List of Congo articles
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Gayle Smith cropped From Quarantine To Appeasement
President Obama’s nominee for a key post reveals the bankruptcy of Washington’s thinking on Africa.
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51475162_congoriver2cover The River That Swallows All Dams
For 60 years, colonialists, engineers, and dictators have tried to tame Africa’s greatest waterway. Welcome to the Congo River, where dreams go to die.
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BURUNDI-POLITICS-UNREST Burundi Violence Confounds U.S. Optimism About African Democracy
Western observers were quick to call Nigeria's smooth power transition a stepping stone for Africa. But nations facing different challenges are not finding their election seasons to be any easier than before.
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A man stands in a pool of water in a gold mine on February 23, 2009 in Chudja, near Bunia, north eastern Congo. The conflict in Congo has often been linked to a struggle for control over its resources. Congo is rich in mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, tin, and cobalt. The Democratic Republic of Congo government and the main former rebel group reached preliminary agreement on a wider peace deal for the east of the country on February 22, sources on both sides said. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL HEALING (Photo credit should read LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images) Clear as Mud
NGOs criticize companies’ transparency on “conflict minerals” as firms prepare to file their second annual report on the use of gold, tin, tungsten, or tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A Congolese woman walks on September 3, A Miserable Mystery in Congo
Dozens of female infants and girls in a single town have been abducted and raped in the middle of the night. Could witchcraft be to blame?
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452457525_960 Suffocating Congo’s War
Rules imposed by Dodd-Frank are cutting off a critical source of funding for armed groups that have plagued the country for more than 20 years.
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169611959_960 How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo
The campaign to stop conflict minerals is supposed to be protecting people’s lives in one of the most fragile parts of Africa. In fact, it seems to be doing the opposite.
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