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	AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Great Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eight of the 15 lakes in this region are considered to rank as "great lakes," a testimony to their size and depth.
		Lake Victoria, located between Uganda to the west and Tanzania and Kenya to the east, ranks as the second-largest freshwater lake in the world after the U.S.' Lake Superior.
		Lake Taganayika, located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, ranks as one of the deepest.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/greatlakes/greatlakes_overview_lo.html (248 words)

	Great Lakes Region Country Analysis Brief
		Great Lakes Region: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
		Among the countries of the region, the rate of inflation ranged from an estimated 3.3% in 2003 in Kenya, to 7.8% in Burundi.
		The countries of the region are attempting to discourage the use of fuel wood through joint provision of and promotion of the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/eafrica.html (4595 words)

	TRANSCEND articles: Redesigning Peace in Africa: Overview of the Africa’s Great-Lakes Conflict
		The region is for centuries a receptacle of cyclic bloodily conflicts, mostly caused from a dynamic - victimhood to perpetrators- and vice versa.
		The region is a receptacle of rebel funds and arms that affect the stability of the region.
		Regional organization such the CPGL (the commission for the Great-Lakes Region) could implement structures with a locally based ideal such as the Baraza (Kiswahili word of “Assembly”) or the Nyerere’s Tanzanian ideal “Ujaama” (Kiswahili word of “Familyhood”) that are more easily assimilated by local population.
	www.transcend.org /t_database/printarticle.php?ida=543 (6087 words)

	9825—Promoting Peace in Africa—6/23/98
		And one of the things that the, President Clinton's visit to Africa was attempting to do was to highlight precisely the more positive aspects of the African experience, in the Great Lakes and elsewhere, that have, has too frequently been neglected entirely by the media.
		In Africa you have today—and in that region as well as in southern Africa, and even parts of Western Africa—a number of countries that have made very significant economic reforms, that are doing much better economically today than they were previously.
		Even within the region in which we are speaking such countries as Uganda are really experiencing rather significant kinds of economic growth as a consequence of some very major reforms that the, and political stabilization that have been produced in recent years.
	www.commongroundradio.org /shows/98/9825.html (3787 words)

	Conference in Support of Democratic Opportunities in the African Great Lakes Region
		The development of citizenship and democracy in the countries of the region is a matter of concern for all their citizens; all the vital forces within their societies should therefore have the opportunity to participate.
		Ask the organizations of civil society in the countries of the Great Lakes Region to establish links of solidarity between themselves; the participants promise to support the organization of a regional meeting of civil society to be held on this issue as soon as possible.
		To send a delegation to the region and to be of assistance in the search for a solution that will lead to a cease-fire and to the implementation of new structures designed to promote the rule of law.
	www.ichrdd.ca /english/commdoc/publications/africa/GreatLakes.html (3226 words)

	African Great Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area, and Lake Tanganyika, the world's second largest in terms of volume as well as the second deepest.
		Lake Tanganyika and Lake Kivu both empty into the Congo River system, while Lake Malawi is drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi.
		While seen as a region with great potential after independence, the region has in recent years been marred by civil war and immense violence, leaving the region in great poverty from which only Kenya and Tanzania are largely exempt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Lakes_region_(Africa) (453 words)

	The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region of Africa
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region of Africa
		This region, recently one of the most unstable and tumultuous of the continent, has shown signs of movement toward peace in recent months.
		The Panel’s mandate includes formulating recommendations on measures the transitional government and other regional governments could take to develop and enhance their policies, legal framework and administrative capacity to ensure the resources of the DRC are used legally and on a fair commercial basis to the benefit of the Congolese people.
	www.state.gov /p/af/rls/rm/20245.htm (4505 words)

	Reconciliation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
		As we all know, the region has been marked by immeasurable tragedies, ones that resonate today especially in Burundi (where just yesterday the 26 members of the new Tutsi-Hutu transitional government set to start tomorrow were announced) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		Africa will be at the centre of the G8 discussions; the Great Lakes should certainly assume a predominant place.
		To conclude, I return to the where this talk began – transcendent values and the spiritual dimension of political affairs - for the solutions to the crisis in the Great Lakes lies in what are in essence spiritual concepts: peace, compassion, co-existence and reconciliation.
	www.david-kilgour.com /secstate/greatlakes.htm (1461 words)

	monuc.org: UN Security Council continues visit to Africa's troubled Great Lakes region ::: 23/11/2004
		It also met with the UN special envoy for the Great Lakes region, Ibrahim Fall, for a briefing on the situation in the troubled region of Africa.
		Since the region's states gained independence in the 1960s, and especially after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the Great Lakes has suffered endless cycles of civil and regional wars, at a cost of millions of lives.
		Another conference of Great Lakes leaders is scheduled to be held in June next year to see how the declaration can be implemented, and to lay the groundwork for a stronger pact between the region's states.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=4358 (386 words)

	Churches work together for Great Lakes region of Africa
		The Great Lakes Region Ecumenical Forum (GLEF) was instituted at a summit, attended by representatives of the churches and Christian councils from Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which was held in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 10-12 May 2006.
		In a communique on healing and reconciliation delegates urged participants to commit to refrain from participating in partisan politics and instead to be instruments of healing and reconciliation in the sub-region.
		He observed that the Great Lakes region has come to be known as the ark of Africa's conflicts because of the region's inordinate number of violent and deadly conflicts.
	www.ekklesia.co.uk /content/news_syndication/article_060526lakes.shtml (526 words)

	Patterns of State Collapse and Reconstruction in Central Africa: Reflections on the Crisis in the Great Lakes
		This is not the place to speculate about the long-term impact of the seismic aftershocks sweeping across the Great Lakes region and the neighboring states.
		A critical aspect of regional escalation lies in the presence in each country of a large number of refugees, most of them with searing memories of the violence they experienced -- or inflicted -- in their homelands.
		University of Antwerp: Center for the Study of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Dec. 1996.
	web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v1/3/2.htm (8159 words)

	Great Lakes Region of Africa - Burundi, by Rutagengwa Claude Shema
		The similarity of historical background in African Great Lakes countries (colonial matters, ethnicity, poverty) involves almost all countries in similar conflict.
		"GEOGRAPHY: Landlocked in central Africa, bounded by Rwanda in the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the vast Democratic Republic of Congo to the west.
		Burundi is situated in Central Africa, along Lake Tanganyika and shares borders with Rwanda, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo.
	www.author-me.com /nonfiction/greatlakesregion-burundi.htm (1667 words)

	TRANSCEND articles: War and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Great-Lakes Region of Africa
		The complexities of the conflicts in that region have been found largely incomprehensible or with not enough interest for the international community until more than 4 million victims were lost in the conflict (Boneza 2005).
		The Great Lakes Region of Africa’s main plagues are: poverty, political instability, armed conflicts and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
		In the last decade, countries in the Great Lakes Region were considered the epicentre of the epidemic because of the high prevalence rates and the socio-economic impact on the populations.
	www.transcend.org /t_database/printarticle.php?ida=608 (2561 words)

	APPG on the Great Lakes Region of Africa - NEPAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The New Economic Partnership for Africa is a continental development strategy, created at the July 2001 summit of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) and encompassing previous economic initiatives, the Millennium Partnership for the Africa Recovery Programme, and the OMEGA Plan.
		In Africa the African Union (formerly the Organisation of African Unity) has existed since independence, but regional and continental economic integration is an entirely new and uncharted area.
		The case for a more generous approach to Africa is so strong that the initiative has the potential to make a huge impact just from speaking out and demanding concerted action, especially in the priority areas.
	appggreatlakes.org /content/view/20/34 (1521 words)

	One Planet Many People
		The African Great Lakes region is composed of a variety of ecosystems with significant biodiversity.
		The region's relief is moderate and influenced by tectonic and volcanic activity.
		Governments in the region are attempting to lessen the impact through integrated conservation and development projects.
	grid2.cr.usgs.gov /greatlakes (158 words)

	UNICEF - Press centre - UN agency heads on unprecedented trip to the Great Lakes region
		Their unprecedented trip to Africa symbolizes the closer cooperation and coordination between the three agencies because of mutual, integrated issues in their mandates.
		“The Great Lakes is at a crossroads in 2006 with national elections in DRC due before the end of June, following elections in Burundi in August last year.
		All three agencies are under-funded for their work in the Great Lakes region, which is just emerging from a tempest of conflicts that forced millions to flee in the 1990s.
	www.unicef.org /media/media_31271.html (929 words)

	The Great Lakes Region of Africa: Divergent pasts, converging future
		This symposium will be an occasion for the participants and panelists to exchange their knowledge and comprehension of the events of the last decades as well as collaborating on ideas with the aim of working towards a better future.
		A field study in one of the countries of the Region will be organized to allow all the members of the organizing committee to consolidate all the information acquired on the Region.
		This year, the members of the organizing committee for the conference on the Great Lakes Region of Africa have the same ambition.
	www.glendon.yorku.ca /greatlakesofafrica/english/project.htm (646 words)

	espac.org - SUDAN AND THE REGION
		There is growing anxiety in eastern and central Africa that Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda, the Americans and their European friends are steering into open warfare with Sudan.
		This is in turn stimulating contrary alliances extending to the shifting frontline of the Great Lakes region.The ramifications are alarming diplomats [in Nairobi].
		Washington's attempts to destabilise the biggest country in Africa, a politically delicate country made up of several ethnic groups, hundreds of tribes and languages, and an Islamic-Christian fault line, can only but be viewed with incomprehension.
	www.espac.org /sudan_region/crisis_to_leadership.asp (1473 words)

	Press Releases: Great Lakes, Canada chairs Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first summit of heads of state of the Great Lakes region is scheduled for the summer of 2004.
		An international conference on peace, security, democracy and development in the Great Lakes region, first suggested in the early 1990s, was seen as a possible solution to the region's various conflicts and problems, including those resulting from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
		Because of the conflicts that raged in the region throughout the last decade, it was not possible to launch the conference.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/496ff38b1e64cbe9c1256df20052e91f (1173 words)

	SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION OF ARMED GROUPS IN AFRICA’S GREAT LAKES REGION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		“Recalling its resolutions and the statements by its President on the Great Lakes region of Africa and concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Burundi, and in particular resolutions 1649 and 1650 of 21 December 2005,
		In tackling the situation in the Great Lakes region, he said the international community must focus on conflict prevention and resolution, as well as post-conflict peacebuilding.
		Confidence-building among the region’s Governments could be accomplished through capacity-building in border management and monitoring; effective channels of communications and exchange of information among national authorities; and coordination of policies for demobilization, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, and refugee/internally displaced persons return and resettlement.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/sc8621.doc.htm (2095 words)

	USCCB - (MRS) - Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and In Kenya
		We found it impossible to consider the situation of the Great Lakes region's more than two million uprooted people in isolation from the conflicts which produced them.
		We recognize that, after the dreadful bloodletting, going back decades, involving the Great Lakes countries, reconciliation of opposing groups is crucial and of immediate need.
		We appeal to all the region's governments to put their people first, rejecting the notion that punishing an enemy takes precedence over protecting the citizenry.
	www.usccb.org /mrs/displaced.shtml (881 words)

	The Great Lakes Region of Africa: Divergent pasts, converging future
		The Great Lakes Region of Africa’s recent past has been one of volatility, whose complex nature the international community has found largely incomprehensible.
		In the ensuing years, the region experienced many violent inter-ethnic conflicts arising from the struggles for political and economic representation, which has resulted in internecine outcomes.
		Today, the countries of the Great Lakes Region are attempting to, not only bring ethnic groups within borders together, but also to find a convergence of interests between the countries themselves.
	www.glendon.yorku.ca /greatlakesofafrica/english/why.htm (382 words)

	M.B. Herald: Vol. 36, No. 1: Central Africa in turmoil
		As war with the Banyamulenge (Zairian Tutsis) was declared in the southern portion of the region, Bukavu began to be overrun by the very Zairian troops sent to protect it.
		The causes of this most recent crisis are complex, and are entwined in the region's history.
		But short of a lengthy investigation of the past, it is essential to understand events in the region since early 1994.
	old.mbconf.ca /mb/mbh3601/africa.htm (2405 words)

	APPG on the Great Lakes Region of Africa - Articles
		A selection of articles on the Great Lakes region, genocide prevention, and related issues.
		But as the second round of presidential elections approaches in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it strikes me that le Carré could have added yet one more candidate to his magnificent roll-call of those who have royally screwed the former Zaire: the naive souls who believe in democracy's capacity to heal all wounds.
		But is also the story of a trail of blood that leads directly to you: to your remote control, to your mobile phone, to your laptop and to your diamond necklace.
	appggreatlakes.org /content/blogcategory/28/36 (388 words)

	Central Africa - Great Lakes Region and Cameroon - IWGIA Yearbook May 2005
		There were signs of improving regional relations when the Congolese authorities signed separate joint verification mechanisms to improve border security with Rwanda and Uganda, while in August DRC, Rwanda and Uganda agreed to disarm groups operating within their territories within the year.
		Uganda has some of the most progressive policies related to land and poverty alleviation in the region, and this should also apply to indigenous Batwa, but implementation is still ineffective.
		The result is that Baka and Bagyeli have little say in the management of their lands, and in many cases are losing access to forests that they have been inhabiting for centuries.
	www.forestpeoples.org /documents/africa/iwgia_yrbk_c_af_2005_eng.shtml (4129 words)

	Press Statement by Security Council President on Great Lakes Region of Africa
		Ibrahima Fall, on the preparatory process of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.
		They reiterated their support to the principle of ownership and encouraged all the governments concerned to continue their efforts to bring about the effective implementation of its outcome.
		Members of the Security Council further welcomed the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes and commended the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations in all aspects related to the preparation of the Conference.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2004/sc8229.html (283 words)

	CPT in Africa - Great Lakes Region - CPTweb
		By doing so, he said, they keep the region destabilized, and thus open to the exploitation of its resources.
		To those in Congo trying to create change, one of the most discouraging aspects of their work is the feeling that their efforts happen in a vacuum, that no one outside Africa cares about what happens in eastern Congo.
		The challenge for North Americans, then, is to look beyond the mainstream media and make a commitment to educating themselves about the war and plunder in Congo, to bring what they learn before their friends, congregations and legislators, and to proclaim that the lives of baby Esther and her mother matter.
	www.cpt.org /africa/africa.php (1913 words)

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