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17 report(s) found    

CONGO-DRC: Kinshasa team in Brazzaville to identify former soldiers, 31/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 31 October (IRIN) - A government team from the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived on Saturday in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, to begin the identification and registration of former Congolese soldiers who served under president Mobutu Sese Seko and... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Hunter-gatherers face starvation following a hunting ban, 28/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 28 October (IRIN) - ... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Seed fairs, distribution benefits thousands in Pool region, 27/Oct/05
NAIROBI, 27 October (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of conflict-affected people in the Republic of Congo's Pool Region - a stronghold of rebels known as the Ninjas - have benefited from seed distribution and seed fairs organised by the NGO Caritas Congo in September and October.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Government unearths thousands of bogus pensioners, 27/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 27 October (IRIN) - The government of the Republic of Congo will, at the end of October, suspend payment to 10,865 pensioners registered under two different pension funds, the government information agency, Agence congolaise d'informations, announced on Thursday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Civil war cause of massive displacement, food shortage, 26/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 26 October (IRIN) - Years of civil war in the Republic of Congo have resulted in massive population displacement, food shortages and an increase in severe malnutrition, a government official said on Wednesday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Minister condemns looting during army-rebel clash, 26/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 26 October (IRIN) - A minister in the Republic of Congo has condemned looting that took place last week in a southern suburb of the capital, Brazzaville, during fighting between the army and rebels known as the Ninjas.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: World Bank to launch rural development project, 24/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 24 October (IRIN) - A World Bank project, estimated to cost between US $30 million and $40 million, is due to be launched in 2006 in the Republic of Congo to rehabilitate agriculture in rural areas, a bank official announced on Saturday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Calm returns to Brazzaville, 21/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 21 October (IRIN) - Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, returned to calm on Thursday, a day after government troops expelled rebels, known as Ninjas, from the city.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Residents flee as army storms rebel stronghold, 20/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 20 October (IRIN) - Panic and fear spread across Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, on Wednesday as government troops exchanged heavy gunfire with "Ninja" rebels holed up in the Bacongo District of the city.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Brazzaville bans poultry imports over bird flu, 18/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 18 October (IRIN) - The Republic of Congo has banned the importation of poultry in efforts to prevent avian influenza, an official of the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Ex-Mobutu guards barred from entering Kinshasa, 18/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 18 October (IRIN) - Some 189 former guardsmen of late Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko, who have been living in the Republic of Congo, were stopped on Tuesday from disembarking at port in the Democratic Republic of Congo because authorities in both countries had not... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Ebola crisis over, government says, 17/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 17 October (IRIN) - The Ebola haemorrhagic fever, which hit the Republic of Congo's Cuvette-Ouest Department between April and July and killed around 10 people, is now over, an official of the Ministry of Health and Population said on Sunday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: President orders payment of salary arrears, 17/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 17 October (IRIN) - Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has asked his government to pay November 1999 salary arrears owed to all civil servants.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Staff in child justice sector lack awareness, inquiry finds, 10/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 10 October (IRIN) - Most of the officials who work in child justice sector in the Republic of Congo do not know the various requirements that govern children’s rights. ... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Rebels await Govt response to coalition proposal, 7/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 7 October (IRIN) - A rebel group in the Republic of Congo's troubled Pool region says it is waiting for a reaction to a proposal it sent the government on Wednesday to form a new government of national unity.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: No end in sight to teachers' strike, 7/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 7 October (IRIN) - A strike by teachers in primary and secondary public schools throughout the Republic of Congo entered the fifth day on Friday.... Full Report... Email Report

CONGO: Rwandan refugees reluctant to return home, 4/Oct/05
BRAZZAVILLE, 4 October (IRIN) - Despite the prevailing peace in Rwanda, thousands of refugees who fled the country following the 1994 genocide and found refuge in the Republic of Congo are hesitant to return home. ... Full Report... Email Report

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