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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| International support vital to new government | |
IRIN - January 10, 2007 | |
 | The international community should continue its support for the new government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help it overcome serious security and political challenges, the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think-tank, said on Wednesday. |
| The Executive Office of the National Assembly installed | |
Monuc - January 9, 2007 | |
 | The executive office of the National Assembly of the DRC has been officially installed this Tuesday January 9 2007. The ceremony took place in the People's Palace, in the absence of head of State J. Kabila, who was due to preside over proceedings. |
| Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi dies at 76 | |
Congo Planet - January 7, 2007 | |
 | Cardinal Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi died on Saturday in the University Hospital of Leuven, in Belgium. He was born on 3 December 1930,he was ordained priest on 13 July, 1958,and he became Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro on 11 November 1977. He was proclaimed a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1991. |
| DRC President Names First Post-War Prime Minister | |
VOA News - December 31, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila has named life-long opposition leader Antoine Gizenga as the country's new prime minister in a presidential decree read on state-owned television late Saturday. |
