News | United States
| Barack Hussein Obama Becomes 44th US President | |
VOA News - January 21, 2009 | |
 | Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States, taking the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol before a crowd of more than one million people who had gathered in frigid temperatures to see the first African American become president. |
| President Joseph Kabila Sends Congratulatory Message to President-Elect Barack Obama | |
Congo Planet - November 6, 2008 | |
 | It is with immense pleasure that I send you the heartfelt congratulations of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following your historic election to the presidency of the United States of America. |
| Congolese Celebrate Historic Barack Obama Win | |
Congo News Agency - November 5, 2008 | |
 | People erupted in joy early Wednesday morning as Barack Obama was declared the winner. On the streets of Kinshasa, honking cars greeted the announcement as people gathered to talk about the win and what it may mean for the Congo, Africa, and the world. |
| Why Congolese Hope Barack Obama Wins U.S. Presidential Election | |
Congo News Agency - November 4, 2008 | |
 | A bill introduced by U.S. Senator Barack Obama, in his first year in the Senate, supports the Congolese government position that the presence of Rwandan Hutu militias (FLDR) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in eastern Congo is being used as a "pretext" by Rwanda and Uganda to continue their "interference" in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| U.S. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain asked about Congo humanitarian crisis in second presidential debate | |
Congo Planet - October 7, 2008 | |
 | Senator Obama, let me ask you if -- let's see if we can establish tonight the Obama doctrine and the McCain doctrine for the use of United States combat forces in situations where there's a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our national security. Take the Congo, where 4.5 million people have died since 1998, or take Rwanda in the earlier dreadful days, or Somalia. What is the Obama doctrine for use of force that the United States would send when we don't have national security issues at stake? |
| U.S. Congress passes Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006 | |
U.S. Congress - December 9, 2006 | |
 | A bill to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| US Senators Promote Improved US-Congo Legislation | |
VOA News - May 31, 2006 | |
A bipartisan group of US senators will promote legislation outlining US policy toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The bill is spearheaded by Illinois democrats Barack Obama and Dick Durbin and republicans Sam Brownback of Kansas and Michael DeWine of Ohio. | |
