Elisabethville
Elisabethville Congo (Kinshasa): see Lubumbashi .
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Congo bishop, religious forced into jungle.(violence in Congo)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 5/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...most of the priests and religious in his Congo diocese were forced in mid-April to take...Bosco Matand, general secretary of the Congo bishops conference. Matand spoke to NCR...Lukumwena, 49, is apparently the first Congo bishop to be forced out of his diocese...
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Congo's cautious hope: churches play a positive role in the first democratic elections in more than 40 years.
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a small congregation prayed for wisdom...elections last year. The problems facing Congo, the largest nation in central Africa...poorest people on earth. Two wars devastated Congo from 1996 to 2003, and lawless armed groups...
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The History of the Congo.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 485 words
; The History of the Congo. By Ch. Didier Gondola. (Westport and London...scholars, Gondola surveys the story of the Congo from earliest prehistoric times until the...the political events of the years since Congo's independence in 1960. The stories of...
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The looting of the Congo: the Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the worst conflict anywhere since the Second World War.(Democratic Republic of Congo)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to the rest of the world. [ILLUSTRATION...scandal' that is the Democratic Republic of Congo. For a long time its environment has provided...of Plunder', page 16). The mines of the Congo have poured forth diamonds as well as metals...
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Supping with the devil?(Dateline USA)(includes related article on the passage of US Africa trade bill)(US companies' renewed interest in Congo's natural resources)
Magazine article from: African Business; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...July signing of the Democratic Republic of Congo peace agreement in Lusaka has revived cautious interest in the Congo's resources by US corporations. While adopting...shelved projects. We keep an eye on the Congo's chaotic situation, contends Bill Harcourt...
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The failure of democracy in the Republic of Congo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 161 words
; 9781588265555 The failure of democracy in the Republic of Congo. Clark, John F. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2008...explores the possible reasons for why the Republic of Congo (also known as Congo-Brazaville) failed to consolidate democracy in the...
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Cannibalism shows depths of war's evil, bishop says. (World).(Congo)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/14/2003; ; 201 words
; CONGO: Cannibalism is not part of Congo's culture, but reports that rebels have eaten their victims or forced...reaching, said Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Beni, Congo. The United Nations is investigating the reports, and we hope that...
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Congo clashes.(WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP)(government insurgency in Democratic Republic of the Congo )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 11/17/2008; 131 words
; ...OMITTED] [3] GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Fierce fighting between rebels and Congo's army has forced more than a quarter million...protect ethnic Tutsis, who are minorities in Congo, from ethnic Hutu militias. If the government...
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Congo bishops appeal to Canada and G8.(World)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times; 11/2/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The fighting is not over. During...awareness campaign from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, the Congo National Episcopal Conference (CENCO) implored individual Canadians to assist with the Congo's peaceful transition to democracy. The...
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Kinshasa--The bishops of Congo have called on the United Nations to hold a conference on the Congo Great Lakes Region.(Congo)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 7/1/2004; 156 words
; Kinshasa -- The bishops of Congo have called on the United Nations to hold a conference on the Congo Great Lakes Region. They have written a letter...Kofi Annan, referring to the civil war in Congo as the bloodiest the African continent has...
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Lubumbashi
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Elisabethville Founded by the Belgians in 1910 as a copper‐mining settlement and named after Queen Elizabeth (1876–1965), wife of...
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Katanga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Patrice Lumumba was murdered in Katanga. Under a new, stronger UN mandate the international force took control (1961) of Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) and other strongpoints. An agreement (Dec., 1961) for reintegrating Katanga into the country proved abortive...
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kasavubu, and the deposed Lumumba was eventually delivered into the hands of the Katanga government and assassinated in Elisabethville, although Tshombe himself apparently played only an indirect role in this episode. Negotiations to secure the Congo's reunification...
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