Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, today’s question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions] We will pause for a moment to allow everyone to signal. David Kestenbaum from Morgan Joseph is on the phone with the question. David Kestenbaum - Morgan Joseph Okay, thanks....
GOMA, Congo -- A rebel offensive to expel some of the perpetrators of Rwanda's 1994 genocide forced more than 3,000 civilians to flee eastern Congo to neighboring Uganda in a single day, the insurgents and U.N. officials said early Thursday. In New York, the U.N.'s top Congo...
Crédit Agricole S.A. and Attijariwafa Bank announceagreement concerning changes to their respective investments in Morocco andAfrica Crédit Agricole S.A. and Attijariwafa Bank today announce that they havesigned an agreement concerning: The acquisition by Attijariwafa Bank of Crédit Agricole S.A.'s stake in itsretail banking network in Africa - Crédit du Congo...
KIBATI, Congo -- Government soldiers went on an overnight looting and shooting spree in a sprawling Congolese refugee camp, stealing from hungry and traumatized people who have fled fighting with rebels in the country's east, witnesses said Monday. They said one woman was killed by a stray...
* Rebel leader Nkunda has presidency in his sights and vows to make his country 'big' again * Tutsi general denies that his troops are murdering civilians and forcing child soldiers into their ranks SITTING IN the shade of a tree in a Rutshuru schoolyard, Laurent...
"A healthy girl is a fat-bottomed creature" - Germaine Greer. "I think that, for better or worse, people with some profile in the arts have some currency to spend as celebrities. And for a time, I didn't spend that in any particularly productive way. And I got to...
Ex-cricket star scores African clinic success The former England Test cricketer Phil Edmonds is fond of Africa; he was, after all, born in Lusaka in Zambia. He is also keen on the continent as a place to do business after establishing a host of mining and oil...
ON Friday, a journalist working for a UN-backed radio station in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was gunned down. Didace Namujimbo was killed by a shot to the head, the second reporter for Radio Okapi to be murdered in the city of Bukavu in the past 18 months. Radio Okapi,...
Bumper-sticker support is not enough, writes Andrew Mitchell Last Sunday, in the Kibati camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo DCR, I met a girl of 17 - the same age as one of my daughters. Her parents are dead, killed in the previous war in...
GOMA, Congo -- Shootings, looting and rape plague the already desperate lives of refugees in eastern Congo, where people caught between soldiers and rebels live in constant fear, U.N. officials said Friday. Gunmen shot and killed a 20-year-old woman at a refugee camp in Kibati and forced...
MORE than half of the people displaced by the latest fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have become separated from family members, aid agencies claimed today. The survey showed 63% of displaced people in the camps around Goma in eastern Congo had lost contact with at least one close...
CONGO: Thousands of new UN peacekeeping troops should arrive in Congo within weeks. A UN spokesman said the move to send 3,100 troops "shows the solidarity of the family of nations with the Congolese people"...
World in brief PARIS United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo should have more robust rules of engagement to be able to protect civilians "in a proactive fashion", the French government has demanded. Eric Chevallier, the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said that the...
It was a pretty undistinguished year for British fiction, but fortunately a good one for fiction elsewhere. Our Story Begins (Bloomsbury, £18.99), by Tobias Wolff, is a collection from one of America's greatest literary talents of the last 30 years. Wolff is a writer of supreme grace and penetrating insight,...
UN sends in 3,000 more troops as UK charities launch disaster appeals The last refuge for the displaced is a ramshackle village church A MAN cradles his son as he stares intensely at the camera; the baby, secure in the strong arms of his father, playfully...
20,000 Size of UN force in Congo after an additional 3,000 were posted there 99% Share of oceans not protected by governments, despite pledges to protect 10% by 2012...
BRITAIN's aid agencies are appealing for funds to ease the desperate plight of people affected by the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. "The start of the rainy season has meant people living in already...
RWINDI, Congo -- Rebels in Congo pulled hundreds of fighters back from several front-line positions as promised on Wednesday in what the U.N. said was a welcome step toward brokering peace in the volatile nation. Elsewhere, however, U.N. forces on patrol exchanged fire with pro- government Mai...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD BAE Systems has announced the receipt of an order for three BAE 146-200 regional jetliners from Air Congo Limited. Air Congo currently operates five other BAE 146-200 aircraft. According to BAE Systems the number of BAE 146/Avro RJ...
WASHINGTON - When both sides have a point in a war, you know you are in deep trouble - in deciding whom to help, whom to blame or whom to punish. That's the case in Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel force led by Laurent Nkunda is fighting a combination of...
Articles 2008-11-19
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