Central Africa

How environmental degradation harms humanity

A new report reveals the boomerang effect of direct assaults on nature, as infectious diseases wing back to plague the people responsible, says Geoffrey Lean. A killing zone for mosquitos: the insects live longer and breed...

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Baby Gorillas To Get New Sanctuary In East Congo

Congo's Only 2 Captive Baby Gorillas To Move To New Sanctuary Where Schoolchildren Can Visit (AP) GOMA, Congo (AP) - Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain...

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Boeing 727 experiences mishap on landing in Goma

KINSHASA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Boeing 727 of the African Aviation Company (AAC), an airline company of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), experienced a mishap while landing Thursday at the Goma international airport in...

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Tunisia: 2010 African Cup of Nations - Tunisia in Group D

Tunis — The drawing of lots for group pairings in the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola took place in Luanda on Friday. Tunisia is in group D, alongside Cameroon, Gabon and Zambia. Here are the results of the other groups:...

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Angola Seeks UN Aid to Repatriate 60,000 Nationals From DR Congo

Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual...

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Nigeria: Bakassi - Take Cameroon to UN, AU, Representatives Urge FG

Worried by the recent attacks on Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by Cameroonian gendarmes, the House of Representatives Thursday advised the federal government to formally report to the United Nations Organization (UN), the...

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India 135 in FIFA rankings

jumped three places to 135th in the latest FIFA [ Images ] rankings. With 163 points to its credit, India shares the 135th spot with Myanmar and Equatorial Guinea. India remains at 23rd among Asia countries behind Myanmar and...

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Eleven killed in Congo ethnic clashes - U.N.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Two days of clashes between rival ethnic groups killed 11 people in isolated northern Democratic Republic of Congo this week, the country's United Nations peacekeeping mission said on Friday.

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Three of a kind: Revealing language`s universal essence

On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are...

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Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa

Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral...

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