Tag: congo
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January 04, 2010 06:17 AM EST --
Lava from a volcano in a sparsely populated area of the Democratic Republic of Congo is threatening rare chimpanzees, wildlife officials say.
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November 25, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
Ben Affleck is taking a fourth visit to the Congo to help raise awareness about the human rights issues in the country. Over 250,000 people have been displaced and about 5 million killed in war. Affleck . . .
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December 10, 2008 03:41 PM EST --
NEW YORK, Dec 3 (OneWorld.net) - Human rights groups in many parts of the world are taking to the streets this week to demand strict legal actions against those who commit violence against women and girls. . . .
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December 17, 2007 12:47 PM EST --
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 17 (OneWorld) - Renewed fighting between army troops and rebel forces in the eastern province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is worsening displacement among civilians . . .
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December 07, 2008 10:57 PM EST --
I’m poor, so I have to review the older books I can buy used. This novel came out in 1980. It is about an expedition into the Congo to find a lost city and the diamond mines that are rumored . . .
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November 29, 2009 09:39 PM EST --
Tanzanian albinos live in fear of their lives Photo: REUTERS
As someone who is very concerned about the plight the people of Africa, I like to spend time reading about . . .
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January 28, 2008 07:05 PM EST --
e Toward Peace
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Sat., Jan. 26, 2008
NEW YORK, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people continue to die every . . .
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November 16, 2009 05:48 AM EST --
By Louis Charbonneau, Sunday November 15, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is quietly preparing an exit strategy for its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. . . .
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July 24, 2006 04:07 PM EDT --
The killing of people in the Hizbollah and Israeli conflict, the killing of people in Iraq and Afghanistan is nothing to the 1,200 people being killed every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . . .
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May 30, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
Travel to Africa has special meaning in my family. In 1935-36, my grandparents filmed the movie Dark Rapture in the Belgian Congo, preserving . . .
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November 30, 2006 07:06 PM EST --
I was sitting here watching the news when I saw an ad for this group that wants to save Darfur. Apparently, Save Darfur org has thier own website. You can buy bracelets, shirts, hats etc. OK. I understand . . .
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November 20, 2008 01:47 PM EST --
Amidst the widespread violence and large-scale human suffering, Women for Women International is preparing to respond to the needs of thousands of women who are threatened by the fighting . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
"I am afraid of the fighting reaching my area. Like all women, I am afraid of being raped," says Jeanette Yamwerenye, one of the women, who has made it to the Women for Women training in Goma . . .
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November 25, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo are calling for assistance and strong international leadership to prevent further deterioration of the devastating humanitarian situation in the country's . . .
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December 02, 2008 12:55 PM EST --
Over the past decade, a complex web of local, regional, and national conflict has devastated much of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ethnic strife and civil war broke out in 1996, . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:46 PM EDT --
In addition to publishing her poetry, Gather member Katrina Hall often shares her favorite tips, recipes and mouth-watering pictures of dishes she's created with her fellow gatherites. . . .
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October 28, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
October 22, 2008
Alison Raphael , OneWorld US
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (OneWorld) - A student and activist coalition is urging cell phone users to "Cell Out" this afternoon in solidarity . . .
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December 03, 2008 07:50 PM EST --
Is the world doing enough to stop the brutal fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo? More than 250,000 people have fled the fighting since the latest flareup, which began with the Rwandan civil war . . .
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August 20, 2008 11:16 PM EDT --
The Congo:
"Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly."
"The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?"
"Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped . . .
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January 04, 2009 09:43 AM EST --
So...a while ago someone asked me if I'd be interested in hosting a radio show and I thought...hmmm, OK. I'd actually been theoretically considering such a proposition for a while in . . .
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