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| Kabila Rival Wins DRC Senate Seat | |
VOA News - January 19, 2007 | |
 | The losing candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo's historic October presidential runoff election has won a seat in the country's new senate. Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader who became vice president during a three-year transitional period, has vowed to use his seat in the senate to lead the political opposition. Joe Bavier has more for VOA from Kinshasa. |
| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to visit DRC at the end of January | |
Monuc - January 18, 2007 | |
 | Newly appointed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will visit the DRC for the first time at the end of January 2007, as part of his first overseas trip as UN Secretary General. |
| Congo Rebels Shoot Silverback Gorilla For Food | |
Wildlife Extra/Congo Rangers - January 18, 2007 | |
 | Rebel soldiers commanded by local warlord, Laurent Nkunda, shot and killed a silverback Mountain Gorilla in the Southern Sector of Virunga National Park, in the war torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It has also been confirmed that a second gorilla has also been killed, while unconfirmed reports indicate that possibly several more have been shot |
| Renegade General's Forces to Rejoin Congo Army | |
VOA News - January 18, 2007 | |
 | Democratic Republic of Congo's renegade General Laurent Nkunda has said his forces are reintegrating into the country's national army, following an informal peace deal struck in neighboring Rwanda. Nkunda, who led troops loyal to him into rebellion in 2004, is being sought under an international arrest warrant for war crimes. |
| The 11 permanent offices of the Provincial Assemblies have been installed | |
Monuc - January 15, 2007 | |
 | The permanent offices of the provincial Assemblies have been installed on Sunday 14 January 2007 in accordance with the rearranged calendar of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Jean-Pierre Bemba's platform is controlling four of the eleven provincial offices. |
| Cardinal Frederic Etsou laid to rest as nation mourns | |
Congo Planet - January 15, 2007 | |
 | Cardinal Frederic Etsou was laid to rest today in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Kinshasa. Today's ceremony marked the final moments of a week-long emotional commemoration of only the second post-colonial prelate of the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Pit Collapse Exposes DRC's Shaky Mining Structure | |
VOA News - January 14, 2007 | |
 | The collapse of a diamond pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, in which 15 people were reported killed, has highlighted the dangers of primitive, open pit mining. |
| Provincial governor gets newspaper suspended and editor imprisoned | |
Reporters Without Borders - January 12, 2007 | |
 | Reporters Without Borders today condemned the jailing of Rigobert Kakwala Kash, the editor of the privately-owned weekly Le Moniteur, yesterday in Kinshasa and the 11-month prison sentence he has received as a result of a libel suit by the governor of the western province of Bas-Congo. He is the first journalist to be imprisoned since Joseph Kabila's election as president. |
| Congolese Mourn Politically-Charged Cardinal | |
VOA News - January 12, 2007 | |
 | Citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo are mourning the death of Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, the country's top Roman Catholic prelate. Cardinal Etsou died on January 6 of pneumonia in Belgium. As his body was returned for a scheduled burial in the Congo on Monday, mourners remembered him as a religious and political leader. |
| Anvil to Move to 95% Interest in Kinsevere-Nambulwa Copper-Cobalt Joint Venture | |
Anvil - Press Release - January 11, 2007 | |
 | Anvil Mining Limited (TSX, ASX: AVM) ("Anvil") is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to acquire an additional 15% interest in the mining rights for the Kinsevere-Nambulwa copper-cobalt deposits located 27km north of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC"). |
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