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    Will FDLR rebels ever leave Congo and return to Rwanda? Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide‚ some of those responsible are still wreaking havoc in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo‚ where they are terrorising the local population and profiting from the area’s rich natural resources. The BBC’s Grainne Harrington reports on the UN’s attempts to persuade them to lay down their weapons and return home. Vincent Miranzi" is on the legal affairs commission of the Democratic Forces for the

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    in the Congo Basin” A look inside the life‚ culture‚ and habitat of the CONGO. The Congo Basin is located in the continent of Africa‚ Central Africa. It is represented by the countries of democratic republic of Congo‚ Republic of Congo‚ Central Africa Republic‚ Cameroon Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. An area of many rivers‚ forest‚ savannas and swamps the Congo has many unique animals that reside there. According to (World Wildlife) “There are 10‚000 species of tropical plants in the Congo and 30%

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    global witness global witness China and Congo : Friends in Need A report by Global Witness on the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ March 2011 Global Witness investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights abuses. Our investigations and lobbying have played a key role in the establishment of the major international initiatives addressing these issues‚ including the Kimberley Process and the Extractive Industries

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    Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Civil War is rooted in history. Hundreds of years before their civil war‚ many people were kidnapped and forced into slavery. Ensuring a safe place aboard their own ships from disease and illness‚ European slave traders would employ the help of local tribal leaders to find people to be slaves and bring them to the coast. Slaves were usually traded for weapons to be used in conflicts with neighboring tribes. The Congo region learned early on that their inhabitants

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    colonized‚ and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism‚ between 1876 and 1914. The Belgian Congo was a belgian colony in central africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In early 1876‚ the greedy King Leopold II of Belgium had heard about the great money making opportunities in the Congo Basin. The king great plan was to make the International African Association‚ with Cecil Rhodes and the king himself being the organizers

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    Corneas in the Congo Case Study I. Duties and Responsibilities: As the head of a small aid agency in Congo‚ our duty is to cater the refugee’s health dilemmas and concerns. We must attend to their needs by providing them the right health services suited for their condition. Like what is happening in the camp‚ the refugees are in need of cornea transplant because of the poor water condition which resulted to them being blind. Therefore‚ we must do any possible means of giving them enough corneas

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    of Belgium claimed most of the Congo basin since 1876. Rather than another Belgium colony‚ this territory became King Leopold’s private resource under the name “Congo Free State”. The annexation of the Congo is considered to be the most brutal and shocking of all European colonial annexations. After international outcry from several different countries‚ Belgium officially took over the country in 1908 and renamed Leopold’s previous territory as the “Belgian Congo.” Independence was finally achieved

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    Imperialism in Indochina and the Congo Throughout the 1890’s – 1910’s the imperialists ideas remained similar around the globe. Many European countries such as the Netherlands‚ France‚ Germany‚ and the United States proposed similar ideals regarding the importance of imperialism through acquiring of raw materials and territory. Specifically‚ regarding the conquests of and King Leopold II of Belgium‚ and Napoleon III it is evident that the root cause of European imperialists was to discover foreign

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    The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was set up to be the poorest sickest nation in the world by mainly one man. King Leopold the second drove the DRC into having high levels of poverty and low life expectancy to help pretty much only him. He stripped them of their ivory and rubber using black slaves‚ and nobody cared because of racism. Leopold used scams‚ slaves‚ and racism to help his own country‚ he didn’t care about the country he was destroying. While using

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    harmful effects within the Congo and their Natives. Introductory Section: During my brief introduction to the Congo‚ and reading the research of others based on conflict minerals‚ I began to wonder what other factors contribute and relate to this horrid reality within the heart of Africa and its effect on the young ones that live there. After taking some extensive notes and learning a little of the history of the Congo‚ I decided to focus my paper on the children of the Congo and surrounding countries

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