How To Use Congo In A Sentence
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The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield.
The Guardian World News
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How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Nun's Story (1959)- Devout, kindhearted Belgian girl Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn) takes vows and becomes Sister Luke, a nun who achieves her dream of working in the Belgian Congo and ministering to the infirm, yet not without difficulties of conscience.
John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith
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She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.
The Curious Book of Birds
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DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "HISTORY OF CONGO": The short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources.
CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006
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A still-larger dam, the Grand Inga Dam, has been proposed for completion between 2020 and 2025 in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Congo River: Its output could reach 39 gigawatts of power.
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It slopes southwest from the watershed between the Nile and Congo rivers, part of an ancient peneplain interrupted by mostly granitic inselbergs, threaded by gallery forests, with large marshland depressions.
Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Geographynote: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile
Burundi
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Kisangani - The rising sun is already burning a brilliant path across the muddy vastness of the mighty Congo river as the group of busy women bustle around the night's catch.
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Reinvestigation of dioptase-plancheite pseudomorphs after calcite from the Tantara copper deposit Katanga, Republique du Congo.
OpEdNews - Diary: Humanitarian Crisis in Gorilla Habitat
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The Park consists of two geomorphic units: rift valley volcanic mountains and Congo basin low highlands.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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The International Criminal Court has agreed to pursue the war crimes trial of Congo's former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba.
Congo's Former VP Bemba War Crimes Trial Gets Go Ahead
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It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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It is the largest river between the great Niger and Congo rivers, and its watershed drains the whole of Gabon.
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Four endemic species of shrew are found only in these forests; the mountain shrew (Sylvisorex oriundus, VU), African foggy shrew (Crocidura caliginea, CR), Congo shrew (C. congobelgica, VU), and the fuscous shrew (C. polia, CR).
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
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The mine, in Katanga Province, has been fraught with problems since early 2009, when Congo's government said Freeport had failed to meet the requirements of its mining-license review.
Congo Reaches Long-Awaited Deal With Freeport
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The ambitious architecture student was furious when the Congo government closed a university in the capital Kinshasa.
The Sun
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Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed memoranda of understanding to "harmonise" transport and mining development between the two countries.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Roy Danforth and Paul Noren are Christian missionaries who have set up a tropical fruit preserve in the Ubangi region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Fruit Hunters
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Petridis covers in some detail Olbrechts's morphological approach to the study of art, as developed in his Congo art book.
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The companies went on to secure licences to explore for oil in Congo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Congo red staining was resistant to permanganate pretreatment.
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Murwanashyaka said he suspected local Congo militias, known as the Rasta, were to blame for the massacre.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Français · Congo (RDC): Un projet de loi américain pour contrôler les compagnies minières
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC
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Anyway, if you want to spend some time in a warm, moist climate, I would recommend a trip to the Congo Basin.
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“There is no excuse for missing to pay salaries to soldiers in lawless eastern Congo for six months” said Sekombo.
Global Voices in English » Disabled Congolese Find Ways to Thrive
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The western section in the Congo basin is connected to it by a narrow corridor.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Whereas Congo Square rocked and infused soul into the sweaty bodies that came every Sunday afternoon, Jackson Square squelched the human spirit and sometimes took away the life of our ancestral people.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Yet because most of the victims were Kurds, Shiites, marsh Arabs, Iranians and Kuwaitis, the question was why it should matter to the West—anymore than, say, the butcheries in the Congo matter.
Tyranny and Indifference
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The rioters blame the 10,800-strong UN force in Congo for failing to stop Wednesday's capture of the eastern border city of Bukavu by renegade commanders once allied with neighbouring Rwanda.
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The bigger the transparent zone around the colony plates containing Congored, the higher activity of ? ? - glucanase.
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SF/F congoers know that I do panels about rape, sexual assault, and sexual politics and problems in fandom - in the community education and prevention branch of BARCC, we're encouraged to identify a community to work with, and fandom is one of mine.
Tew's Day!
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At 7: 50 p.m., Koffi Koffiento shakes you awake with a fine blend of rumba, zouk and salsa, Congolese style..
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(Soundbite of water flowing) QUIST-ARCTON: Present-day Kisangani used to be colonial Stanleyville, named after the American journalist and adventurer who, along with Livingstone, earned fame by finding the source of the Congo River near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation
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The CKHCI doesn't account for all of the "Rasta" models smuggled in from The Congo.
No Getting Around It: Cycling and Religion Clash Again
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The great breadth and the shallows near either jaw prevent the rain-floods being perceptible unless instruments are used, and "hydrometry," still in an imperfect state, was little to be depended upon in the days when European ideas concerning the Congo River were formed.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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Officials from both countries participated in a signing ceremony in the Congolese city of Kananga late Monday.
Congo, India to Build Hydro Plant
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It also appealed to the Congolese people "to receive the results with the same spirit of civic responsibility.
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Del port. macaco, voz del Congo, que designa una especie de mona.
Archive 2006-08-01
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The report in the Times names the Aka Pygmies, a hunter-gatherer tribe from the northern Congo, as the best fathers.
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I made her a few evening visits, and we talked love affairs over muffins and a cup of excellent congou.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828
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Overall, Congo has over half the world's cobalt, one-third of its diamonds, and three-fourths of its vital columbite-tantalite or "coltan," essential for computer chips, circuit boards, mobile phones, laptops, and other electronic devices.
Printing: Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance:" Part II
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Out there food is commonly known as "skoff," just as "chop" is the equivalent in the Congo.
An African Adventure
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Congo jazz and soukous, played on a guitar, are popular varieties for such dances.
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In this film she returns to Congo for the first time to be reunited with her parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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(There are only so many functions where the burlap totes emblazoned with the word "FEED" seemed appropriate, even if Ms. Bush herself wore them to the dressiest galas and balls.) “All the patterns that you see are hand-dyed fabrics that have been dyed in Africa by women in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo],” said Ms. Bush, pointing to the rack of colorful, nipped-waist dresses dyed in a more sophisticated version of tie dye.
Meet Lauren Pierce: 'Incognito' Bush Niece Debuts New Clothing Line
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If you have not read the Congo Columns, autocannibalism occurs when flesh is cut from living victims and they are forced to eat it.
Jay Blumenkopf: What's to Win in Afghanistan?
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Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press CONGO COMBAT DRILLS: Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's soldiers showed off their training during a mock attack Thursday at their Tebero, Congo, base.
Today's Photos: Nov. 6
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Gilbert Malemba N’Sakila, a former law-school dean in Lubumbashi, expressed similar doubts: The Chinese are not even making use of Congolese talent.
The Next Empire
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Two at risk are great apes found only in Congo - eastern lowland gorillas and bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees.
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The government on Thursday gave foreign militants until the end of the month to leave Congo, warning that a joint U. N.-government military offensive would drive any remaining fighters from the war-ravaged Central African nation.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The original strategy for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was to concentrate vaccination in three provinces.
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It included all those who shared the pool this week, from his closest pursuers to the freestyler from the Congo who didn't know how to get up on the start blocks and had been training in a hotel pool back home.
Lopresti: Golden boy Phelps is the center of USA's attention
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Sixty to 70% of the coltan exported from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations reported in 2002, has been mined "under the direct surveillance" of the Rwandan army.
Blair, Conflict Diamonds & The Rape of The Congo
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Congo, Republic of theFrench (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Languages
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Alex writes about the Jew of Katanga; Moïse Katumbi Katebe Chapwe, a multimillionaire, is the powerful governor of the Province of Katanga, one of the mineral-rich Wild West zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Global Voices in English » Video: Caring about Congo
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Some of Nepad's major projects still in the pipeline include a fibre optic submarine cable on the East Coast to connect Durban and Djibouti and the Inga III project in the Congo.
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The hippopotamus, for example, has declined by 95 percent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1994, when 30,000 roamed wild.
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The pending bills in the Senate and House would force companies to determine and disclose whether coltan, tin, gold, and wolframite used in their products originated in war-torn areas of the Congo, information that the U.S. government would then make public.
Human Rights First: Controlling enablers in the conflict mineral trade
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What happens in Congo does not cause the slightest stir in the boardrooms of London and New York.
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& singing mostly in his native 'Lingala', Niwel performs a range of music that stretches from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music from the 1930s & 40s to modern Jazz.
Irish Blogs
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Manuel Industries produces guitars, violins, tabalas, mridangams and Congo drums and deals in keyboards and other imported musical instruments.
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Along the border between the Guineo-Congolian zone and this ecoregion, Gilbertiodendron dewevrei, a common rain forest evergreen forms extensive, mono-dominant stands in well-drained red-clay soils with high soil water capacity in the Ubangi and Ule regions.
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
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In 2002, Nkunda "brutally suppressed a mutiny in Kisangani, a key trading town formerly known as Stanleyville that sits on a broad bend in the Congo River.
Bruce Wilson: Rick Warren's African Allies Tied To Massacres, Sex-Slavery, Forced Labor, Concentration Camps
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Last year he became caught up in fighting in the Congo but escaped unhurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics.
African Gothic
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The historical links between Congolese and Afro Cuban music are well documented and these two guitarists are keen to keep alive the great traditions; they are augmented tonight by a full band line-up.
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Congo has less than 300 miles of tarmac roads outside its main cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most Burkinabe also speak languages of the Gur group within the large Niger-Congo family of languages.
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On the blue-gray waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head.
As Go the Hippos …
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Zaire was forced to acknowledge the authority of the Congolese state.
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Henry Tanner, a New York Times correspondent of two generations ago, caught the flavor of this in a dispatch he sent from the Congo in 1961.
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Luapula to the source of the Lualaba, the eastern and southern boundary of the prefecture is the Congo-Rhodesian frontier.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
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Congolese are quick to point out that despite those two invasions, Rwandan forces never succeeded in disarming the rebels and insist that Rwanda is only after Congo's mineral wealth.
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The Kingdom of Kongo which is now the regions of Congo and Angola the language was Bantu and it declined after the explorations and the invasion of the Portuguese.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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A suggested sequence to include all the treatment methods in the lessons is to start with onions (no treatment) and proceed with greens such as tampala, mustard or bok choy (blanching) and a fruit like bananas (anti-oxidant coating), then mangos or apricots (sulfuring) and finish with beef or a lean fish like cod, tilapia or congo (salting).
Chapter 6
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Congolese rulers
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But cell phones also include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo saw the biggest increase; GHI rose by more than 65%.
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Congo has less than 300 miles of tarmac roads outside its main cities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Performed by the Chroma chamber orchestra on instruments as diverse as the guitar and celesta, the music is partly influenced by ethnographical recordings made in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.
Pilgrimage Into a Dark Night of the Soul
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On Sunday, before the fighting spread, the city formerly known as Stanleyville was a nervous microcosm of the divided rebel movement and its feuding patrons: Wamba was holed up in a downtown hotel under the protection of Ugandan troops, while Rwandan soldiers and their Congolese rebel allies patrolled the rest of the town.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters CONGO CASUALTY: Refugees walked past the body of a Congolese government soldier on a road near Kibati, Congo, Wednesday.
Today's Photos: Nov. 12
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Rebel forces loyal to renegade leader Laurent Nkundu have made serious inroads into territory previously held by the Congolese army of President Joseph Kabila around the eastern town of Goma.
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African nations have little track record of success in forcing out dictators or ending bloodshed -- witness the reignition of war in eastern Congo near the Rwandan border in recent weeks.
Turning Against Comrade Bob
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Rose congou tea, Morning temperature 38 balmy degrees, even when I had the dog out at sunrise.
It's the little things betray
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Now the company is exporting those ideas to other parts of the world - from Indonesia to the Congo.
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After showing the videos, he talks animatedly in a mixture of French and another Congolese language, Lingala, which a sprinkling of those in the audience know, while an assistant intermittently translates a few sentences into Swahili.
The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
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But, hey, the Team might interpret this differently – maybe the brown color is a teleconnection with the Congo or Antarctica, you never know.
Dulan Satellite Photo « Climate Audit
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Part world, part electornia, part undescribable, Congo-natives Konono No. 1 continue their NYC weekend at le Poisson Rouge, performing with their a variety of fascinating instruments, alongside electro/hip hop duo Javelin and others.
Zara Golden: Sign Up To Cover Concerts This Week: Wolf Parade, Caribou, Siren Music Festival, Konono No.1
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Performed by the Chroma chamber orchestra on instruments as diverse as the guitar and celesta, the music is partly influenced by ethnographical recordings made in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.
Pilgrimage Into a Dark Night of the Soul
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Français · Congo (RDC): Des handicapés sur le chemin de la réussite
Global Voices in English » Disabled Congolese Find Ways to Thrive
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The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Consider by comparison scholarship on the hecatomb in Congo.
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For example: rose congou is achieved by layering rose petals among black China tea.
Archive 2009-06-01
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We listened in stunned silence as she implored faith communities and faith leaders to become involved to end what she has termed "femicide" in the Congo.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Update on funny BBC mistake: "cabbie" is an IT expert from the Congo
Boing Boing: May 14, 2006 - May 20, 2006 Archives
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All tenements are located in North Kivu Province of the east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo and lie within in one of the world's principal gold and tin metallogenic provinces.
Reuters: Press Release
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The Congolese singer Franco, backed by the all-powerful jazz orchestra of Kinshasa, unleashes irresistible soukous to commemorate a seventh wedding anniversary.
Readers recommend songs about anniversaries: The results
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There are factual inaccuracies, too, such as stating that Ignace Murwanashyaka, a rebel leader, was involved in the Rwandan genocide he was not and suggesting that another rebel, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was involved in the 1998 rebellion led by the Congolese Rally for Democracy.
Digging for the Truth About a Dirty Trade
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If leading media analysts have rightly been calling attention to the way that rape is conceptualized and written about in Congo, I -- as a humanitarian aid worker who has in the past managed programs to combat sexual violence in West Africa -- hope that we can also start to have some serious, constructively critical conversations about the international programs that are being implemented on behalf of rape survivors.
Mark Canavera: Dusty Broom Closets in Congo: Rethinking Programming to Combat Sexual Violence
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Violent death, dislocation, and general social breakdown were among the immediate problems faced by the Congolese.
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Wearing a hazmat suit to guard against possible infection, she collects tissue samples from a gorilla that died of Ebola virus in the Congo.
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Congo, Democratic Republic of theFrench (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Languages
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DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "HISTORY OF CONGO": A short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources, and that's why - one of the reasons why so much violence has taken place in that country.
CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006
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Congo's minister of culture, Esdras Kambale, called Makeba a role model for all Africans.
China Confidential
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Meaning, I guess, we're supposed to concede the point that keeping armed forces in Iraq is better than some imagined, hypothetical scenario where all hell breaks loose the second our forces leave, the country dissolves into sectarian warfare (worse that the civil strife that has already occurred,) and some kind of apocalyptical genocide breaks out (the kind of genocide we care about, not the Darfur or Congo kind.)
Allison Kilkenny: Iraq and Afghanistan: Consider the Alternative
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Some well-known brands of black tea are _China congou_, or _English breakfast_, _Formosa_, _oolong_, and the various
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals
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Uganda has bought at least eight fighter jets and other military hardware valued at $744 million from Russia as it prepares to start oil production in the Lake Albert region, along its border with restive eastern Congo, government officials said.
What's News
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Two recently brokered peace agreements in Africa, in Sudan and the Congo, are extremely tenuous.
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The news contrasts sharply with recent, more detailed surveys for another gorilla subspecies, the eastern mountain gorilla, which is found mainly on the Virunga Mountains in the Congo and Uganda.
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A large epidemic occurred in Kikwit, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1995 with 315 cases, 250 of whom died.
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The presence of abnormal subepithelial collagen deposition was confirmed by Masson trichrome stain; staining for amyloid with Congo red was negative.
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The first volume concentrated on eight West African countries, but this second selection is an entirely Congolese mixture of rumba roots and early soukous.
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Software Description: About Congo African Grey, The smart Congo Greys will decorate your desktop.
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The minerals in question—cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold and wolframite—are widely used in consumer electronics and other products, although Congo supplies no more than 20% of global demand for these raw materials.
Can Annual Reports Save Lives?
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Papa Noel grew up in the Congo, listening to Cuban records on his mother's phonograph.
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They would rather inflame the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo than forgive African debt.
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Instead, in the Kabila interludes (first the elder, and now the hereditary son), Congo remains the site of a second Scramble for Africa.
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But of course peaceful, clockwork, wealthy Holland, with its canals and bicycle paths, is a long way from Congo, where the national government barely functions, people speak several hundred languages, and a majority of the population is functionally illiterate and has no electricity, much less a radio or TV.
The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
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This year, PSI will deliver its 120 millionth mosquito net, and we are set to distribute an additional nine million nets in a campaign planned for the Democratic Republic of Congo later this year.
Karl Hofmann: World Malaria Day: Our Work Is Not Over
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How did Mark Twain end up fighting against forced labor in the Belgian Congo?
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All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
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The South African and the Democratic Republic of Congo flags fly side-by-side in an open space where a band is strumming rumba tunes, getting ready to rock the crowd seated under green umbrellas.
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An epidemic of pneumonic plague has hit the Congo among diamond miners recently.
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Plus de 95% des congolais n 'ont pas voté. c' est une réalité que le régime brutal et absurde de brazza doit reconnaitre.
Global Voices in English » Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election
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Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
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The UN refugee agency reports thousands of Congolese refugees have fled to Uganda and Rwanda in the past few days seeking safety from escalating fighting in North Kivu province.
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HO · may be an important factor to cause photochemical decolorization of congo red.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria sold the guns to rebels in Congo, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers and the Hutu militia, which was responsible for the Rwandan genocide.
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How can a non-executive be expected to fathom the depths of Congolese mining rights?
Times, Sunday Times
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Murdock,50 makes the case that matriliny as the basis of social relations and organization dates to the period before proto-Bantu to the still-earlier periods of Niger-Congo history. 51
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Modest EU missions have been sent to Macedonia, Bosnia and the Congo.
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A still-larger dam, the Grand Inga Dam, has been proposed for completion between 2020 and 2025 in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Congo River: Its output could reach 39 gigawatts of power.
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The guerrilla army has been fighting since 1975 for independence for Cabinda, which is wedged between Zaire and Congo and is rich in petroleum and other natural resources.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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On April 23rd, Republican senator Sam Brownback introduced the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009, cosponsored by senators Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin, which would require American companies mining coltan, cassiterite, and wolframite to report annually to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency that regulates American financial markets, to disclose the country of origin of the minerals to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Global Voices in English » New bill to increase oversight of American mining companies in DRC
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The first is massive, typically banded, botryoidal to stalactitic malachite from the great copper belt in the Shaba region, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Four of the major branches of the Niger-Congo language are spoken among Ivoirians, including the Kwa, Atlantic, Mande, and Voltaic.
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It also refers to the "conk" style in which tightly curled hair is straightened using the chemical congolene (or should it be conkolene, according to Lionel Boyd) and then combed out.
John Lee Hooker Lyrics
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The companies went on to secure licences to explore for oil in Congo.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the new "Assume Crash Position," only the second studio album of Konono No. 1's 30-year career, the Congolese nonet tries a few variations on the sound that became a global cult sensation.
Konono No. 1 brings sounds of trance on junkyard instruments to Black Cat
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Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo -- women who soldier on despite overwhelming odds that make staying alive a gau ...
Georgianne Nienaber: Congo: Midwives Transform Trash Into Hope
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Enter the ways of the Kingdom of Kongo, now occupied by the countries of Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Or will you feel your way along the Congo in a tropical helmet, with six holes in the top of it, until you come out again at Kamerun or thereabouts?
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
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On Boing Boing Gadgets, this wrenching video in which Eve Ensler explains that Congolese militias use rape to enforce discipline among a slave workforce that mines columbite-tantalite ore, a common raw material for many devices.
Boing Boing
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Last Thursday, in a speech to the Corporate Council on Africa, Bush outlined a broad-brush agenda on Africa, including an end to Congo's war.
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The families Sirenidae, Necturidae (mud puppy), and Amphiumidae (congo eels) occur only in the southeastern United States.
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It bore some resemblance to the adansonia figured in the account of Captain Tuckey's expedition to the Congo.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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I think all true junglists should probably know that the Congo Natty 2004 World Tour will be touching down at Rainbow-Ites this Friday, July 2.
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War has raged through the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than a decade -- it has been called the deadliest conflict since World ... var news_amount = 4;
Eve Ensler: Ten Radical Acts for Congo in the New Year
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Chad , the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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This week another group of repatriates left town near the border with Congo Brazzaville.
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It is located on the Rwandan side of a mountain range that straddles the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.
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In this shot of a young man stealing the Belgian king's ceremonial sword during independence celebrations in the Belgian Congo, many of the professional photographers were positioned in front of the king, to capture his approach.
Famous Frames And Their Facts
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Mr. Kabila a encore affirme que le Rwanda va extrader Laurent Nkunda et que celui-ci fera face a la justice congolaise.
Global Voices in English » D.R. of Congo: Furor Over Kabila’s New York Times Interview
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Recognizing that U.S. foreign assistance does not fund abortion services, he states flatly that, "Support for contraception does not imply or require support for abortion," and goes on say that, "... women in Congo have enough home-grown problems without importing irrelevant, Western controversies.
Robert Walker: "Pro-Family Planning" Republicans?
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As one of the bloggers who has been given credit for starting the blogswarm on the Congo rape epidemic, and as someone who has always, always questioned the way Africa has been portrayed as this "netherworld" of our worst nightmares or our most victimized victims see Africa: This Year's Entertainment and Decolonizing Feminism posts, I take these concerns very seriously.
Why I Will Not Disavow the "Feminist" Label
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One dramatic example of spotlighting a crisis occurred when mountain gorillas were found slaughtered in Congo's war-torn wilderness.
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(Soundbite of water flowing) QUIST-ARCTON: Present-day Kisangani used to be colonial Stanleyville, named after the American journalist and adventurer who, along with Livingstone, earned fame by finding the source of the Congo River, near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation
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This part of the plateau is the southern side of the rim of the Congo basin; and it is at the bottom of the basin (a basin open to the west where the Congo River flows into the Atlantic Ocean) that one finds the lands which are steamy, unhealthy and unsuited to permanent white settlement.
Africa South of the Sahara
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But both regimes are big favorites of the United States, and in choosing whom to indict, in Congo and elsewhere, the ICC has trod carefully to avoid antagonizing the U.S.
The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
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Assam in the morning and rose congou in the afternoon?
Taking umbrage
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Also, rosewater Turkish delight with rose congou tea is very nice.
Shut up. you'll be stone dead in a minute.
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Five million people have died in the past five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and yet there has been no imposition of sanctions on the various factions and precious little in the way of condemnation either.
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Over the last 30 years, this insect has evolved into a major pest threat in the Congo Basin for crops such as yam, cocoyam, and particularly cassava.
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European countries and others should enact legislation that requires companies to disclose whether their products contain minerals from the Congo, she proposed.
Evelyn Leopold: UN Council Told to Act Against Rapists in Congo
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Bemba was formerly vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Congo's Former VP Bemba War Crimes Trial Gets Go Ahead
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In this film she returns to Congo for the first time to be reunited with her parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus it may have been gold, or silver, or copper, or a species of beautiful shells called cowries, or even a sort of mat called makutes, as in Congo; or ingots of iron, as in Senegal; or Negro slaves, as on the Guinea
The Science of Right
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That's the Newt who loves Israel and takes Shedon Adelson's Jewish contributions to support his race to the White House or the Newt who wrote so lovingly about education in the Belgian Congo.
Mark Axelrod: "Spanish Is a Language of the Ghetto"; or, Newt y Yo
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He said the Congolese were especially in need of foodstuffs such as maize meal, maize, goats and chickens.
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This question, which one hears almost everywhere, was addressed most powerfully by the Congolese lawyer I met in Lubumbashi.
The Next Empire
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There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - BSG at the UN
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Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror
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Like the idea of the Creator, the reasons for their prevalence across the region is rooted in supple yet enduring epistemologies deriving from early Niger-Congo history.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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They traveled to the DRC last month and are trying to draw attention to what they call the intense suffering of the Congolese people.
Actor, Activist Ben Affleck Urges US to Help DRC
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The fantastically-named Congo forest mouse Deomys ferrugineus (sometimes called the Link mouse) is another similar long-footed form of uncertain phylogenetic position.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Mining of the valuable mineral in eastern Congo has been the source of much conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nzanga Mobutu stared out over the chocolate-brown sweep of the Congo river, and remembered his father.
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Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters CONGO CHILDREN: Girls displaced by war stood at a makeshift camp near Goma, Congo, Wednesday.
Today's Photos: Feb. 11
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CONGO: The U.N. has an 18,400-strong mission operating in Congo, its largest in the world.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Congolese are quick to point out that despite those two invasions, Rwandan forces never succeeded in disarming the rebels and insist that Rwanda is only after Congo's mineral wealth.
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Tshisekedi returned to Congo in December after being treated for three years for an unspecified ailment in South Africa and Belgium, Congo's former colonizer.
Fears of violence in Congo elections
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Quel projet ou proposition l'opposition congolaise a t 'elle soumis au peuple? rien sauf le boycott! qui n'est rien d'autre qu'une ouverture à Sassou pour gagner.
Global Voices in English » Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election
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Denbighshire Council has launched an appeal to restore a statue of HM Stanley in Kinshasa in the Congo.
Archive 2008-09-01
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Zaire, as the Congo was rechristened, had its natural resources plundered to fund his passion for flashy cars and chartered Concorde flights - this at a time when the country's average annual income was below $120.
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Australia has resettled refugees from conflicts in Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
Immigrant Leaders Call for Talks After Violence in Australian City
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Playing electric & acoustic guitars & singing mostly in his native 'Lingala', Niwel performs a range of music that stretches from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music from the 1930s &
Irish Blogs
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The most popular sound is rumba music from the Congo, but there is an appreciation of the traditional tribal songs and sounds.
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For the monolingual among you, this translates as "From Portugese macaco, Congolese term meaning monkey.
Archive 2006-08-01
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The Congo has almost unparalleled mineral riches, including gold, uranium, the world's biggest industrial diamond deposits, and 80 percent of world reserves in a mineral called coltan, which is crucial to the manufacture of mobile telephones.
Diamond in the Rough
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Chicambo, Loango, and the Quillu (Kwillu) stream, the latter breaking through the coast range, disemboguing near Loango Bay, and reported to be connected with the great Congo.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Why purchase these minerals from the Congo in the first place?
More Revelations about the Conflict Materials in your Cell Phone
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The region has been the scene of some of the worst atrocities in the five-year-old civil war in Congo.
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She recalled her gunboat and as a concession to obtain peace, was permitted to acquire some territory in the French Congo country.
History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
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He was accused in a report of plundering the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mineral resources, while the Ugandan army was involved in the five-year Congolese war.
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The biggest deposits of the metal ore in the world are to be found in the eastern Congo.
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Congo has diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, cassiterite (tin ore) and coltan as well as timber, coffee and oil, little of which has benefited the Congolese, since the brutal rule of Belgium during colonial times.
Evelyn Leopold: Congo Massacres: First Revenge, Then Blood Money
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Here's a related article about another possible undiscovered ape - this one in the Congo.
