Sibusiso Moyo, the third Zimbabwean minister to die from the virus, was a potential successor to the president
A five-minute history of the country since independence
Fighting in Kivu, a region in the east of the vast powder-keg state of the Democratic Republic of Congo, first flared a generation ago
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Emmanuel Shadary is President Joseph Kabila’s preferred presidential candidate meaning that Kabila could remain in power if not in office
The announcement came just hours before the deadline for lodging applications for the December 23 election
The president’s list followed last month’s naming of a former opposition leader as his prime minister.
It has been decided that Tanzania will lead the mission to eliminate rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Robert Mugabe regime did not, as some will argue, start off well and slowly descend into authoritarianism. It was always intolerant of opposition.
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/ 18 January 2008
Any country that wants to win the African Cup of Nations had better have a population of at least 15-million — or they might as well bury the thought. Since the inaugural tournament more than half a century ago, the Cup has only once been won by a country that boasts a population of less than 15-million — in 1972, four million-strong Congo-Brazzaville won it.
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/ 11 January 2008
Tutsi rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday rejoined a peace conference aimed at ending long-running conflict in the east, a day after suspending their participation over security concerns. The rebels’ leader, renegade General Laurent Nkunda, told Reuters he was ready if necessary to take part in the meeting.
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/ 22 November 2007
Fighting flared in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s powder keg east on Wednesday, as the army battled insurgent troops after killing 20 rebel soldiers who staged a pre-dawn attack. Men loyal to cashiered general Laurent Nkunda launched a raid on an army position near Rutshuru, the headquarters of an eponymous district in the troubled Nord-Kivu province.
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/ 24 September 2007
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers and troops loyal to a renegade general broke an 18-day truce on Monday in the restive east of the country, officials said. ”We are in a situation of active defence,” Congolese armed forces second-in-command Colonel Delphin Kahimbi said in Nord-Kivu.
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/ 19 January 2001
The main players in Congo’s conflict are waiting to see whether interim president Joseph Kabila is a man of war or peace.
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/ 19 January 2001
There are certain people whose personaliÂties are accurately depicted by their physiÂcal features — one such person was Laurent Desiré Kabila.