War in the Congo Has Kept the Planet Cooler
It lasted only six months but set the stage for the Second Congo War, which spanned roughly four years and eventually killed ...
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The Congo: War in Katanga
It was a war that the U.N.’s O’Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo ...
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Will Botched State Department Diplomacy Lead to a Third Congo War?
By some estimates, the Second Congo War (1998-2003) caused more than 350,000 violent deaths and upwards of five million ...
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How search for lucrative minerals has left eastern Congo in turmoil
Tutsi militias and foreign powers soon intervened, intensifying the conflict. The Second Congo War (1998-2002) erupted due to strained relations between Rwanda and Uganda on one side and DRC on ...
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The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa Is the Congo River—For Those Who Dare to Take It
“During the six-day war,” he replied, referring to the June 2000 conflict between Ugandan and Rwandan troops in the brutal Second Congo War (1998-2003), when heavy fighting spilled over into ...
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Explainer: Behind Congolese conflict
The second conflict ... While the 2003 agreement officially put an end to the war, it did not end all fighting in eastern Congo, near the border with Uganda and Rwanda. Some of the factions ...
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Survivors of Wartime Rape Are Refusing to Be Silenced
In 2004, at the end of Congo’s own factional war ... requires that ISIS’s actions be treated as a war crime, point blank, and not just a “second-class crime that happens to second-class ...
Boat capsizes in eastern Congo lake, killing at least 50 people, witnesses say
A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, ...
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DR Congo: Rwandan Forces, M23 Rebels Shell Civilians
The Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have indiscriminately shelled displacement camps and other densely populated areas ...
BBC5y
DR Congo exodus of 300,000 'may hamper Ebola battle'
In 2017, a Lendu militia leader, Germain Katanga, became the first convicted war criminal ... the second-largest in history. The outbreak has largely been confined to the eastern DR Congo, though ...
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Will Félix Tshisekedi deliver war or peace for DR Congo and Rwanda?
On Saturday, Félix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second term ... for peace to DR Congo? Or have heightened violence and the president's campaign pledge to go to war with neighbouring Rwanda ...
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War affects girls and boys differently, Democratic Republic of Congo study finds
War has become a regular part of life for many ... of girls as soldiers or how these differ from boys' experiences. Second, while some research does explore these gender differences, it often ...