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| 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. |
| Rekindled clashes displace thousands in Ituri | |
IRIN - January 3, 2007 | |
 | Thousands of people have fled the village of Fataki, 70 km northeast of Bunia, capital of Ituri district in Eastern DRC, following clashes between militia and the regular army, officials of the United Nations peacekeeping mission, MONUC, said. |
| 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. |
| Vital Kamerhe elected president of the National Assembly | |
Monuc - December 30, 2006 | |
 | Vital Kamerhe has been elected president of the permanent Office of the National Assembly on Thursday 28 December 2006. The "Alliance de la Majorité Presidentielle" (the Alliance of the presidential majority) (AMP) of President Joseph Kabila has occupied all the seven seats of this executive Office. |
| DRC President's Allies Secure Top Posts in Parliament | |
VOA News - December 29, 2006 | |
 | A close adviser to Congolese President Joseph Kabila has won the top leadership position in the Democratic Republic of Congo's newly elected parliament.Vital Kamerhe, a former minister and secretary-general of President Kabila's People's Party for Reconstruction and Development, was elected president of the National Assembly by an overwhelming margin. |
| Congolese Soldiers on Trial for War Crimes | |
VOA News - December 28, 2006 | |
 | A group of Congolese soldiers is on trial for war crimes allegedly committed in the country's volatile east. U.N. investigators last month discovered mass graves containing around 30 bodies, including women and children, inside an army camp. |
| Clashes, displacement in the east | |
IRIN - December 28, 2006 | |
 | Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in eastern DRC due to renewed clashes between the regular army, and forces allied to renegade commander Laurent Nkunda, according to military sources and the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUC. |
| Congo President Begins Forming New Government | |
VOA News - December 21, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's newly elected leader, Joseph Kabila, is trying to figure out how to form a new government while keeping promises made to various parties during the election period. Some groups say the coalitions and commitments are creating obstacles to the country's political progress. |
| UN reports security improvement with many militia groups demobilizing | |
UN News Service - December 20, 2006 | |
 | Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has improved, with numerous militia groups joining the United Nations-run disarmament programme, and calm returning in the east after fighting between the Congolese Army and partisans of a rogue general, the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) reported today. |
| Security crucial to Kabila's success | |
IRIN - December 20, 2006 | |
 | Joseph Kabila won Congo's first democratic presidential elections in decades, but now the 35-year-old former guerrilla leader faces the daunting task of rebuilding from scratch a country almost the size of western Europe. |
