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Congo stories: 29 news summaries

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 A Few Other Nobel 
 Candidates 

Tireless campaigners for human rights, long-suffering Chinese dissidents among those passed over

Oct 9, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama himself said he was not sure he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Weekly Standard seems to agree. Mary Katherine Ham invites you to consider some of the luminaries who were passed over:
  • Sima Samar: A Afghan women’s rights activist who kept
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Afghanistan • China • Barack Obama • FARC • Nobel Peace Prize • Ingrid Betancourt • Hu Jia • Congo • Wei Jingsheng • Handicap International • Cluster Munition Coalition • Denis Mukwege • Sima Samar

 Mountain Gorillas 
 Take Fight to 
 Survive 
 Online 

Ugandan animals' advocates embrace social networking

Sep 28, 09 6:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not only can your online buddies be any age and in any location, they don't even have to be your species. Tech-savvy advocates of the endangered mountain gorilla are about to launch an umbrella site, friendagorilla.org, that will feature videos, social networking, and blogs—by park rangers, not gorillas.... More »

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endangered species • Africa • Facebook • gorilla • Rwanda • Uganda • mountain gorillas • Twitter • Congo • Jason Biggs

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton ended her African tour today on a note of optimism colored by disdain, the New York Times reports. The secretary of state visited seven nations over 11 days and made her final remarks on the Cape Verde islands off the coast. “I leave Africa after this... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Africa • Zimbabwe • secretary of State • United States • South Africa • Liberia • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Congo • state visit

OPINION

 It's Time to Start 
 Taking Hillary Seriously 

She's still trivialized as she fights to empower women

Aug 13, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s trip to Congo was meant to help fulfill a promise to focus on women’s issues, but it seems to have turned on one woman's issues. Though “there could have been no more dramatic setting,” writes Judith Warner in the New York Times, “back... More »

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Hillary Clinton • women • women's rights • State Department • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • beer • Congo • Dana Milbank • women's issues

(AP) - Hillary Clinton traveled to war-ravaged eastern Congo today, where the nation's top diplomat demanded an end to the sexual violence that has claimed at least 200,000 victims. Clinton came to Goma aboard a UN plane over the objections of some top aides who were concerned about security and logistics... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Africa • rape • civil war • Democratic Republic of Congo • sexual violence • Goma • Congo • women's issues

(Newser) - A visibly annoyed Hillary Clinton bristled today when—as she heard it—a Congolese university student asked what her husband thought about an international financial matter, the AP reports. "My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she snapped. "If you want my opinion, I will... More »

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Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • Congo • women's issues

(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of women have been sexually assaulted in the ongoing war in eastern Congo, but suddenly, the region is seeing a sharp increase in rapes of men. More than 10% of the victims of sexual violence in the region are male, and victims are often ostracized by their... More »

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Africa • rape • civil war • Congolese • sexual violence • sexual assault • Congo

 Congo Battles 
 Gorilla Pet Trade 

World's only sanctuary for orphaned gorillas seeks to boost tourist numbers

May 28, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservationists trying to save the Republic of Congo's gorillas are fighting to protect the primates from poachers and the pet trade, the Daily Telegraph reports. One foundation, which warns that the gorilla population will be half what it is now by 2020 at the current rate of extermination, has founded... More »

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endangered species • gorilla • Western Lowland Gorilla • primates • Congo • Republic of Congo

The Church Wants U
2 Give Up Txting 4 Lent

Benedict thinks technology is ruining young lives

Mar 3, 09 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re still deciding what to give up for Lent, the Catholic Church has a suggestion: How about Facebook? A handful of Italian dioceses have begun a "stop texting" campaign, the Times reports, urging young people to give up text messaging, Facebook, video games, and other such... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • text message • Congo • Roman Catholic Church

US Funded Failed Attack
on Ugandan Rebels

LRA escaped 'poorly planned' attack, massacred civilians

Feb 7, 09 11:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The US military helped fund and plan a disastrous attack on a Ugandan rebel group that resulted in reprisals against civilians, the New York Times reports. Uganda had hoped to rout the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army from the Congolese national park it was hiding in, but it failed... More »

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US military • Uganda • US military aid • rebels • Congo • Lord's Resistance Army

Amid Congo's Violence,
a Gorilla 'Baby Boom'

Population of tame gorillas up 12.5%

Jan 27, 09 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has seen unspeakable violence, but one population has managed to thrive: the endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park. The population of gorillas considered tame grew to 81 from 72 over the past year, Bloomberg reports. The gorilla population has boomed even as rangers entrusted... More »

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endangered species • Africa • Democratic Republic of Congo • gorilla • Congolese • mountain gorillas • Virunga Park • Congo

Int'l Criminal Court Opens With Congo Trial

In first case, warlord pleads not guilty to using child soldiers

Jan 26, 09 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The International Criminal Court in The Hague began its first trial today, as a Congolese militia leader pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers. The court's prosecutor accused Thomas Lubanga of using hundreds of boys as young as nine "to kill, pillage, and rape" in the Democratic... More »

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war crimes • The Hague • child soldier • Democratic Republic of Congo • Congo • International Criminal Court • war crimes tribunal • Thomas Lubanga

 Rwanda Nabs 
 Congo Rebel Leader 

Nkunda arrested by country once accused of supporting him

Jan 23, 09 5:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Fearsome rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, the head of a movement that has destabilized the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested over the border in Rwanda. Hundreds of Rwandan troops converged on a mountain village last night inside Congo where the general was stationed, but he crossed the border into... More »

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Democratic Republic of Congo • Rwanda • Tutsi • rebel fighters • Congo • Laurent Nkunda

 Congo Militia 
 Kills Gorilla 
 Protector 

Rangers fought off rebels for hours

Jan 12, 09 4:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Rebels have killed a ranger stationed in a Congo national park to protect endangered gorillas from the surrounding civil unrest, CNN reports. Safari Kakule was one of seven men attacked. Another ranger was injured and a rebel captured in fighting that lasted for hours. It's unclear why the militia attacked... More »

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death • militia • Democratic Republic of Congo • gorilla • mountain gorillas • Congo • Eastern Lowland gorillas

Angola Closes Border With Congo to Block Ebola

Outbreak has allegedly killed 13, infected 40

Jan 5, 09 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused Angolan authorities to close part of their border with the country, Reuters reports. Angolans will be forbidden to travel to the DRC from the northeastern province of Norde Lunde. The Ebola outbreak is suspected of infecting 40 and... More »

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Africa • disease • war • Democratic Republic of Congo • Ebola • Angola • Congo

OPINION

The World's Worst Humanitarian Crises

Civil war and displacement fuel tragedies across the globe: aid group

Dec 23, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released its annual list of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Here's a sample:
  • Somalia: Increased friction between insurgents and the government unleashed some of the worst violence in a decade. One in five children there dies before turning 5.
  • Congo: Hundreds of
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Zimbabwe • Pakistan • HIV • list • humanitarian crisis • Doctors Without Borders • HIV/AIDS • Congo • Best of 2008

GLOSSIES

 Biggest 
 Stories 
 You Didn't 
 Hear in '08 

Catching up on the stuff blotted out by the election and financial crisis

Dec 17, 08 7:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Election coverage and reports on the financial crisis ate up much of the media's attention in '08—while some major news stories went under-reported. Time runs down the biggest:
  1. A Pentagon gaffe accidentally sent nuclear warhead fuses to Taiwan in 2006; the mix-up was noted this year—by the
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Pentagon • FDA • mental health • Sri Lanka • list • civil war • nuclear arsenal • Congo • genetically modified meat • Best of 2008

 Anarchy Rules 
 Desperate Congo 

In country's east, rebels and army abandon citizens

Nov 19, 08 5:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Bewildered residents in eastern Congo talk of the "front line" separating rebel territory from areas controlled by the army. But no such line exists—only a jumble of unstable, chaotic territories with no checkpoints or fortifications, reports the New York Times. While a ceasefire between the two sides seems... More »

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refugee camp • Democratic Republic of Congo • refugee • Congo • Laurent Nkunda

 Congo Orphan 
 Faces Lawless World 

War-torn nation struggles to cope with parentless children

Nov 16, 08 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - An infant discovered in a corpse-ridden house may portend a new problem in Congo's humanitarian crisis, the AP reports. Eliya, found crying with a bullet wound, is one of 250,000 people displaced since fighting reignited in August. “Caring for orphans, that’s something new for us,” said... More »

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militia • orphan • Congo

OPINION

 Africa May Force 
 Obama's Military Hand 

Despite war weariness, Americans may have to prepare for more troops oversees

Nov 16, 08 5:02 AM CST
(Newser) - As Barack Obama prepares to become America’s new president, the dire situation in Africa may upend his anticipated plans to extract the US from overseas military commitments, the Economist writes. While Americans may be wary of bigger burdens oversees, “history does not take a holiday just because America... More »

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Barack Obama • United Nations • Bill Clinton • Crisis in Darfur • peacekeeping force • military aid • Congo • President Obama

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