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	Congo, Democratic Republic of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		Congo lies astride the equator, and virtually all of the country is part of the vast Congo River drainage basin.
		In S Congo are highland plateaus (average elevation: c.3,000 ft/910 m; highest elevation: c.6,800 ft/2,070 m), which are covered with savanna.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Congo-Kin.html (4090 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congo
		Briefly, the successive stages of the foundation of the Congo Free State were as follows: As a consequence of the expeditions (1840; 1 May, 1873) of Livingstone and Stanley, public attention began to be drawn to Central Africa, and Leopold II divined the greatest possibilities of the newly-discovered country.
		The innumerable rivers of the Congo are rocky in their upper courses and cut their way by rapids from one terrace to another, until, on the great alleuvial plains of the centre, they form an immense network of from 9,000 to 11,000 miles of navigable water-ways and spread out fan-like from Leopoldville.
		In the Congo territory itself a governor-general is at the head of the administration.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04228a.htm (10013 words)

	Colonial heads of Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		Heads of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		Heads of state of the Congo Free State
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_heads_of_Congo (139 words)

	Congo
		Emile Ilunga, head of the largest faction of the Congolese Rally for Democracy, added his signature to the accord, which was passed to the rebel leaders in alphabetical order of their names.
		In Congo, the third-largest country in area in Africa, it is a scramble for political power as much as for its bounteous diamonds, gold, timber and coffee.
		Congo has been embroiled in the conflict commonly known as Africa's first world war since August 1998, when the rebels and their foreign backers launched an armed campaign aimed at toppling Kabila's father and predecessor, Laurent Kabila.
	www.uvm.edu /~fgause/congo.htm (17490 words)

	Belgium confronts its colonial demons \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		More than a century after King Leopold II of Belgium claimed Congo as his personal colony, an unprecedented investigation into his country's murky colonial past and long-ignored allegations of genocide is to be carried out.
		Doubtless to the fury of Belgium's dwindling band of "old colonials", the state-funded Royal Museum for Central Africa - formerly known as the Museum of the Belgian Congo - has commissioned some of the country's most eminent historians to give the public the one thing they have been deprived of for so long: the truth.
		Controversially, Hochschild compared the death toll in the Belgian-administered Congo to the Holocaust and Stalin's purges.
	www.guardian.co.uk /congo/story/0,12292,765632,00.html (798 words)

	875 Congo on David T. Nicholson's Wednesday-Night.com
		Stopping the Genocide in Congo A new force approved by the Security Council is a real improvement to help stop the killing in eastern Congo, but it may not be strong enough.
		Fleeing DR Congo with tales of horror Allegations of cannibalism and mass murder are coming from Congolese civilians of the Hema ethnic group who have fled across the border into western Uganda.
		Congo (previously known as Belgian Congo, Congo/Léopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa, Zaire) is a vast and incredibly resource-rich country which has suffered from the consequences of the carving up of the African continent by the European powers at the end of the 19th century.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Wed875Congo.htm (3389 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo: History
		The same month the International Court of Justice ruled that Congo was entitled to compensation from Uganda for looting by Ugandan forces during the recent civil war.
		Regional framework for state reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Diagnosing the crisis in the Republic of Congo.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0857522.html (3492 words)

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		As Congo heads toward democracy after decades of misrule, deploying ballots and election equipment for presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled July 30 is proving a logistical nightmare.
		With only 500 kilometers (about 300 miles) of paved roads in all of Congo, the electoral commission is relying on ballots tied to the back of bicycles, rocking on shaky dugout canoes and atop villagers' heads to reach the most remote villages.
		Congo's electoral commission disbursed about US$11 million more than their US$19 million budget for salaries during voter enrollment last year, said Simon-Pierre Nanitelamio, a senior official at the U.N. Development Fund, which is managing an election fund with contributions from donors like the European Union and Canada.
	www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/Congo/viewstory.php?storyid=8573 (903 words)

	CNN.com - Congo president killed during coup attempt, says Belgian Foreign Ministry - January 16, 2001
		KINSHASA, Congo -- Congolese President Laurent Kabila was shot dead during an attempted coup d'etat on Tuesday, the Belgian Foreign Ministry has told CNN.
		A spokesman for the Ministry said that the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo was "probably" shot by one of his own bodyguards.
		Belgium is the former colonial ruler of the Democratic Republic of Congo and maintains strong ties with the Central African nation.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/01/16/congo.coup.04 (700 words)

	Congo 1960-1964 KH
		The CIA station in the Congo cabled Washington in August that "Embassy and station believe Congo experiencing classic communist effort [to] takeover government." CIA Director Allen Dulles warned of a "communist takeover of the Congo with disastrous consequences...
		The UN officials who led the Congo operation were Americans, in secret collaboration with the State Department, and in exclusion of the Soviet bloc; the latter's citizens who worked at the UN Secretariat were kept from seeing the Congo cables.
		The government was now headed by none other than Moise Tshombe, a man called "Africa's most unpopular African" for his widely-recognized role in the murder of the popular Lumumba and for his use of white mercenaries, many of them South Africans and Rhodesians, during his secession attempt in Katanga.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/Congo_KH.html (1824 words)

	BRIA(16:2) King Leopold, Heart of Darkness, Belgium, Congo, Rockefeller, Standard Oil, Monopoly, United States v. ...
		But Congo clan chiefs and African Muslim slave traders from upriver were happy to sell their slaves to the Portuguese and other Europeans who transported them to America.
		Of course, the people of the Congo took no part in the Berlin Conference and were unaware that their lives were about to tragically change.
		The Congo people rebelled by ambushing army units, fleeing their villages to hide in the wilderness, and setting the rubber vine forests on fire.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria16_2.html (5715 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the : History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The Congo, in west-central Africa, is bordered by the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Democratic Republic of the Congo - Congo, Democratic Republic of the, formerly Zaïre, republic (2005 est.
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: History - History Early History The indigenous inhabitants of the region of the Congo were probably Pygmies,...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0198161.html (1516 words)

	The Story of the French Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As in the Congo Free State, the bulk of the French Congo forests are full of rubber vines and trees.
		Emulation and envy were aroused in French colonial circles by the prodigious development in rubber exports from the Congo Free State.
		Their respective heads were prominent men in the civic and commercial life of Liverpool.
	www.boondocksnet.com /editions/morel/morel10.html (1766 words)

	King Léopold II of Belgium killer file (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the influence of the Europeans steadily moves inland, the Congo River basin is raised in the imagination of the West, with the exploits of 19th Century explorers such as David Livingstone receiving wide publicity.
		France is given 670,000 square kilometres on the north bank of the Congo (modern Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic) and Portugal 910,000 square kilometres to the south (modern Angola).
		According to the British secretary of state for the colonies, the native workers had complained of being forcibly drafted as soldiers and of being flogged and in some instances shot.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/leopold.html (4506 words)

	Tense DR Congo heads for first multi-party vote in 46 years
		The Democratic Republic of Congo geared up for its first multi-party elections in 46 years of bloodstained post-colonial rule in a key step towards peace in volatile central Africa.
		Head of state Joseph Kabila is the frontrunner in the presidential race in which pits him against former rebel leaders who waged a five-year war on the regime with the help of neighbouring states.
		Since he was deposed with Rwandan help in 1997 it has slid further into poverty as rebels and their foreign backers looted its natural resources and fighting ruined its precarious infrastructure.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=135452 (860 words)

	Canberras in the Congo: 1960
		The transfer of power to an untrained and inept central Government was far too rapid; disillusion sprawl through the civil population and, more dangerously, the Armed forces, as the rosy promises of these new politicians failed to materialise.
		AIK Suares, the first four Canberras left their base at Agra on 9 October 1961 for the Congo, flying by way of Jamnagar, Aden and Nairobi; four USAF C-124 Globemasters transported the 150 NCOs and airmen of the ground party, plus support equipment.
		He was in the thick of the battle and there were shells howling over our heads as he pointed out on the map the areas he wanted neutralised; and then took me forward to point out the exact targets on the ground!
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /IAF/History/Congo (1827 words)

	Lists of incumbents - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - These are lists of incumbents, i (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Heads of state of the Republic of the Congo
		Heads of government of the Republic of the Congo
		Colonial Heads of Port Cresson and Bassa Cove
	www.millvalleycaus.com /details/Lists_of_incumbents (910 words)

	Conference to Build the ASI - Report from Congo-Brazzaville
		In South Africa, the nation-building process is going on, the State is being internalized in the heads of the people, and a State internalized in the heads of the people is thus accepted by the people.
		In Congo, there is no working class nor bourgeois class party as seen in Europe, in the sense that when they win they win everything or when they lose they lose everything.
		The parties that we have in Congo are not ideological parties.
	burningspearuhuru.com /0603_congo-brazzaville.htm (1130 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Congo river reopens to trade
		Nine huge barges left Kinshasa's port on the Congo to make the long journey upstream across the front-line and into rebel-held territory.
		They are carrying fuel and other essential goods to the towns of Bumba and Lisala in Equateur Province, which is held by the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC).
		The blocked trade routes resulting from DR Congo's four-year war have had a disastrous effect on the economy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2141081.stm (312 words)

	Heads of state of the Congo Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[edit] List of Heads of State of the Congo Free State
		Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		This page was last modified 10:31, 24 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heads_of_state_of_the_Congo_Free_State (104 words)

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