Prime Minister Matata Ponyo has inaugurated the new one-stop agency for entrepreneurs who want to start a new business. The head of the new agency said that its offices across the country will streamline the process of creating a new business, which used to take months, to a maximum of 3 business days.

South African champions Orlando Pirates have advanced to the group stage of the Orange CAF Champions League for the first time since 2006. The Buccaneers, winners of the premier continental club championship in 1995 achieved the feat at the expense of TP Mazembe of DR Congo.

DR Congo giants TP Mazembe look like a team that will yet again pose a threat in this year's African Champions League. The four-time African club champions have recruited one Ugandan, a Zambian, five Ghanaian and three Malian players as they aim to conquer the continent again this year.

The Security Council today authorized the deployment of an intervention brigade within the current United Nations peacekeeping operation in DR Congo. The intervention brigade will carry out targeted offensive operations, with or without the Congolese national army, against armed groups that threaten peace in the eastern part of DRC.

After years of fleeing justice, Bosco Ntaganda finally appeared before the ICC to start a lengthy process to decide whether to press war crime charges against him. Ntaganda made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

• • Bosco Ntaganda in the International Criminal Court's custody
• • Warlord Bosco Ntaganda Turns Himself In at US Embassy in Rwanda
• • Regional Leaders Sign DR Congo Peace Deal
• • DR Congo wants to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
• • DR Congo Out of Africa Cup of Nations After Draw With Mali
• • DR Congo Draw Against Niger at Africa Cup of Nations


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3. • Song, Video Shed Light on Congo War - Global Voices Online
4. • Beyond carbon storage: the Congo Basin forest as rainmaker - Forests Blog, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)
5. • Chinese mining industry contributes to abuses in Democratic Republic of the ... - Amnesty International
6. • A move toward peace in Congo - Politico
7. • Ahly set to sign Congo teenager - StarAfrica.com
8. • Congo atrocities just the cost of doing business? - FinalCall.com News

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4. • Al-Qaida-linked fighters attack UN base in Somalia
5. • Zimbabwe's president goes back to court on polls
6. • 5 Somalis, 7 militants die in attack on UN office
7. • Bomb blasts, gunmen attack UN office in Mogadishu
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4. • Obama calls for reducing nuclear stockpiles
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6. • Witnessing sniper's 'kill shot' in Syria
7. • Sidewalks exploding in London
8. • 'Standing Man' inspires Turks

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6. • VIDEO: GB slump to Czech EuroBasket defeat
7. • Jackson expects Hearts job losses
8. • VIDEO: Wozniacki ousts Robson at Eastbourne

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1. • Microsoft pulls a 180, rescinds Xbox One connection ... - CNET
2. • Google challenges secret court over gag order - Christian Science Monitor
3. • Microsoft breaks bug-bounty virginity in $100000 contest - Register
4. • Apple TV Update Adds HBO GO, ESPN, and More - TidBITS
5. • Lytro Releases iOS App, Adds Wi-Fi to Camera - PC Magazine
6. • Microsoft-Nokia Advanced Talks Recently Broke Down - Wall Street Journal- India
7. • Good riddance Google Reader: Feedly throws switch on alternate RSS service - Computerworld
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