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| New Law Enhances US Efforts to Assist, Provide Funds to Congo | |
US Department of State - January 2, 2007 | |
 | At least $52 million annually for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 will be provided to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under legislation signed December 22 by President Bush. These funds are intended to enhance the United States' and international organizations' efforts to fight political, social and economic challenges facing the African nation. |
| Security crucial to Kabila's success | |
IRIN - December 20, 2006 | |
 | Joseph Kabila won Congo's first democratic presidential elections in decades, but now the 35-year-old former guerrilla leader faces the daunting task of rebuilding from scratch a country almost the size of western Europe. |
| After four-year process, region is closer to peace | |
IRIN - December 11, 2006 | |
 | When preparations for the international conference on peace, security, democracy and development in the Great Lakes region began in 2003, United Nations and African Union (AU) officials were at pains to explain that this was a process, not just a meeting, that would take years to achieve. Four years later, the last of two state summits in this process is scheduled for 14-15 December in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. |
| DRC's Election Results Make Its Neighbour Nervous | |
Monuc/IRIN - November 3, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) anxious wait for the outcome of the presidential election run-off is putting its neighbour Zambia on edge where currency dealers are stocking up on kwacha, the local currency, and dumping the DRC's Congolese franc. |
| With more displaced in Katanga aid groups step up activities | |
IRIN - May 3, 2006 | |
With ongoing fighting between the government and Mayi-Mayi militia groups in the north and centre of Katanga Province the number of displaced has reached at least 165,000 in the last six months, UN officials said. | |
| ICC reviewing suit against ex-president, official says | |
IRIN - April 27, 2006 | |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is reviewing an application filed by the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) against former President Ange-Felix Patasse and four of his aides, to decide whether or not the prosecutor's office would order an inquiry into their alleged crimes, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said. | |
| Greater UN presence needed in Katanga to counter hunger, atrocities | |
UN News Service - March 23, 2006 | |
United Nations relief officials are calling for stepped-up humanitarian and peacekeeping measures to confront hunger and ?horrific atrocities? in Katanga in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting between the army and Mai Mai rebels has driven over 150,000 people from their homes in the last six months. | |
| Security concerns in a "democracy without democrats" | |
IRIN - March 16, 2006 | |
Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a near certainty, despite the obstacles that threaten a smooth transition to democracy. What is largely uncertain, however, is how stable the country will be in the aftermath of the polls. | |
| UN heads drum up support for vulnerable Congolese | |
IRIN - March 1, 2006 | |
The heads of three United Nations agencies, who are on a joint mission to Africa's Great Lakes region, have identified the alleviation of human suffering, security and protection of vulnerable people as some of the issues vital to stability and peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | |
| Humanitarian action plan a turning point, UN envoy says | |
IRIN - February 14, 2006 | |
A US $681 million humanitarian action plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) launched by the United Nations and the European Commission seeks to meet the needs of 30 million vulnerable Congolese. | |
