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	Orientale, Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It borders Equateur province to the west, Kasai-Oriental to the south-west, Maniema to the south, and Nord-Kivu to the south-east.
		The Ituri district of Orientale is the scene of the ongoing Ituri conflict.
		CDC "Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orientale,_Congo (157 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It borders the Central African Republic and Sudan on the north, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania on the east, Zambia and Angola on the south, and the Republic of the Congo on the west.
		Congo was given to King Leopold II of Belgium in the Conference of Berlin in 1885.
		Clockwise from the west, it is bounded by Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Congo-Kinshasa (2376 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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)

	Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite President Laurent-Désiré Kabila's claims that his was a transitional government leading to a new constitution and full elections by April 1999, these elections have not as of 2004 been held, and a 1998 draft constitution has not been finalized.
		The president is head of a 26-member cabinet dominated by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (ADFL).
		In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a government of national unity, though final peace remains elusive.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Politics_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (871 words)

	New Humanitarian Disaster Looms in Equateur, DR Congo
		The resumption of fighting in the past two weeks between Ugandan-backed MLC rebels and Congolese government troops is wreaking havoc in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		The headquarters of the Congo Central Conference in Kinshasa "is not able to make a full assessment of the situation, because we have lost contact with the church in Ikela," said Mr.
		UN troops were to be deployed to the Congo to oversee implementation of the agreement, but the UN has refused to send troops to the Congo until the guns fall silent.
	gbgm-umc.org /africa/drcongo/gbgm072500mzbm.html (591 words)

	Map Zones : Map of Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		Congo, Democratic Republic of the or Congo-Kinshasa, nation in central Africa, a vast country of dense forests traversed by the powerful Congo River.
		The region was first united as the Congo Free State, a colony created by Belgian king Leopold II in the late 19th century.
		Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war that has drawn in military forces from neighboring states, with Uganda and Rwanda supporting the rebel movements that occupy much of the eastern portion of the state; most of the Congo river boundary with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/democratic_republic_of_congo (2112 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 1971 and 1999 called Zaire, is a nation in central Africa.
		Since 1994, DR Congo has been rent by ethnic strife and civil war, touched off by a massive inflow of refugees from fighting in Rwanda and Burundi.
		Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, yet the economy of the country has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.
	usapedia.com /d/democratic-republic-of-the-congo.html (944 words)

	Democractic Republic of the Congo (DRC) map and information page by World Atlas
		Dissected by the Equator, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly called Zaire, is the third largest country on the African continent.
		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.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/africa/cd.htm (632 words)

	Zaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the military coup of Mobutu (25 Nov 1965) the power of the central government was restored and the number of provinces gradually decreased.
		30 Jun 1960 Autonomous province of the Congo republic.
		districts of Léopold II (in Equateur) and Lomami (in Katanga).
	www.vdiest.nl /Africa/zaire.htm (1579 words)

	USCR: Country Information: Congo-Kinshasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The heaviest military engagements occurred in northern Congo’s Equateur Province and southeastern Congo’s Katanga Province.
		Eastern Congo’s North Kivu and South Kivu provinces—both controlled in part by RCD rebels and the Rwandan military—experienced widespread human rights abuses by all sides, as numerous local militia and Rwandan ethnic Hutu combatants known as Interahamwe fought against the area’s occupying force.
		All four provinces are in eastern Congo, where many local residents opposed Rwandan and RCD rebel troops that occupied that region of the country.
	www.ecoi.net /pub/dh1152_01560drc.htm (3530 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)

	Africa: Women Disciples of Christ of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		The Women Disciples of Christ of the Congo are grouped in a federation called ÒEBBÓ that is ÒEamanebo Ea Bamato BaumaÓ in Lomongo, and means ÒUnion of the Women Disciples of Christ.Ó This federation is headed by a President at each parish and at each Church Post (District or Region).
		The objectives of the organization are for the Women Disciples to become free and beaming Christian women, conscious of their role for the development of the CDCC and capable of intervention for improvement according to the CDCC constitution and for the conditions of the socio-economic life.
		Their social status in Equateur (where the CDCC headquarters are located) and elsewhere is determined by the ways and customs that give value according to gender.
	www.globalministries.org /africa/a020603.htm (853 words)

	afrol News - Congolese repatriate from Central African Republic
		The refugees from Congo Kinshasa's north-western province of Equateur are mostly living in the Central Africa capital, Bangui, where their safety during the last years has not always been provided.
		Fighting between the FLC and the Kinshasa government however was rampant between 1998 and 2002, causing ten of thousands of civilians to cross the border to seek refuge.
		As the situation in Congo's Equateur province has improved - some hold the province to be calmer than the Central African Republic - refugees for months have been calling on the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to assist them to return home.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13857 (634 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Congo rebel 'smuggled servants'
		The MLC was one of two main rebel groups whose insurgency in 1998 plunged DR Congo into a complex war, which at its height drew in half a dozen African countries.
		However, the group was accused at the end of last year of committing serious human rights violations, including cannibalism, in parts of northern DR Congo, notably in the Ituri region, which is still plagued by fighting despite the peace accord.
		MLC rebels have also been accused of committing atrocities in the DR Congo's northern neighbour, the Central African Republic, where they were sent in October last year to prop up the then president Ange-Felix Patasse after a bid to oust him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3034001.stm (365 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Land and People
		Congo lies astride the equator, and virtually all of the country is part of the vast
		Poverty and War: Civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is reviving old ethnic rivalries and bringing death and misery to some of Africa's poorest people.
		Crisis of government, ethnic schisms, civil war, and regional destabilization of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0857520.html (573 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the -> Land and People on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, January 2002-June 2003.
		BUNIA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-- A young soldier holds his automatic weapon in the town of Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday, May 30, 2003.
		BUNIA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO-- Kabagame Lokana, 25, recovers in the medical clinic in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo after he was slashed across the face and his hands mutilated by a mache
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Congo-Kin_LandandPeople.asp (851 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo DRC on the Internet
		Causes of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the way forward" by Claude Kabemba) and the complete texts of their most recent policy briefs ("From dilemma to détente: Pretoria's policy options on the DRC and Great Lakes" by Francis Kornegay and Chris Landsberg.
		Held the Montreal Conference on Durable Peace and Democratic Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (Jan. 1999) and the International Non-Governmental Commission of Inquiry into the Massive Violations of Human Rrights Committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaïre) 1996-1997, (Aug. 1998).
		Congo The Transition, by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and Mandisi Majavu.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/zaire.html (9456 words)

	COUNTRY ASSESSMENT
		The dominant geographical feature is the vast basin of the River Congo, known locally as the Zaire, which slopes upwards on all sides into plateaux and mountain ranges.
		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.
		Later in the year and in early 1999, reports of mass movements of refugees displaced by the war, and of atrocities committed by both sides, were issued.
	www.asylumlaw.org /docs/congodemocraticrepublic/ind99b_congodr_ca.htm (11713 words)

	Africa, Africa! -- At the Edge of the Jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a river port squatting at the confluence of the mighty, tawny Congo, so wide that some days you could not see the opposite bank, and a tributary called the Ruki.
		Although in 1964 it was a shrinking island of civilization, Coq had only a few years earlier served as the capital of the Equateur, one of the Belgian Congo’s six colonial provinces.
		I arrived in the Congo from a training tour in Brussels just at the time the married officer assigned to Coquilhatville flatly refused to accept the posting.
	www.cunepress.com /authors/fredhunter/excerpts/edge.htm (291 words)

	Provinces of Congo (Kinshasa)
		At its foundation in 1885, the Congo Free State was divided into 4 districts, headed by Chefs de Division.
		From 1913 onwards the districts outside Katanga were regrouped into three provinces, which became headed by vice-governors general, enjoying a certain degree of self-government, by 1924.
		1 Jul 1960 Autonomous province of the Congo republic.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Congo-K_Provinces_1960-1966.html (3640 words)

	Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	13 people killed in Congo plane crash - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Ukrainian-built Antonov 26, registered by Air Kasai in neighboring Congo, went down 30 miles north of Brazzaville on Friday afternoon, government spokesman Alain Akoula said.
		The plane had taken off from an airstrip in Congo's Equateur province and was bound for that country's capital, Kinshasa, after flying over eastern territory of the Republic of Congo.
		On Friday, Congo's government pulled operating licenses from dozens of the central African nation's airlines, grounding their planes after a spate of air accidents.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/09/10/13_people_killed_in_congo_plane_crash (259 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikitravel
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Republique Democratique du Congo) (Abbreviated:DROC) is a country in Central Africa.
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo should be considered a high-risk destination, particularly outside Kinshasa.
		Congo is a malarian region, so please use insect repellent and take necessary precautions.
	wikitravel.org /en/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (1483 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo Provinces
		Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)
		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.
		Democratic Republic of Congo is divided into ten provinces and one ville neutre (neutral city).
	www.statoids.com /ucd.html (913 words)

	UNHCR - D.R. Congo: violence - relief movements suspended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 14 July 2000, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
		A deteriorating security situation in Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Equateur province is forcing UNHCR to at least temporarily suspend all relief movements on the Congo River and use much more difficult land routes to reach some 11-12,000 recently arrived refugees on the Republic of Congo side.
		In addition to the 10-12,000 refugees in the Liranga and Njoundou area, most of whom arrived in the past few weeks after fighting resumed between DRC government forces and rebels in Equateur Province, there are another 19,000 refugees settled further along the Ubangui River, north of Impfondo, who are assisted by UNHCR.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3ae6b81d5f&page=news (429 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Congo tries to consolidate peace after a five-year war, the government, private companies and foreign donors are all keen to find ways of tapping into the vast resources of timber in Africa's third-largest country.
		A new forestry code aimed at regulating the timber business to the benefit of Congo's government and people rather than just the businesses involved is in the process of being implemented.
		If controls are not imposed and strictly monitored in the next two or three years, Congo will have lost the chance to harvest its wood sustainably, he said.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=27937 (840 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zaire - Transportation And Telecommunications \| Zaire Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inland waterways have traditionally been an important mode of internal transportation, but in the early 1990s, river transport was limited because the marking of navigable channels had been neglected, and barges were both old and in short supply.
		The Congo River is the most significant of the country's rivers, and both passenger and freight ships ply the navigable section between Kinshasa and Kisangani.
		Matadi on the lower Congo River is Zaire's principal port and handles 90 percent of the country's nonmineral exports.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/zaire/zaire140.html (1727 words)

	Kasai-Oriental - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kasai-Oriental (East Kasai) is a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		It borders Kasai-Occidental to the west, Equateur to the north-west, Orientale to the north-east, Maniema to the east, and Katanga to the south.
		This Central African location article is a stub.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kasai-Oriental (143 words)

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