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Congo, Democratic Republic of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Congo lies astride the equator, and virtually all of the country is part of the vast Congo River drainage basin. It borders on Angola in the southwest and west, on Cabinda and the Republic of the Congo in the west, on the Central African Republic and Sudan in the north, on Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania in the east, and on Zambia in the southeast. The Congo’s mineral wealth is the mainstay of the economy, but the development of the mining industry has occurred at the expense of commercial agriculture. www.bartleby.com /65/co/Congo-Kin.html   (4090 words)

MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Congo, Democratic Republic of the The population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1984 census, preliminary) was 29,671,407. Congo Swahili has few mother-tongue speakers (found in some cities) but is used as a lingua franca by about 9.1 million people in the Katanga, North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema provinces, and the south-eastern part of the Orientale Province. The population is concentrated in the Katanga mining area and along the lower Congo. uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761561261___7/Congo_Democratic_Republic_of_the.html   (769 words)

Bas-Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bas-Congo is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Categories: Subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bas-Congo   (122 words)

Congo-UN News Media Reports Congo's minister for human rights, Leonard She Okitundu, opened a daylong debate on restoring peace to Congo by demanding that Rwandan and Ugandan troops backing rebels leave the territory and urging international troops to police Congo's borders. MARTIN ANDJABA (Namibia) said the violation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's sovereignty and territorial integrity by Uganda and Rwanda was an act of interference in that country's internal affairs. Confronted with the scale of the atrocities in Congo and the war's threat to the continent as a whole, Britain has circulated a discussion paper that calls for an international force of about 10,000-12,000 people to be sent to monitor a cease-fire once it is secured. www.un.int /drcongo/UNmedia2.htm   (7353 words)

CASUALTIES OF WAR While this move did not constitute a violation of international law, as Congo is in a state of war, the transfer of powers and other measures taken by the government since the beginning of the war made it clear that any credible transition to democracy was at least temporarily stalled. Tutsi in Kinshasa and elsewhere in Congo were attacked, killed, or forced to flee due to persecution by the Mobutu government and militia in 1996 and 1997. Congo is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which in Article 14 (5) guarantees review of sentences by a higher tribunal. www.hrw.org /reports/1999/congo/Congoweb-02.htm   (8906 words)

CONGO - Online Information article about CONGO branch of the Congo, which, as it flows in a broad level valley at a lower level than the eastern branch, is held by some to be the true head-stream. The easterly head-streams are, however, regarded generally as marking the true course of the Congo. plain within the Congo bend is drained by streams flowing in the same direction as the middle Congo—east to west. encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONGO.html   (5683 words)

WWW-VL History Index Chronologies of the Provinces of Belgian Congo and Congo (Kinshasa) Cascon Case CON: Congo (Katanga) 1960-63 Outline of the revolt of Moise Tschombe in Katanga, 30 June 1960, and its aftermath. The UN in the Congo, by Keith Kyle. vlib.iue.it /history/africa/congo.html   (1015 words)

BBC NEWS Africa DR Congo pursues 'coup leader' President Joseph Kabila's spokesman said Major Eric Lenge was hiding in the forest of Bas Congo, near the capital. Congo's opposition has said the coup was fabricated by President Kabila. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is still hunting the leader of a failed coup, who fled from the capital, Kinshasa. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3802169.stm   (381 words)

monuc.org: DRC: Voter registration extended in Oriental, Bas-Congo provinces ::: 16/08/2005 GOMA, 15 August (IRIN) - Voter registration was extended for an additional week on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's provinces of Orientale and Bas-Congo due to transport and security difficulties, the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Appollinaire Malu Malu, said on Sunday. Congo police fire in the air at referendum protest World court to rule in DR Congo versus Uganda case Monday www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=7974   (293 words)

IRC IRC Works to Slow HIV Infection in Congo In a country where the majority of goods are imported from its former colonizers, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is lucky to have Bas-Congo Province, a peaceful, thriving, breadbasket of trade, and Kinshasa's biggest provider of produce. HIV/AIDS is rapidly becoming one of the leading causes of death in Congo, with an estimated HIV infection rate of 10 percent, according to the health ministry. Throughout the kleptocratic dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor Laurent Desire Kabila, the Congo (formerly Zaire), was eaten away, its riches disappearing into the Swiss bank accounts of its leaders. www.theirc.org /index.cfm/wwwID/1807   (807 words)

Beekeeping in Bas Congo - A contribution to sustainable agriculture Crossopteryx febrifuga is a major constituent of the savannah bush in many areas of Bas Congo and also grows from Senegal to Sudan and into Zimbabwe. Honey hunting has been a traditional activity in Bas Congo, as in much of Africa, but beekeeping has only been practiced in the area since the early 1980's. he Bas Congo Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lies between the coast and Kinshasa. www.beekeeping.com /articles/us/congo.htm   (1954 words)

Pisces The samples from the limits of the species' range (Dagana, Bas Kouilou) are those that have the least polymorphism (both monomorphs) and the fewest alleles in common with C. maurus. Glowing coals from the Congo Teleogramma brichardi Poll, 1959.: Cichlidae (Ekeren) 9(8) 1983: 211-213, Illustr. The structure of the utricle and the semicircular canals in the Congo catfish Synodontis nigriventris (Teleostei, Siluroida): adaptations of a sensory system to swimming upside-down: Zoologischer Anzeiger 234(4), September 1996: 271-280, Illustr. diglib1.amnh.org /resources/bibliography/bibliographies/pisces.htm   (6563 words)

Edible Caterpillars in Bas Congo A study of animal protein consumption in Cataractes district of Bas Congo, where the project operates, found that 12% of animal protein consumed was from insects (Gomez et al 1961). Most edible caterpillars in Bas Congo live on forest trees and thus enhance the value of the traditional forest fallow. This species, though becoming difficult to find in Bas Congo, is widely distributed in the region. www.taa.org.uk /TAAScotland/EdibleCaterpillars2.htm   (2241 words)

democratic republic of the congo map and information page Commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium, Henry Stanley was the first European to explore the Congo Basin area. Landforms The vast Congo River basin occupies and central and northwestern parts of the country, while further south, savanna grasslands extend to the border with Angola. Dissected by the Equator, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly called Zaire, is the third largest country on the African continent. www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/africa/cd.htm   (611 words)

Matadi on Encyclopedia.com 138,798), Bas-Congo province, W Congo (Kinshasa), on the Congo River. Because of the Congo's economic and political troubles in the late 1980s and 1990s, trade through the port diminished and the condition of the facilities deteriorated. Situated c.80 mi (130 km) from the mouth of the Congo, at the farthest point navigable by oceangoing vessels, the city is linked by rail with Kinshasa. www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Matadi.asp   (403 words)

BBC NEWS Africa Deadly flu virus ravages DR Congo The head of the epidemiology department at the Democratic Republic of Congo's ministry of health says that more than a million people in Kinshasa, a city of six million, are suffering from the flu. The vast majority were infants and old people living in isolated and impoverished jungle communities in the northern Equatuer Province, under the control of the rebel Movement for the Liberation of Congo. The flu, which was first reported in the Central African Republic in September, has now been registered in four Congolese provinces, where authorities say it has killed at least 2,000 people. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2734113.stm   (335 words)

Winne.com - Report on Congo DRC, Paving the reconstruction This is the electronic edition of the special Democratic Republic of Congo report on published in Forbes Global Magazine. Moambé (or Mwambé) is a traditional African stew from the Congo river area. Winne.com - Report on Congo DRC, Paving the reconstruction www.winne.com /congo/bf11.html   (1312 words)

PanAfrLoc PanAfrLoc / Kongo Kituba (DRC) is spoken in Bas-Congo and southern Bandundu provinces Kongo is used as a lingua franca in DR Congo and in metropolitan Brazzaville. Literacy rate of Kituba speakers in Congo (according to Ethnologue): www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Kongo   (564 words)

Democratic Republic of the Congo Newspapers Congo Kinshasa Newspapers News on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda. Recent Congo News and older articles on the Congo from Gemini News Service, Amnesty International, African Rights (London), and other organizations. Extensive information on the Great Lakes Crisis (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa)), an extensive collection of newspaper articles, newswire stories, UN reports, etc. Maintained by the UN Dept. of Humanitarian Affairs. www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/congok/congoknews.html   (295 words)

Congo the third largest country in Africa, it is bordered with Central African Republic to the north, Sudan to the northeast, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania to the east, Zambia to the south and southeast, Angola to the southwest, and Angola and the Congo Republic to the west. The 2,733 mile long Congo River lies mostly within the territory of the country. The enormous semicircular bend in the river delineates a central depression known as the cuvette, with an average altitude of 1,300 ft. Around this densely forested section, which covers nearly half the area of the country, a succession of plateaus rise gradually to height of over 5,000 ft in the northeast and southeast. www.goodnewsmedia.com /congo   (342 words)

El Rincon Bantu Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday shot dead 14 demonstrators demanding autonomy for Bas-Congo Province, in southwestern DRC, media sources and a civil society group reported. The centre of the kingdom was located in Bas-Congo Province and in neighbouring Bandundu Province of modern-day DRC. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a state with many different ethnic groups within its borders. www.inquiceweb.com /IWboard/messages/4/1598.html   (798 words)

WHKMLA Documents : Roland-Duchesne, Belgian Congo, Complete Course of Geography, 1914, ch. 3.3 The central governmant of the Belgian Congo has it's seat in Breuusels, the local government in Boma. WHKMLA Documents : Roland-Duchesne, Belgian Congo, Complete Course of Geography, 1914, ch. from : J. Roland and E. Duchesne, Cours Complet de Geographie : Le Congo Belge, Namur 1914, pp.29-30 www.zum.de /whkmla/documents/rolduch/rolduch3-3.html   (840 words)

Congo Conducting Mass Executions (Press Release, February 2000) Following the outbreak of war against the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy and its foreign backers in August 1998, the Congolese government expanded both the geographic coverage and legal mandate of the court with the addition of new chambers at Katanga, Kasai, and Bas Congo regions, and the establishment of roving courts. The Court of Military Order was established in 1997 by presidential decree law No. 019 shortly after President Laurent Kabila's government seized power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The jurisdiction of the Military Court was further expanded on January 2, 1999 by Decree Law 171, which declared a state of emergency in regions then controlled by the rebels and their foreign backers. www.hrw.org /press/2000/02/drc0210.htm   (669 words)

USAID CP FY2000: DROC The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most important countries in sub-Saharan Africa and key to stability and prosperity in all of central Africa. Its political course and economic prospects will have enormous implications not only for the people of the Congo but also for its nine neighboring countries and the larger region, extending as far as South Africa. The DRC possesses vast natural resources and is the third most populous country in Africa (with an estimated 50 million people). www.usaid.gov /pubs/cp2000/afr/congo.html   (1281 words)

Democratic Republic of Congo -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1 With inflation rates reaching 147 percent as late as 1998, the recent flight of investors and capital from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has left most of the country in economic ruin. Expansive lakes, high mountains and mountain terraces, plateaus and dense grasslands characterize the south-central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). Habitat for Humanity has provided hope for families of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 25 years. www.habitat.org /ame/build/ame/54.aspx   (227 words)

anb408-e06 But the two main cassava-producing areas, Bas-Congo and Bandundu, are the provinces closest to Kinshasa and have always remained under government control. Congo’s capital city and the entire region is heading for immediate collapse. Its scarcity could be explained by Congo’s on-going and never-ending war situation, thus making it extremely difficult for cassava to reach the capital from the rural areas. ospiti.peacelink.it /anb-bia/nr408/e06.html   (743 words)

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Though my involvement with the Congo goes back, on and off, over the past 22 years, other than a brief visit made to Bandundu, I have worked solely in Bas-Congo, and even then only in the districts of Lukaya and Cataractes. Biodiversity, an interesting concept to us, is of absolutely crucial importance in a country like the Congo because rural people are often entirely dependent on the plants and insects for their daily lives. The role of the church in the Congo. www.ctbi.org.uk /index.php?op=modload&name=knowledge&file=kbasepage&LinkID=181   (1631 words)

Early Neoproterozoic magmatism (1000-910 Ma) of the Zadinian and Mayumbian Groups (Bas-Congo): onset of Rodinia rifting at the western edge of the Congo craton — Metafro Infosys Early Neoproterozoic magmatism (1000-910 Ma) of the Zadinian and Mayumbian Groups (Bas-Congo): onset of Rodinia rifting at the western edge of the Congo craton Abstract In Central Africa, the West Congo (or West Congolian) belt extends subparallel to the Atlantic coast between 1° and 12° S along the western edge of the Archaean Congo craton. It corresponds to the initial, transtensional rifting stage along the western edge of the Congo craton before Rodinia breakup. www.metafro.be /Members/jpl/PR2001-Congo.pdf/view   (484 words)

BGCI - Botanic Gardens - Edible caterpillars and their food plants in Bas Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo This article was adapted with permission from Paul Latham from the English edition of his manual 'Edible caterpillars and their food plants in Bas Congo (1999)' which was produced for two rural development projects run by the Salvation Army in Bas Congo, to improve the livelihoods of the local people. Caterpillars are an important traditional source food in Bas Congo and can provide much needed protein to the usual diet. A project was set up to conserve and increase the numbers of edible caterpillars by several villages involved with The Centre de Promotion des Technologies Appropries, a programme run by the Salvation Army at Kasangulu, Bas Congo. www.bgci.org.uk /botanic_gardens/edible_caterpillars_Bas_Congo.html   (1195 words)

Democratic Republic of Congo Provinces At the start of the 20th century, the État Indépendant du Congo (Congo Free State) was the personal domain of King Léopold II of Belgium. Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa) Democratic Republic of Congo is divided into ten provinces and one ville neutre (neutral city). www.statoids.com /ucd.html   (923 words)

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