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  Brazzaville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is located on the Congo River.
The resulting Brazzaville Declaration was intended to redefine the relationship between France and its African colonies after World War II.
In order to distinguish between the two African countries with "Congo" in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaire, the capital of which is Kinshasa).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazzaville   (438 words)

  
 Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1924-34, the Congo-Ocean Railway (CFCO) was built at a considerable human and financial cost, opening the way for growth of the ocean port of Pointe-Noire and towns along its route.
The Brazzaville Conference of 1944 heralded a period of major reform in French colonial policy, including the abolition of forced labor, granting of French citizenship to colonial subjects, decentralization of certain powers, and election of local advisory assemblies.
Its capital, Brazzaville, is located on the Congo River,in the south of the country, immediately across from Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo   (1454 words)

  
 The Australian: Brazzaville defendants acquitted (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Court president Charles Emile Apesse said the court and the jury, with a majority of at least seven votes, had found the 15 defendants were not individually responsible for committing war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity in relation to the events in 1999.
The refugees had returned, in May 1999, to Brazzaville's port from Kinshasa on the other side of the Congo River and were detained on suspicion of backing a militia hostile to the government of President Denis Sassou Nguesso.
But Congo's constitutional court rejected a complaint that nine of the judges were appointed by president Nguesso in violation of the constitution.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,16300884%255E1702,00.html   (358 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Brazzaville - 'world's worst city'
Brazzaville is the worst city in the world to live, according to a new survey.
The BBC's Said Penda in Brazzaville says that about half of the city's houses are still in ruins because of the decade-long civil war.
He says that you never know when there will be electricity and some areas of the city only have water for two hours a day.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2815105.stm   (407 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Brazzaville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
Brazzaville (population 600,000) is the capital of the
French explorer, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, after whom the city was named.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brazzaville   (249 words)

  
 INHEA: Congo (Brazzaville) Higher Education Profile
Part of this network was the Higher Education Center in Brazzaville (Centre d’Enseignement Supérieur de Brazzaville, CESB), comprised of the Law School, the Advanced School of Science, the Advanced School of Humanities, and the Medico-social Department.
Congo inaugurated the University of Brazzaville in 1971.
During the period between 1971 and 1983, the University of Brazzaville entered a period of restructuring; a number of institutions came to light, such as the Advanced School of for the Sciences of Education (Institut Supérieur des Sciences de l’Education, INSSED), which replaced the former ENSAC.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/profiles/Congo_Brazzaville.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Brazzaville. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Motorboats connect Brazzaville with Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, across Pool Malebo.
At a conference in Brazzaville in 1944, African leaders from French West and Equatorial Africa for the first time publicly called for reforms in French colonial rule, thus starting the colonies on the road to independence.
In late 1960 leaders of newly independent French-speaking African nations met in the city; the “Brazzaville group” of states, which adopted a moderate political stance on most African and international issues of the time, took its name from this meeting.
www.bartleby.com /65/br/Brazzavi.html   (279 words)

  
 CD Baby: BRAZZAVILLE: 2002
Brazzaville, the river-port capital of the Republic of the Congo, was
With bossa nova rhythms lapping softly against a fading accordion, a delicate piano melody wafting through a golden haze of saxophone, and Brown's smooth, unhurried tenor supplying an offhand sort of Parisian cool, Brazzaville is the band you might expect to find at the end of the line in The Night of the Iguana.
Brazzaville conducts a dreamy tour of exotic ports of call through a blend of geographic references, both in terms of lyrics and the music, with a home base in the Brazilian tropics.
www.cdbaby.com /brazzaville3   (362 words)

  
 Congo, Republic of
During negotiations in April for the surrender of Ninja militia members in Brazzaville, shots were fired in some southern neighborhoods of Brazzaville, which caused the residents of the area to panic and flee.
There were indigent street children in Brazzaville, and their numbers have grown as a result of civil conflict since 1997.
Former civilian employees of the Government were encouraged to return to their former jobs even though they are from ethnic groups that opposed the Government during the civil war and the disturbances that followed.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18178.htm   (7288 words)

  
 CONGO-DRC: Kinshasa team in Brazzaville to identify former soldiers
BRAZZAVILLE, 31 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - A government team from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) arrived on Saturday in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, to begin the identification and registration of former Congolese soldiers who served under president Mobutu Sese Seko and now want to return home.
Authorities in both cities said they were acting according to international law on repatriation and, consequently, forced the formers soldiers to camp in Brazzaville's riverside port of Beach.
The Brazzaville government wants former soldiers to leave so that trade on the River Congo could resume between the two countries.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/10/mil-051031-irin03.htm   (540 words)

  
 Congo, Republic of the
The largest cities are the capital, Brazzaville, on the Congo River, and Point Noire on the coast.
Tensions in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to insecurity in border areas in the north of the Republic of the Congo along the Ubangui River.
While the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville is still not open for normal operations, one American officer and some staff members are normally available in Brazzaville to provide information and guidance to American citizens.
travel.state.gov /travel/congo.html   (2127 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Ninja clashes in Congo's capital
In March, a peace deal was signed with the Ninjas, whose stronghold is in the Pool region, south of the capital.
Mr Akoula said the dispute was over problems with food distribution, but a spokesman for Pastor Ntoumi told the BBC that government soldiers had attacked the pastor's supporters.
Brazzaville has been called the world's worst city to live in, with half of the city's houses left in ruins from the decade-long civil war.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3330157.stm   (230 words)

  
 Congo (Brazzaville) (01/06)
Congo's sparse population is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the country, leaving the vast areas of tropical jungle in the north virtually uninhabited.
In 2003 and 2004 this practice continued, and the Embassy in Brazzaville is working toward establishing an interim office facility in which to conduct temporary duties.
The U.S. Embassy's operations in Brazzaville were suspended on June 18, 1997, because of the war.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2825.htm   (3930 words)

  
 United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
BRAZZAVILLE, 4 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - The World Bank and the Republic of Congo have signed an agreement for a US $17-million grant to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate 30,000 former combatants in the country.
BRAZZAVILLE, 15 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Although the Republic of Congo is one of Central Africa's wettest countries, the majority of its rural population has no drinkable water due to a lack of infrastructure.
BRAZZAVILLE, 9 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - The parliament of the Republic of Congo (ROC) overturned on Tuesday a death sentence against former Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas, opposition leader and founder of one of the groups that participated in armed conflicts that rocked the country during the 1990s.
www.irinnews.org /frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&SelectCountry=Congo   (563 words)

  
 NPR : 'Welcome to Brazzaville': Well-Traveled Rock 'n' Roll
Brazzaville bassist Joe Zimmerman, left, and David Brown jam al fresco.
Day to Day, November 19, 2004 · Brazzaville is a Los Angeles-based sextet with a worldly outlook, and their sound has been described as "musty noir tropicalia" with influences from Latin America and the Mideast.
Brazzaville has a huge following in London, Moscow and Barcelona, where Brown now calls home.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4177188   (442 words)

  
 Afrol Congo Brazzaville Index Page: Links to Congo Brazzaville
AFP - Congo Brazzaville (French news agency) is probably the most regular provider of news from Congo Brazzaville, mostly with articles on a daily basis.
Congo Brazzaville Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy.
On their Congo Brazzaville Page you'll find country background information and facts (overviews) for the traveler (money and costs, when to go, attractions, activities, getting there, getting around, etc.), if there's not a travel warning.
www.afrol.com /Index/countries/congobrazzavilleindex.htm   (1930 words)

  
 Brazzaville on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Un paneau électoral le 23 juin dans le district de Brazzaville Les électeurs congolais ont été peu nombreux à se rendre au.
Patrouille de soldats congolais dans la région du Pool au sud de Brazzaville Le retour au calme s'est confirmé samedi à Br.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Brazzavi.asp   (925 words)

  
 afrol News - Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
The treaty was signed by most of the Presidents from these Central African countries during the Second Heads of State Forest Summit, held from 4—5 February 2005 in Brazzaville, Congo.
Also signed at the summit was an accord allowing free movement of park staff between Cameroon, the Central African Republic and Congo Brazzaville in the Sangha Tri-National Conservation Area.
The Brazzaville summit was the follow-up to the 1999 Yaoundé summit, hosted by President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
www.afrol.com /articles/15559   (592 words)

  
 Agence France Presse English: 'Brazzaville beach' murder trial opens in Congo@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A view of the Brazzaville tribunal where the "Brazzaville beach" trial opened.
Top military and police officials accused of genocide in the killing of hundreds of Congolese refugees in 1999 at Brazzaville port went are trial.
Only 14 of the 16 accused were present in the packed courtroom in Brazzaville's...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:111309174&refid=holomed_1   (210 words)

  
 Timeline Republic of Congo - Brazzaville
He was able to flee and rally his forces for a counterattack.
Former president Nguesso appeared to have begun an assault on the airport.
2002 Jun 14, In the Republic of Congo rebels launched their first attack on Brazzaville since restarting this West African nation's civil war in late March.
timelines.ws /countries/CONGOREP.HTML   (906 words)

  
 10,000 Flee Fighting in Brazzaville (Ninjas in action)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At least 10,000 people have fled Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, following two days of fighting between government forces and Ninja militias that began on Friday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office in the country reported.
Brazzaville endured two sustained military attacks in the north-eastern outskirts of the town.
The first was against the military based near the international airport at Maya Maya, and the second targeted a police school and a station of the gendarmerie in the neighbourhood of Moukondo.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/703314/posts   (821 words)

  
 Central African officials to meet in Congo on regional environment strategy
But none of the pledged 300 million dollars has been released because the regional plan has not been finalised.
But all the partnership's member states are struggling under heavy debt burdens, or to emerge from war, and have severe difficulty in managing their environmental resources.
According to Djombo, delegates at the meeting in Brazzaville will discuss ways of converting debt into nature conservation projects.
www.terradaily.com /2004/040624153626.ifm4uqd6.html   (594 words)

  
 Congo - Brazzaville on the Internet
In French and English, Has news articles (esp. from October 1997), sources for news on the Congo, maps, information on the government, history, the national anthem, links to other Congo sites, how to write Congo in Chinese, etc. An independent site not affiliated with any government or party by Jean-Francois Blanc.
Masks, sculpture from Angola, Congo (Kinshasa and Brazzaville).
Sells maps of Congo (Brazzaville) (geologic, topographic, atlas) and other countries.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/congob.html   (2384 words)

  
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The question now is where is Russia's Yelena Slesarenko who is the only high jumper who has gone higher than Cloete at 2.04m.She has been off the circuit in recent weeks and is likely to reappear again in Athens.
Herbert, who qualified with 48.02sec then suffered a setback from being second best in the world this year through illness after the Africa Championships in Brazzaville, will go all out to test his fitness against Felix Sanchez, the favourite for gold at Athens.
Kruger, who qualified for Athens with 66.70m is building up to a peak and hopes to move closer to his personal best of 70.32m.
www.news24.com /News24/Olympics2004/SANews/0,,2-1652-1653_1568855,00.html   (496 words)

  
 Brazzaville Hotels: Le Meridien Brazzaville Luxury Hotels in Brazzaville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Le Meridien Brazzaville is the largest hotel in Brazzaville with the largest private meeting facilty in town and is the only international chain hotel in Congo.
Charm and serenity characterise this hotel with its peaceful residential neighbourhood, not far from the lively city centre.
From the quality of its facilities to the excellence of its restaurants that include the most famous restaurant in Brazzaville, Le Flamboyant, together with La Paillote poolside restaurant, serving both French and African dishes, everything possible is done to ensure the well-being of our guests.
www.lemeridien.com /republic_of_congo/brazzaville/hotel_cg1681.shtml   (171 words)

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