zambia, which was only last year threatened with starvation, is due to export more than 50 000 tons of maize. Chance Kabaghe, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, yesterday said Zambia decided to export the maize to Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo because it has harvested more than it can consume. "Zambia needs 60,000 tons of maize a month," Kabaghe said. "We produced 1.2-million tons of maize during the last season, so we decided to export some to our neighbours who are in dire need of it," Kabaghe added. Kabaghe admitted that Zambia had no...

SENIOR Zanu PF politicians and members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have with the help of Canadian lobbyists Dickens & Madson turned Zimbabwe into a hub for trade in "blood" diamonds illegally brought into the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it emerged this week. The Zimbabwe Independent has been told how gemstones from the DRC have been laundered to line the pockets of Zanu PF big-wigs. American international diamond buyer, John Marsischky, managing director of gemstones company Flashes of Color, revealed in an interview this week that Dickens & Madson, the company which last week claimed it ...

U.N. officials are expressing fear that the fighting between rival ethnic militias in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (D-R-C) could turn into "a Rwanda-like" genocide. In 1994, extremist ethnic Hutus in Rwanda massacred close to 800-hundred thousand ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus during a three-month period. Carolyn McAskie, U.N. Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator said the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation and ethnic tension in the region has conjured up "shades of Rwanda 1994." The fighting between the ethnic Hema and Ledu militias has killed hundreds of people in past few weeks. Ms. McAskie said the humanitarian situation in Bunia, the region's...

Fighting Rages in Congo Around U.N. Camp By EDDY ISANGO KINSHASA, Congo - Rival tribesmen battled with guns and machetes Wednesday in east Congo outside U.N. offices jammed with more than 10,000 terrorized civilians. The United Nations (news - web sites) scrambled to assemble an international force to end the bloodshed. The fighting in Bunia killed at least 10 people Wednesday — including women and children. Most victims were hit by mortar fire as they crowded around the U.N. compound in Bunia. As the violence raged, Britain confirmed it was considering a U.N. request to send troops, while France...

At least 60 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a massacre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the weekend, Ugandan army spokesperson Major Shaban Bantariza said on Monday. "We know of 60 people and they may be more who were killed in the ambush," Bantariza said, saying that those killed were shot in a single attack on Saturday. "They were massacred by suspected Lendu militias who ambushed them as they walked towards our border near the River Semliki, in the last areas of eastern Ituri region before you enter Uganda," he added. Ituri has long been...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Congo President Joseph Kabila has ratified a transitional constitution that is part of a power-sharing agreement with rebels intended to end four-and-a-half years of ruinous civil war, a presidential spokesman said on Saturday. Kabila shunned the signing ceremony Wednesday of the overall agreement, known as The Final Act, sending a representative instead to Sun City, South Africa, where the talks were held. But late Friday, Kabila gave his required presidential assent to the constitution, committing himself to a transitional government expected to bring insurgent leaders from their far-flung strongholds to Congo's capital, Kinshasa, Kabila spokesman Mulegwa...

Gangs of school children looted offices of the United Nations MONUC mission in two towns in the northern Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo -DRC, a UN spokesman said. "Our offices in Kanyabayonga were put into a sack, completely looted, and they also looted our offices in Lubero, breaking MONUC vehicles," MONUC spokesman Hamadoun Toure told AFP Wednesday from the Congolese capital Kinshasa. He said that the two incidents had been perpetrated by "children, schoolchildren", who numbered some 200 in Kanyabayonga, but added that MONUC was aware that they had been sent by other parties. Toure said that...

Soldiers of the MLC force prisoners with the cannibalism (bishop) Sunday December 22, 2002 - 16h22 GMT KINSHASA, 22 déc (AFP) - the bishop of Butembo (north-eastern of the democratic Republic of Congo), Monseigneur Melchisedek affirmed Sunday with the AFP that rebels of the Movement of Release of Congo (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba "force their prisoners with the cannibalism". "In their progression towards Beni and Butembo (two localities of Ituri, the North-East) the men of Jean-Pierre Bemba deliver themselves at worst the atrocities. They force their prisoners to eat bodies of killed men, in particular of Pygmés. It is...

UN steps up Zim probe Dumisani Muleya THE United Nations panel of experts investigating the plunder of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mineral resources is deepening its probe on Zimbabwe. Diplomatic sources said the UN team - which last year blamed Rwanda and Uganda for pillage in the DRC - is now digging deeper into the scramble for DRC mineral wealth. The initial five-member group led by former Ivorian Energy minister Safiatou Ba-N'Daw admitted failure with its Zimbabwe probe in April 2001. However, a technical advisor to the current UN panel, which has more experienced experts, was in the country...

Another nuclear fuel rod is missing from the troubled research reactor in Democratic Republic of Congo and international authorities said they cannot exclude the possibility it is in the hands of terrorists. The Voice of America has learned a second fuel rod manufactured for the nuclear research reactor at the University of Kinshasa is unaccounted for. It was previously reported that one rod made for the controversial facility disappeared and was recovered from criminals in Italy by police in 1998, in an undercover operation. But nuclear industry sources have said at the time of that incident, inspectors for the International...