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	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LOCATION and GEOGRAPHY: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) is located in South Central Africa with a narrow strip of land on the northern bank of the Zaire River.
		It is bound by the Republic of Congo and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola to the southwest, Zambia to the southeast, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda to the east, Sudan to the northeast and the Central African Republic to the north and northwest.
		CLIMATE: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) is crossed by the Equator and the seasons are reversed in the north and south.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/DemRepCongo.htm (1712 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		The Congo, in west-central Africa, is bordered by the Congo Republic, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Congo, Democratic Republic of the, formerly Zaïre, republic (1995 est.
		Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Economy - Economy The Congo's mineral wealth is the mainstay of the economy, but the development of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0198161.html (1329 words)

	EUROPA - Development - Countries - Congo (Brazzaville) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Republic of Congo is a member of the CEMAC and of the CEEAC.
		Following the elections, the EU Presidency, in a statement of 27 March 2002, took note of the result of the elections and requested the government to take the necessary measures to overcome the different shortcomings observed during the presidential elections in view of the preparations of legislative elections.
		The aim of the cooperation between the EC and the Republic of Congo is to support the implementation of a post-conflict programme which will further the process of stabilisation which is essential for the development of the country.
	europa.eu.int /comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=cg&lng=en&status=old (1667 words)

	Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Congo (Kinshasa) gives information on election and election results in Congo (Kinshasa).
		Congo (Kinshasa) is a country in civil war in which political parties don't play a real role.
		The father of president Joseph Kabila seized power after a civil war and proclaimed himself president.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Congo (117 words)

	Rwanda article - Rwanda Africa Uganda Burundi Democratic Republic the Congo Tanzania - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is bordered by Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.
		Most have since returned, although some militias remain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and have become involved in that country's civil war.
		It is separated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi River valley to the west; it is bounded on the north by Uganda, to the east by Tanzania, and to the south by Burundi.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Rwanda (713 words)

	COUNTRY ASSESSMENT
		It shares borders with eight other countries: Central African Republic and Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi to the east, (also to the east is Lake Tanganyika which separates DRC from Tanzania); Zambia to the south; Angola to the south-west; and Republic of Congo to the north-west.
		The political leader of the eastern separatists, Moise Tshombe, became prime minister pending legislative elections, and the country was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		RE: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – Asylum
	www.asylumlaw.org /docs/congodemocraticrepublic/ind99b_congodr_ca.htm (11713 words)

	Congo (Brazzaville) (08/05)
		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.
		First inhabited by Pygmies, Congo was later settled by Bantu groups that also occupied parts of present-day Angola, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), forming the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those states.
		Congo benefited from the postwar expansion of colonial administrative and infrastructure spending as a result of its central geographic location within AEF and the federal capital at Brazzaville.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2825.htm (3893 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The "suspension" of political parties and the ban on their activities decreed by Congo authorities could scarcely be considered as a measure "necessary in a democratic society" since the democratic exercise has historically been linked to the contest of power by political parties in an atmosphere of free association and free expression.
		One of the main achievements of the democratic movement in the former Zaire was the relative freedom that the private press and private broadcasting sector had wrested from the repressive rule of Mobutu Sese Seko's government during its last few years of an otherwise flawed transition to democracy.
		From the onset of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the bustling private press of Kinshasa maintained a critical tone vis-à-vis the new government that was in line with an independence it inherited from its combative past under Mobutu.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1997/congo2 (18706 words)

	Congo (Kinshasa) (08/05)
		The area known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 10,000 years ago and settled in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. by Bantus from present-day Nigeria.
		Parliamentary elections in 1960 produced Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu as president of the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		The Congo was the world's fourth-largest producer of industrial diamonds during the 1980s, and diamonds continue to dominate exports, accounting for over half of exports ($642 million) in 2003.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2823.htm (4005 words)

	April 2003 News Monitor - Prevent Genocide International
		Congo's war is estimated to have killed more than three million people and is intertwined with other conflicts in the region, including those in Burundi and Rwanda.
		It was partly to pursue the perpetrators of that genocide that Rwanda invaded Congo in 1998.
		The presidents of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda are attending talks in South Africa aimed at averting a further flare-up of hostilities in the east of the mineral-rich Congo.
	www.preventgenocide.org /prevent/news-monitor/2003apr.htm (20494 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		Congo, Democratic Republic of the: History - History Early History The indigenous inhabitants of the region of the Congo were probably Pygmies,...
		Democratic Republic of Congo asserts right to seek help in defence of natural wealth against outside forces.
		Democratic Republic of Congo President assures Council of his commitment to Lusaka Agreement -- Part 2 of 2.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0198161.html (1524 words)

	Congo - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is bound by Gabon to the west, Cameroon to the northwest, Central African Republic to the north, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) to the south and east as well as Angola and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.
		In June 1991 after the conclusion of the National Conference a new constitution was drafted and Andre Milongo was appointed Prime Minister of a transitional government until scheduled elections in 1992..
		On Mar. 15, 1992 a referendum resulted in the approval of the new constitution with legislative elections held in June and July 1992.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/congo.htm (1283 words)

	August 2003 News Monitor - Prevent Genocide International
		The United Nations and aid agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported indiscriminate killings and atrocities such as young girls being abducted and raped, elderly people hacked to death and families being made to eat the hearts of relatives killed by militiamen.
		The Democratic Republic of Congo is an area cursed by an abundance of natural wealth from gold through diamonds and timber to oil and even the mobile-phone mineral coltan.
		During the election campaign earlier this year, violence led to several multinationals pulling their staff out of the poverty stricken Delta and led to Nigeria's crude oil exports to be cut by 40%.
	www.preventgenocide.org /prevent/news-monitor/2003aug.htm (19583 words)

	Congo (the Democratic Republic of) - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: On the precipice – The deepening human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ituri
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: “Our brothers who help kill us” – Economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east
		It withdrew in September and was replaced by a reinforced brigade of peace-keepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC).
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/cod-summary-eng (2272 words)

	Armed Conflict Report 2000 - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Congo's vast jungles are now populated by untold thousands who no longer feel safe in their homes but are ill equipped for living in the bush.
		Until 1995, fighting over land and economic and political power in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) was mostly between the resident Hutu ethnic group and local Nyanga, Nande and Hunde groups in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu.
		Competition for minerals is regarded as one of the factors contributing to the conflict in the DR Congo.
	www.ploughshares.ca /CONTENT/ACR/ACR00/ACR00-DRC.html (8367 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Security Council extends Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo until 1 ...
		It will also depend on stepped-up action by the Governments of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure that their territories are not used to support the flow of arms into the region and for the transport of illegal mineral wealth out of the region.
		The holding of elections and ensuring stable governance thereafter are now the key issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		He intends to present a special report on elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Council in the coming weeks, including an update of the electoral process and any outstanding political, operational and security requirements to see the process through to success.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6AYS5P?OpenDocument (1683 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Vital breakthrough for Congo
		They are a vital component of Congo's 1999 Lusaka peace agreement and a significant achievement for Masire, who has worked doggedly to arrange them since his appointment as facilitator in 1999 in the face of constant obstruction, provocation and delay from all sides.
		The RCD said it is not the job of the inter-Congolese dialogue to discuss the matter, which has been assigned by the Lusaka agreement to a joint military commission of all the belligerent states.
		Congolese Foreign Minister Leonard She Okitundu told reporters on Tuesday that elections would not be possible in Congo for at least three years because a census, referendum and constitution are needed first, and these will "take time" to achieve.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/9f4b626235d3ec8ac1256ab2004477ec?OpenDocument (621 words)

	monuc.org: Ambassador On Elections in Democratic Republic of Congo ::: 28/10/2004
		monuc.org: Ambassador On Elections in Democratic Republic of Congo ::: 28/10/2004
		Ambassador On Elections in Democratic Republic of Congo
		Angolan ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mawete Joao Baptista, on Tuesday here defended the creation of conditions for the holding of elections "with success" in that central Africa country within eight months.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=4106 (474 words)

	United Press International: U.N. mandates DR Congo elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He also called for sweeping army and police reforms, as well as a long list of laws that need to be passed through parliament and the drafting of a new constitution as areas of particular urgency, Voice of America said.
		All of this has to happen before campaigning starts in six months time, and in a country which has never had a democratic election, the BBC said.
		Congo is emerging from a five-year war that involved six neighboring countries, divided the nation and killed 3 million people, mostly from hunger and disease.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20041123-101847-6004r (178 words)

	Reuters AlertNet - Democratic Republic of Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Borders Central African Republic in the north, Sudan in the northeast, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Lake Tanganyika in the east.
		Violence in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga Province has been displacing thousands of civilians, according to local media and two international NGOs.
		Congo's Independent Electoral Commission has said that 2.9 million people in the capital, Kinshasa, had signed up to vote in the 2006 elections by the time registration centres closed on Sunday.
	www.alertnet.org /thefacts/countryprofiles/214383.htm (357 words)

	CNN.com - Congo government swears in rebels - Jul. 17, 2003
		The government now has until August 4 to create a plan for holding elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo in about a year.
		A spokesman for the mainly Hema PUSIC rebel group said militias allied to the Lendu tribe attacked the town of Tchomia, around 50 km (30 miles) east of Bunia on the shores of Lake Albert, on Tuesday morning.
		Congo's war broke out in 1998 when neighboring Rwanda and Uganda backed Congolese rebels trying to overthrow then-President Laurent Kabila, accusing him of harboring armed militias that threatened their own security.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/07/17/congo.government (458 words)

	Elections possible in 2005, UN official says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NAIROBI, 14 Jan 2004 (IRIN) - Despite delays in the legislature, general elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could still be held in 2005 in line with last year's all-inclusive peace agreement that ended nearly five years of war in the central African country, a high-ranking UN official said on Monday.
		Swing's comments were reproduced in a communiqué MONUC released on his meeting with the Congo's Parliamentary Committee on External Relations, Defence and Security, in the presence of a visiting Belgian parliamentary delegation.
		He said that the question of refugees and internally displaced people, the presence of foreign armed groups in the DRC and the demobilisation of local armed groups were obstacles that must be overcome if proper elections were to be held.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=38912 (353 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Established as a Belgian colony in 1908, the Republic of the Congo gained its independence in 1960, but its early years were marred by political and social instability.
		He renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC), but in August 1998 his regime was itself challenged by an insurrection backed by Rwanda and Uganda.
		In October 2002, the new president was successful in negotiating the withdrawal of Rwandan forces occupying eastern Congo; two months later, the Pretoria Accord was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and establish a government of national unity.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/cg.html (1557 words)

	CNN - 3D-Globe: Democratic Republic of Congo
		The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, emerged from a rebel coup in 1997 with a new name and new leadership, but prospects for real change after decades of corruption remain uncertain.
		Kabila has promised elections for 1999, but some observers are skeptical.
		May 1997 -- Kabila names himself president and renames the country the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	europe.cnn.com /SPECIALS/infoglobe/codebase/dem.congo.html (469 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Special report of the Secretary-General on elections in the Democratic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Special report of the Secretary-General on elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		The estimate provides for the phased deployment of an additional 2,590 military contingent personnel, 216 civilian police personnel and five formed police units (625 formed police personnel), bringing the Mission’s military, civilian police and formed police strength to 19,290 military personnel, 391 civilian police officers and 750 formed police personnel.
		An indicative breakdown of the estimated additional costs by main categories of expenditure is provided, for information purposes, in the annex to the present addendum.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6E9PWF?OpenDocument (183 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Press statement on DR Congo by Security Council President
		The members of the Council expressed their deep concern at the resumption of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the continuation of instability in the north-east of the country.
		The members of the Council stressed the importance of full implementation by the Governments of both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, of their commitments under the 30 July Pretoria accord.
		The members of the Council expressed concern at reports of continuing sponsorship of proxy groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/79b53ffd4119acb985256caf006c2c9f?OpenDocument (551 words)

	ZNet \|Africa \| Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Professor Wamba dia Wamba is the leader of the Rassemblement Congolais la democratic (RCD-Kingani), and is based in Kinshasa, the capital town of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		Mobutuâs ex-FAZ is being suspected to favour JP Bembaâs MLC [Ugandan-backed Movement for the Liberation of Congo].
		Since the debacle of the 1960, with the UN Congo mission, brought in by a request from the Lumumba government, there seems to be no real grasp of the limitations of the UN missions by the Congolese public consciousness.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=5754 (2005 words)

	Welcome to "The Mirror Online" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, tensions are high in the Congo at the moment as there are fears that full-scale war might break out again.
		Although the greater part of the DRC has enjoyed relative calm since the end of the war, the situation remains chaotic in several parts in the east.
		In the DRC itself, various stakeholders to the peace process- representatives of the Executive, the Senate and National Assembly, the Independent Electoral Commission; leaders of political parties, religious leaders and representatives of the International Committee to Support the Transition (ICST) are currently engaged in protracted discussions to map the way forward on holding democratic elections.
	www.africaonline.co.zw /mirror/stage/archive/050206/national702.html (314 words)

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