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Inside A Congolese Displaced Persons Camp: Children Cling To Our Arms, Begging For Human Touch (PHOTOS)

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Unhcr, Drc, Women, Rape, Children, Disease, Kivu, Goma, War, Refugees, Mugunga II, Slideshow, Congo Photos, Human Rights Congo, Congo, Human Rights, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Australian journalist Helen Thomas was the first to ask the question. "Do you find it hard to believe that we are able to function here and do our wor...

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60 Percent Of Congo Logging Contracts Canceled By Government

TreeHugger.com | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Drc, Logging, Congo Logging Contracts, Deforestation, Congo, Green News

In an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled so...

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Gorilla Warfare: Primates Draw Attention To Congo Conflict

Sydney Morning Herald | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Drc, Virunga Park, DRC Rebels, Africa, Gorillas, War in Africa, Animals, Congo, Green News

Unlike 250,000 of their human neighbours who have had to flee the latest fighting, the gorillas appear untouched so far. But they haven't escaped alto...

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Congo's Gorilla Rangers Allowed To Return To Virunga National Park (Video)

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC Violence, War, Green News, Congo Violence, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Gorillas, Congo, Drc, Green News

I don't know if you saw the post from a couple weeks ago about when rangers at Congo's Virunga National Park, home to about 200 endangered mountain g...

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Violence In Congo Reaches Gorillas Deep In Forest

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Drc, Congo Violence, Gorillas, DRC Violence, War, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Green News

The escalating violence in Congo had chased wildlife rangers deep into the wilderness weeks ago, and had long threatened to encroach upon the gorillas...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo: "We're on the Run Again"

Bukeni Waruzi | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drc, Congolese Militia, United Nations, Goma, South Kivu, Internally Displaced Persons, Human Rights Abuses, General Laurent Nkunda, Central Africa, Naitonal Congress for the Defense of People, North Kivu, Alliance of Democratic Forces for the LIberation of Congo-Zaire, Congo Kabila, Icc, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC Violence, Genocide, Laurent Kabila, African Union, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Refugees, Rape in Wartime, Uvira, Fizi, Afdl, Zaire, Cndp, Pareco, Politics News
Bukeni Waruzi

The people in eastern Congo are tired; we have been running for more than a decade now. We need to sit down, live in peace and raise our children.

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Congo: "The World Cannot Look Away"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Drc, War, Monuc, United States Elections, Ifj, Journalism, Congo, Nkunda, Goma, Freedom of Press, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released a statement today warning, "journalists in Democratic Republic of Congo are facing extreme danger."

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Bwindi Gorillas Increasingly Threatened By Human Conflict

VBS.tv | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Drc, Endangered Animals, Uganda, Africa, Gorillas, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Animals, Rwanda, Green News

VBS.tv just put up another excellent travel video series focusing on the gorilla population in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where the borders of Ug...

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Congo Violence Sends Wildlife Rangers Fleeing Into Dense Forest

BBC NEWS | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Drc, Virunga Wildlife Rangers, DRC Violence, DRC Park Rangers, DRC Wildlife Rangers, Congo Violence, Congo, Virunga National Park, Green News

Fears are growing for the welfare of 39 wildlife rangers who were reportedly forced to flee into dense forest after their headquarters in eastern DR C...

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WITNESS

Rebecca Lichtenfeld | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Witness, Charity Organizations, Charity, Drc, Africa, Congo, Health Care, Politics News
Rebecca Lichtenfeld

Some believe that HIV/AIDS statistics are much higher and possibly at pandemic levels in eastern DRC, due to the ongoing conflict between the army and the rebels.

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Candidates Silent On Resource War In Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Rwanda, Drc, Humanitarian Intervention, Resource War, Congo, Barack Obama, Darfur, Human Rights, Sudan, Genocide, Africa, Humanitarian Crisis, Humanitarian Aid, Democratic Republic of Congo, John McCain, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has addressed this great humanitarian breakdown in Congo, except in the context of political squabbling.

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Witness to Rape in Congo: "What is the Future When the Heart of the Community is Broken?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Plundering, Rape, Post Traumatic Stress, Genocide, War, Eve Ensler, Strategic Interests, Congo, Rwanda, Drc, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

Image: Kivu 2007 © G. Nienaber On August 1, the BBC reported very troubling news that Congolese government forces and rebel troops in Eastern Demo...

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