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	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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
		The Congo territory was acquired formally by Leopold at the Conference of Berlin in 1885.
		The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (Clockwise from the west) Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (4460 words)

	Congo War
		President Joseph Kabila's cabinet and office staff was geographically and ethnically diverse but a significant amount of political influence remains in the hands of individuals (both inside and outside the Government) from the Luba Katangan ethnic group of the president's father, former president Laurent Kabila.
		On 30 June 2003 President Kabila announced the composition of the Government of National Unity and transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Congo's five-year war is officially over and a transitional government is trying to shepherd the vast African nation to elections next year, but the peace process has come to a halt, largely because of the continued presence of armed groups in the east.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/congo.htm (5297 words)

	List of Prime ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of Prime ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Heads of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		This is the list of the Heads of Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre) since independence :
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Prime_ministers_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (127 words)

	Congo
		President Laurent Kabila of Congo and the representatives of five nations involved in the conflict signed the accord on July 10, but the two main rebel groups did not sign because of a leadership dispute in the second rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy.
		Presided over by an independent mediator, such a dialogue may prove unkind to Kabila, but because Lusaka included no provision for implementing its outcome, the result is almost certain to leave his government in power.
		President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, whose government brokered the agreement, said bringing peace to one of Africa's prominent trouble spots is symbolically important to a continent where low-level civil wars continue in several countries.
	www.uvm.edu /~fgause/congo.htm (17490 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Republic of Congo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		The Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is tasked with moving from the state riven by the Second Congo War (1998-2002) to a government based upon a constitution agreed on by consensus.
		In 2001 President Laurent Kabila was assassinated and his son Joseph Kabila was named head of state.
		A transitional government was set up in July 2003; Joseph Kabila remains as president and now has four vice presidents representing the former government, former rebel groups, and the political opposition.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Republic_of_Congo (205 words)

	Congo (Kinshasa) (03/06)
		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 (4064 words)

	The Democratic Republic of Congo
		The country was formerly called Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zaire, then again Democratic Republic of Congo and had a history of colonialists and tyrants trying to volatile the country's vast natural resources.
		Laurent-Désiré Kabila declared himself president on May 17 and later re-named the country Democratic Republic of Congo, introduced a new flag (which was strangely enough similar to the one of the Congo Free State), a new national anthem and the Congolese Franc that replaced the heavily inflated Zaire.
		First President Kabila was extremely popular while he was fighting the follows of the Mobutu-regime, but then he started restrictions on civil liberties, free speech and political activity, angered investors, and lost much of his initial popularity.
	congobandit.tripod.com (5444 words)

	Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		The current head of state in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaïre, is the interim president, Joseph Kabila.
		Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (181 words)

	DRC Congo
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the new name for a nation that in 1997 saw the collapse of a corrupt, thirty-year dictatorship.
		The Federal Republic of Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		Congo's government, rebels and opposition parties signed a peace accord Tuesday to end four years of civil war and set up a transitional government to lead Africa's third-largest nation to its first democratic elections since independence in 1960.
	us-africa.tripod.com /zaire.html (3201 words)

	Congo (Kinshasa): Peace Update
		For additional commentary on the peace agreement, see http://allafrica.com/congo_kinshasa, and particularly the allafrica.com interviews with Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed an agreement on Tuesday to end to the conflict between their two countries.
		He said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was in touch with his counterparts in Kigali and the DRC capital, Kinshasa, on the new arrangement.
	www.africaaction.org /docs02/conk0208.htm (2215 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is nominally a highly centralized republic with extensive powers vested in President Joseph Kabila, head of a national Transitional Government, which was formed in June 2003 and is composed of former belligerent factions, including representatives from the former government, former rebel groups, civil society, and the political opposition.
		President Kabila came to power in 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent Desire Kabila.
		There are four vice presidents: two from the main former rebel groups, one from the political opposition, and one from Kabila's own political "family." The bicameral Parliament, as established under the Transitional Constitution, includes members from these groups, civil society and smaller, former rebel movements.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41597.htm (18208 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Letter of Intent, Memorandum on Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical ...
		Democratic Republic of the Congo and the IMF
		The document, which is the property of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is being made available on the IMF website by agreement with the member as a service to users of the IMF website.
		This policy led to a shortage of Congo francs, an appreciation of the exchange rate, and a larger-than-anticipated decline in the inflation rate, and contributed to the nonobservance of the performance criterion on the net foreign assets of the BCC at end-September 2003.
	www.imf.org /External/NP/LOI/2003/cod/03 (12699 words)

	Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Elections in the Democratic Republic of the 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.
	www.voyager.in /Elections_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (162 words)

	Congo (the Democratic Republic of) - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		In practice, however, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remained under the fragmented control of different armed forces.
		A plan for a power-sharing coalition government, to end the conflict since 1998 that has claimed an estimated three million lives, was agreed in December 2002 in Pretoria, South Africa, in peace talks between the Kinshasa government and rebel and unarmed opposition groups.
		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 (2262 words)

	Open Letters for Peace > Resources > Democratic Republic of the Congo > Events > July 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		The list comprises the president, five vice-presidents and 30 ministers, and includes members of the original DRC government, members of the opposition, representatives from rebel groups and Congolese citizens.
		The leader of the Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC) arrives in Kinshasa for swearing in.
		FAO reports that DR Congo, among other central African nations, is facing a severe food shortage.
	www.olfp.org /DRCJuly03.htm (769 words)

	Congos News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		To illustrate his point, he cited a meeting in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1974 that he attended along with members of the U.S. Congress, U.S. mayors...
		forthcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo are significant to the growth of democracy,...
		Congos Denis Sassou Nguesso (President of Rep. of Congo) News
	www.einnews.com /congos (1032 words)

	The Democratic Republic of Congo - Global Issues
		More evidence has emerged that when United States president Dwight Eisenhower met his national security advisers to talk about the situation in Congo two months after the June 1961 independence he said Lumumba, the country's first prime minister, should be eliminated.
		When Congolese President Laurent Kabila came to power in May 1997, toppling Marshall Mobutu, with the aid of Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Burundi and Eritrea, it was hoped that a revival would be seen in the region.
		Given the substantial increase in the price of coltan between late 1999 and late 2000, a period during which the world supply was decreasing while the demand was increasing, a kilo of coltan of average grade was estimated at $200.
	www.globalissues.org /Geopolitics/Africa/DRC.asp?p=1 (5459 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo: Children at war - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
		Seven years of almost continuous war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to the death of over three million people since 1998 alone, most of them civilian men, women and children.(1) Tens of thousands of women have been raped.
		Many of these elements, whose continuing presence in the Congo was the justification given by the Rwandan government for its military involvement in the DRC, have continued to recruit civilians in the DRC, including children.
		The UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) was created by the UN Security Council Resolution 1279 of 30 November 1999.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR620342003?open&of=ENG-364 (19734 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Democratic Republic of Congo: Crisis in Katanga Ignored
		Sources also say that Katanga is rarely mentioned even during meetings of foreign diplomats in Kinshasa, including those held by the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Belgium and South Africa.
		Northern Katanga is the birthplace of President Kabila's father, former President Laurent Kabila, who overthrew President Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.
		As Stearns sees it, the army’s November 2005 operation in Katanga may be the result of new pressures on Kabila, and with national elections due to take place in 2006, Congo’s president may want to be able to campaign for votes in his home region.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2529/1 (2283 words)

	URGENT NEED TO SOLIDIFY PEACE PROCESSES IN BURUNDI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, SAY SPEAKERS IN SECURITY COUNCIL
		’s President, Paul Kagami, had rejected the peace efforts and made a declaration of war, using as a pretext the pursuit of the negative forces in the area. Since 1999, the
		, the mission was impressed by the “major strides” that have been made in favour of peace under the leadership of the President of the Transitional Government. It welcomes the spirit of reconciliation that has guided the process thus far.
		should withdraw any forces in the Democratic Republic and exercise restraint in its actions and pronouncements. The threat of the ex-FAR also needed to be addressed. In that regard, he suggested the development of a more effective strategy to disarm such groups.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2004/sc8264.doc.htm (3150 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Executive branch
		Chief of state includes the name and title of the titular leader of the country who represents the state at official and ceremonial functions but may not be involved with the day-to-day activities of the government.
		elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms; election last held 11 November and 18 November 2001 (next to be held NA 2006); chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) nominated by the president; deputy prime ministers nominated by the prime minister
		elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 16 December 2001 (next to be held NA November 2006); prime minister appointed by the president from a list of candidates nominated by the National Assembly
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2077.html (12705 words)

	PRESS CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO REPORT
		PRESS CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO REPORT
		Almost all belligerents in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were benefiting in one way or another, with the Congolese people as the only losers, correspondents were told this morning at a Headquarters press conference.
		Ba-N’Daw said the Panel’s role had been to respond to its mandate, not to discuss the balance of power.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2001/DRCPressCfc.doc.htm (325 words)

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