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	The Raw Story \| UN confident Congolese capital is safe ahead of run-off vote
		Nairobi- A high-ranking UN official assured Tuesday that Congolese and international troops would be able to secure the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo in case of violence during the second round of voting in elections later this month.
		The Congolese return to the polls for a run-off ballot on October 29 bringing to a close the country's first democratic elections in four decades.
		A combined force of Congolese, UN and EU troops were patrolling the capital and conducting arms searches in the lead-up to the vote, he said.
	rawstory.com /news/2006/UN_confident_Congolese_capital_is_s_10172006.html (331 words)

	Congolese
		Congolese migration to Chicago has been shaped by the political situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
		Congolese leaders formed the Congolese Association in the early 1990s as an informal social and mutual aid organization.
		In 2001, Congolese leaders formed the New Community Church of Chicago in Evanston to build a strong, spiritual community of Congolese from different religious backgrounds.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1397.html (443 words)

	UNHCR - Congolese refugees in Zambia await DRC election before returning home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Congolese refugee children at school in Mwange Camp in Zambia, where they are taught in French and Swahili in preparation for their return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Most of the Congolese refugees are located in two camps set up by UNHCR and the government of Zambia in the north of the country.
		While Congolese refugees in Zambia are waiting to see what the result of the election will mean for them – which parties win, what tension it creates, what potential there is for violence – they pass the time preparing for their return in the camps.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=4422b6d14 (884 words)

	For Congolese torn by war, music still a beacon - The Boston Globe
		Congolese music, often called Lingala, after one of the country's main languages, has long commanded the attention of musicians, fans, and dancers throughout Central Africa.
		So strong is the allure of Congolese music in Africa that it has, so to speak, conquered the conquerors.
		The son of a Swiss mother and Congolese father, the boy is talkative at an age when many children can be painfully shy.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/02/01/for_congolese_torn_by_war_music_still_a_beacon?mode=PF (853 words)

	Rumba (Congolese): National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Congolese musicians started playing Cuban songs, mimicking the Spanish lyrics or replacing them with verses in their own languages and composing original songs in Cuban styles.
		In Congolese rumba, guitars—usually in pairs or threes—covered all the parts that the guitar, the trés, the violins and the piano played in Cuban music.
		Musicians still mined Congolese traditions for raw material, but now the models for their finished product were more often American rock and funk than Cuban music.
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/rumba__congolese__780 (1034 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Congolese conundrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Congolese refugees fleeing fighting in the northeastern Congo town of Bunia arrive in boats in southwest Uganda.
		Thousands of Congolese civilians have fled their homes and the security situation is fast deteriorating.
		The Congolese government controls western and southern parts of the sprawling country the size of Western Europe, including much of the mineral-rich southern province of Katanga.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/638/in3.htm (1232 words)

	Congolese Dance
		Social Congoles dances are shaped by, not only the Congolese, but also by the influence of other ethnic groups, as they come to meet at parties, nightclubs and festivals within the Congo.
		The Congolese social dances are formed and contained primarily within the Congo, whereas the contemporary forms can be seen anywhere in the world and are not as closely related to its spiritually-driven predecessors.
		Whatever the label (ritual, social or contemporary), the Congolese influence on various dance forms is apparent.
	www.mbongivillage.org /dance.html (259 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rebels capture strategic Congolese town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both renegade commanders were members of the Congolese Rally for Democracy, a former rebel group that controlled large swathes of eastern and northeastern Congo and was backed by Rwanda before it joined the government.
		A Congolese government delegation that had planned to fly to Bukavu to negotiate an end to the fighting said it was returning to Kinshasa.
		The delegation was led by Azarias Ruberwa, one of four vice presidents and leader of the Congolese Rally for Democracy.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-02-congo-fighting_x.htm (864 words)

	Kagame to Congolese People
		But what has created more of a problem, is a lack of leadership itself, within RCD and the wider Congolese communication, to directly communicate with the population and explain to them the problems, including why Rwanda and Rwandan troops are in the Congo.
		I imagine there are better Congolese than these two, Kabila and Mobutu, for the benefit of the Congolese and the benefit of neighbors, like Rwanda.
		To the Congolese people, I would say to them that they have a problem in their country, in a sense that their leaders, Mobutu and Kabila, had a lot of problems.
	www.lesoftonline.net /congolese.html (2537 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Kekele, Kinavana (Stern's Africa) - Press Release
		Congolese listeners were unfamiliar with the Spanish language and the Euro-American instruments, melodies and harmonies of Cuban songs, but they immediately recognized the rhythms and the way singers called and choruses responded.
		Much more than a fashionable import, Cuban music was what Congolese music had developed into, so people treated it with pride, as though they owned it, and took liberties with it, as was their right, because, after all, it was still theirs.
		But Congolese musicians and dancers had plenty of rhythms at their fingertips and feet; what most attracted them to Portabales were his melodies.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/278.cfm (1310 words)

	UNHCR - UNHCR moves Congolese refugees to safety in Burundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The newly-built Cishemeye II transit centre awaiting the arrival of Congolese refugees from the Burundi/Congolese border area.
		Some 206 Congolese refugees were moved to Gasorwe refugee camp in northern Burundi from Gatumba reception centre, a make–shift collection of plastic–sheeting shelters that is designed to process refugees when they arrive, not to house them for longer periods.
		Shabani Macozi, a 38–year–old Congolese mother of six, held up a thin cotton shawl wrapped around her shoulders and complained, "This piece of cloth is all I have.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3e4bd3362&page=news (785 words)

	Congolese Vote in First Open Election in Four Decades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Congolese are voting in their first open election in more than 40 years, in hopes of
		Many Congolese have expressed fears that the losers of the presidential election, many of whom still have armed groups, will not accept the outcome of the election.
		Twenty-five-million registered Congolese voters are also selecting a new 500-seat parliament from nearly 10,000 candidates.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-07-30-voa19.cfm (593 words)

	UNHCR - Congolese refugees prepare to move to new camps in Burundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Burundian authorities have informed the Congolese that they need to move from the border to camps farther inland, where their safety can be better assured.
		Refugees still in Rugombo, and those in Karurama, now face the same dilemma as the Congolese in Gatumba: to move to safer camp farther inside Burundi, or go back to DRC, something most of the refugees are not yet ready to do.
		Congolese refugees quit the Burundian capital and head for a camp
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=414841484&page=news (894 words)

	PC(USA) - 217th General Assembly (2006) - Overture 56: On Support for Congolese People in the Democratic Republic of ...
		Address in prayer and in action the human suffering and injustices inflicted upon the Congolese people, of whom our Presbyterian brothers and sisters numbering approximately two million are an integral part.
		Congolese human rights abuses existed during the entire seventy-five year rule of King Leopold and the Belgian government, and throughout the entire 32 years of Mobutu’s dictatorship.
		The people of DRC are now urgently calling for a free, fair, transparent, and democratic election of their national leaders as promised to them by the Inter-Congolese Dialogue, sanctioned by a Global and Inclusive Accord and a Transitional Constitution approved by Congolese negotiators in Pretoria, South Africa, on April 4, 2003.
	www.pcusa.org /ga217/business/overtures/ovt5605.htm (830 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Congolese prepare to vote on constitution
		Over 24 million Congolese have registered for their constitutional referendum, but many are asking how they can endorse a charter they have not seen.
		Congolese have not been to the polls since 1970, when the late Mobutu Sese Seko was the sole presidential candidate.
		With Sunday's referendum just days away, Congolese were crowding into electoral offices demanding copies of the proposed charter meant to consolidate peace and build a sense of nationhood after a five-year war that ended in 2002 More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/16/69997.html (2645 words)

	9news.com \| News \| Officials: At least 180 Congolese refugees massacred in Burundian refugee camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Burundian Hutu rebel faction claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday near the Congolese border, saying its fighters were in pursuit of Burundian soldiers who fled to the camp from a nearby army position.
		United Nations officials are studying whether the attack was carried out with the assistance of Congolese tribal fighters known as the Mayi Mayi or Rwandan rebels based in eastern Congo, she said.
		A renegade Congolese army commander -- whose troops briefly seized Bukavu in June over complaints that Banyamulenge kinsmen were targeted by Congolese authorities -- said the attack in Burundi proved his charges.
	www.9news.com /acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=5e10fe52-0abe-421a-01f0-5398b31f2706&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf (828 words)

	CJ Online \| News \| Congolese president killed in shooting at his home 01/17/01
		Intelligence officers in Rwanda also said they had unconfirmed reports that Kabila was killed in the intense shooting Tuesday afternoon at the presidential palace, which lasted a half-hour.
		The Congolese government would not elaborate publicly on their president's condition, or even whether he'd been shot.
		Mulumba said the shooting proved that the Congolese people wanted a change, but denied that rebels had anything to do with it.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/011701/new_congolese.shtml (872 words)

	MCC \| Congolese Mennonites prepare for national elections
		Congolese Mennonites are becoming engaged in the political process as their country prepares to hold democratic elections in July.
		The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire, was devastated by decades of corrupt dictatorship and a civil war from 1998 to 2003.
		Congolese Mennonites are using educational posters to teach their churches and communities what it means to vote in a democracy.
	www.mcc.org /news/news/2006/2006-05-04_congo.html (623 words)

	Congolese Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the Congolese culture developed, forest peoples took the music from the jungles to the savanna.
		The contemporary Congolese music of today is a fusion of these traditional ritual musical styles and the social music of the village.
		Congolese music came to the United States via the slave trade.
	www.mbongivillage.org /music.html (124 words)

	afrol News - Unions to increase Congolese women's part-take in politics
		According to Ms Bosiko, the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Congo Kinshasa are "extremely important" for the entire Congolese population.
		The UNTC is among the pressure groups that propagates the "utmost importance" in organising a fair, free and transparent poll.
		Congolese women now should be able to go to the polls fully informed, Ms Bosiko holds.
	www.afrol.com /articles/18854 (681 words)

	Congolese militiamen may have freed two - Boston.com
		Two U.N. peacekeepers who were taken hostage in eastern Congo in May have been released, but five others remained in the hands of Congolese militiamen, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
		A 1998-2002 war that drew armies from six countries into Congo is over, but eastern Congo remains awash in Congolese and foreign militiamen who prey on civilians.
		A 17,000-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo -- the world's largest -- is helping an ill-trained and poorly paid Congolese army try to flush the well-armed and well-trained rebels out of civilian zones in time for the vote.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/06/27/congolese_militiamen_may_have_freed_two?mode=PF (304 words)

	Belgium's Forces Fight Congolese To Quell Risings
		White residents continued to flee the sprawling Congo in the wake of attacks and pillaging by Congolese soldiers.
		The Congolese Government restored the ferry across the Congo River to Brazzaville, in the Congo Republic, a member of the French Community.
		Congolese took charge of the Congo radio after Information Minister Anicet Kashamura was angered by broadcasts by European announcers who reported that white women had been raped by Congolese troops.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/600711risings.html (885 words)

	monuc.org: Hundreds of Rwandan insurgents attack Congolese soldiers in eastern Congo; four rebels killed, four soldiers ...
		Hundreds of Rwandan insurgents attacked Congolese army positions in volatile eastern Congo, sparking a six-hour gun battle in which four rebels were killed, a Congolese official said Monday.
		Four Congolese soldiers were injured in the fighting, which took place Sunday in South Kivu province, said Jean-Pierre Mazambi, the province's governor.
		Joelle Sabella, a spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said the Congolese army had reported that there were clashes between Rwandan rebels and Congolese troops in South Kivu.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=2688 (358 words)

	The congolese people must win this time
		If the perspective of the basic interests of congolese people, rather than those of an individual leader, were to guide African leaders' consideration of the conflict, unity of perspective on the conflict would be almost inevitable.
		To stay in power, for power's sake without accountability to the majority of the Congolese people, he resorted to geopolitics, a politics of exclusion, of divide and rule of transforming differences into sources of discriminations.
		The overthrow of Mobutu's regime, by the Congolese people led by AFDL and the States of the sub-region, generated, thus, tremendous hope for the Congolese resumption of the process of democratization and for the return of peace and security in the sub-region.
	www.congonline.com /Forum1/Forum01/Mwepu06.htm (4113 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Congolese conundrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hailed as "a demonstration of African solidarity" by Congolese President Kabila, the agreement stipulates that the Congolese government forces round up, disarm and repatriate Rwandan opposition forces based in eastern Congo before the end of October in exchange for a withdrawal of Rwandan and Ugandan forces currently stationed in the DRC.
		Hopes for the cessation of hostilities were boosted when the African countries embroiled in the Congolese conflict indicated their willingness to collaborate more closely in ending the bloodshed.
		One of the key stipulations of the Rwanda-DRC deal is that the Congolese and Rwandan forces cooperate to hunt and disarm Rwandan Hutu armed opposition groups such as the FDLR and the Interhamwe forces active in the eastern Congo.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/598/in3.htm (1316 words)

	Congolese Irish Partnership letter to the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs - Indymedia Ireland
		I am writing to notify you of the extreme concern of the Congolese Irish Partnership regarding the critical escalation of the war in the East and North —Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		A friend of the Congolese Irish Partnership, based in Ituri in North Eastern Congo, has reported to the Congolese Irish Partnership by telephone and email, that in Drodro town 20 mass graves, some scraps of clothing and traces of blood were found in freshly—turned soil last week.
		It is unconscionable therefore that the Congolese people, who have suffered for so long, and died in their millions, are ignored by the international community.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/43248 (812 words)

	afrol News - Congolese broadcaster shut down over diamond-reporting
		MIBA, owned 80 percent by the Congolese state and 20 percent by Sibeka (a subsidiary of the Société Générale de Belgique), is among the world's largest producers of industrial diamonds.
		In his 30 December programme, the Congolese journalist had criticised local military leaders, accusing them of having become diamond traders and allowed their unsupervised troops to steal goods from the local population.
		Also the UN has documented parallel criminal activities among the Congolese troops in the region, which are common knowledge.
	www.afrol.com /News2003/drc006_diamonds.htm (640 words)

	Congolese Religious Leaders' Position on the War (January 2000)
		The Congolese people have suffered from abuses of their human rights, from massive killings, and from the displacement of thousands of Congolese within their country and the exodus of thousands more to foreign countries.
		We are committed to this project because we stand for reconciliation of all the Congolese people, whatever their political orientation and source of military support.
		It is sad to remind the Congolese and the international community that none of these governments has led the people to a democratic process.
	gbgm-umc.org /africa/drcongo/congostatement020200.htm (1563 words)

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