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Tuesday, 02-07-12, 15:05Future Bleak for Aids Patients[RNW Africa] Kinshasa - According to an alarming report published by nongovernmental organisation Doctors Without Borders (DWB), 85% of AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) do not have access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. , read more...

Tuesday, 02-07-12, 10:5161 Children Reunited[ICRC] Kinshasa/Juba/Geneva - Sixty-one children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan have rejoined their families with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) after being separated from them for several years. , read more...

Monday, 02-06-12, 8:14U.S. Policy Toward Post-Election DRC[State Department] Good afternoon, Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Payne, honorable Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the United States' policy toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the DRC, in light of what Secretary Clinton has described as "seriously flawed" presidential and parliamentary elections held last November 28. , read more...

Monday, 02-06-12, 8:06What Next After Corruption of Truth and Justice?[Fahamu] As in other parts of the world, there are signs of revolt of ordinary people against many decades of oppression and dispossession. The dictators leave, but the system which bore them remains. , read more...

Sunday, 02-05-12, 8:55Tension Grips Eastern City Amid Revolt Rumours[Nation] Kinshasa - Tension remains high in the Democratic Republic of Congo's city of Goma after rumours of an attempted revolt went public. , read more...

Friday, 02-03-12, 19:06New Atrocities Reported Against Displaced Civilians[UN News] The United Nations refugee agency said today it is alarmed by recent reports that displaced people have been tortured and killed in their camps by armed elements in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). , read more...

Friday, 02-03-12, 15:38Armed Groups Continue Attacks on IDP Camps[UNHCR] UNHCR is alarmed by recent reports that internally displaced people have been tortured and killed by armed elements in the IDP camps of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. , read more...

Friday, 02-03-12, 8:29UN Urges Peaceful Resolution to Poll Disputes[UN News] With the provisional results of national legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) having now been announced, the United Nations today encouraged all actors to use legal channels for resolving any disputes and refrain from the use of force or violence. , read more...

Friday, 02-03-12, 3:11Elections Concern U.S. Government[U.S. Congress] Washington, DC - Violence, potential humanitarian crisis and the post-2011 election aftermath in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were the topics at a congressional hearing Thursday held before the House panel that oversees international human rights and African issues that is chaired by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04). , read more...

Thursday, 02-02-12, 6:02The Congo, the Fixer and a Client Called Vodacom[iMaverick] When Vodacom's business partnership in the Congo fell apart at the seams, and the company's directors in the DRC were about to land in jail, the mobile giant's chairman phoned Moto Mabanga, a fixer with firm ANC connections. Mabanga fixed the problem all right, but he and Vodacom had a difference of opinion on a little matter of a multi-million dollar success fee. No problem for Mabanga; he's managed to get a Kinshasa commercial court to make a $21-million award against Vodacom. Now if only Vodacom wou , read more...

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