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DR Congo Troops 'Killed Civilians' After Vote By Correspondents * - IPS/Al Jazeera DOHA - Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been responsible for the deaths of at least 24 people since President Joseph Kabila's re-election was announced on Dec. 9, Human Rights Watch says. MORE >>
DR CONGO Shooting in Kinshasa after Election Results Released By Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA - Fears of violent demonstrations against the provisional results of the presidential elections - released on Dec. 9 by the electoral commission - have given way to terror in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has crackled with the sound of gunshots and the firing of tear gas canisters since Friday afternoon. MORE >>
HEALTH-DR CONGO Konzo Still Leaving Women and Children Paralysed By Anselm Nkinsi KINSHASA - Nadine Mbwol suffers from konzo, an epidemic paralytic disease that affects the lower body. "I lost my marriage because of this disability," she says sadly. MORE >>
DR CONGO Election Promises of Peace and Security By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman KIKWIT, DR Congo - The 11 candidates contesting presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo all pledge to improve peace and security in the country - promises received with varying degrees of scepticism by Congolese voters. MORE >>
DR CONGO No Real Programme Behind Campaign Promises By Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA - "In truth, none of the candidates and none of the parties have a programme for society," asserts Mastaki Mushosi, one of the leaders of the National Union of Catholic School Teachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. MORE >>
OP-ED Rwandan Refugees Fear Cessation Clause By Robyn Leslie JOHANNESBURG - They should be wary of each other. The historical conflict between their ethnicities has resulted in Africa’s largest genocide. MORE >>
DR CONGO Rehabilitating Former Child Soldiers Who "Liked" Killing By Kristin Palitza BUKAVU, DR Congo - Murhula’s* life changed forever when he was nine years old. It was the year that he learned to kill, torture and rape. MORE >>
AFRICA Regulating the Rush for Land By Jessica McDiarmid FREETOWN - The adoption of international guidelines to regulate so-called land grabs has been pushed to next year after negotiators failed to agree on conditions for large-scale land investments and enforcement. MORE >>
DR CONGO Women Candidates Needed By Badylon K. Bakiman KINSHASA - Women make up just 12 percent of the roughly 18,000 candidates who will stand for election to parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nov. 28 elections. MORE >>
DR CONGO No Hope for Free and Fair Elections By Zukiswa Zimela JOHANNESBURG - With six weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society organisations say the elections will not be fair, as many doubt the ability of the country’s electoral authorities to ensure transparency. MORE >>
DR CONGO No End to Mass Rapes: "It’s a Miserable Life" By Kristin Palitza BUKAVU, DR Congo - Angeline Mwarusena, 61, sits on a small wooden bench in front of her hut, head bent, shoulders slumped. Her voice is barely audible. Four years ago, three soldiers from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) entered her home, hit her and raped her repeatedly. One after the other. MORE >>
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