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Cannibalism: 1 ) Congo warriors turning to cannibalism 2) Cannibalism, Violence Plague the Congo 3 ) Congo pledges to push for cannibalism charges 4 ) DRC's cannibalism is rooted in superstition 5) Chaos and cannibalism under Congo's bloody skies 6) Cannibalism in Congo: UN begins investigation 7) Cannibalism in DR Congo: Zainabo's agony 8) The truth behind the cannibals of Congo 9) DRC: MONUC confirms cannibalism in Mambasa, Mangina 10) Cannibalism case is ICC’s first 11) Cannibalism Trial Starts Cannibalism Trial Starts 12) 'These freaks are now out of control' 13) Congolese Bishop Condemns Acts of Cannibalism

Che Guevara in Congo: 1) Retracing Che Guevara's Congo footsteps 2) True story of Che Guevara- (90 min video)- Jul 1, 2007 3)Che Guevara's War-Cry Still Resounds in Congo 4)Che Guevara in the Congo: Another Look 5)Che Guevara 6) Che Guevara's Exploits in the Congo 7)Che Guevara's involvement in the Congo 8)Congo/ Che 9)From Cuba to Congo,Dream to Disaster for Che Guevara

Child Soldiers: 1) The challenge of demobilising child soldiers 2) Former child soldiers return to their families 3) Demobilise child soldiers, free minors held by military courts, says MONUC 4) Thousands of youth risk forced recruitment into militia 5) Recruitment of Children into Militias Skyrockets in Congo 6) Child Soldiers Recall Learning Lessons of War Instead of the Classroom 7) SUMMARY 8) ABDUCTION AND RECRUITMENT OF CHILDREN 9) FORCED RECRUITMENT 10) DEMOBILIZATION OF CHILDREN 11) 10 000 child soldiers in DRC 12)Child soldiers : Skipping childhood 13) Children Fight Congo's Wars 14) Girl soldiers face rejection 15) Child soldiers turn to crime 16) Child soldiers: 40 percent of Congo's troops are boys, private groups say 17) Rebels told me I had to kill’ 18) A Duty to Protect (video) 19) Congo warlord denies war crimes 20) Boys on the last line of defense for embattled village 21) Over 200 children pulled from armed groups in DR Congo, UN says 22) People & Power - Child soldiers - 22 Jun 08 (video) 23) Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo 24) Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers 25) Girls less likely than boys to be freed from DR Congo’s ranks of child soldiers – UN 26) INVISIBLE CHILDREN NEED RESCUE 27) Militias Continue to Press-gang Children 26)Children will be released from armed forces and groups in the East 28) Children of Conflict (video)

Corruption: 1) Corruption ‘part of everyday life in southern Africa’ 2) DR Congo: Corruption Hinders Development 3) Corruption/ DRC 4) Petty corruption is perhaps the biggest problem in Democratic Republic of Congo/seeing the wood for the trees 5) Gobal Issues:DRC 6)War and corruption keep Congo tottering 7) USAID's Strategy in DR Congo 8) USAID:Rebuilding/DRC page 195. 9) Project fraud and corruption reported in DR Congo 10) DR Congo: Corruption Hinders Development 11) Corruption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 12) IFES-Anti-corruption in DRC 13) Golbal Policy Forum/ Monitoring Policy Making at the United Nations: DRC 14) The Congo's blood metals 15) DRC cancels timber deals 16) Deadly Legacy: U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War 17) Guns and gems clash in DR Congo 18) Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo 19) Companies accused of fuelling Congo conflict 20) The new blood diamonds? 21) Conflict Minerals Under Study in US Congress 22) Congo Resource Wars 23) Global Witness urges governments to act on findings of UN experts' report on DRC 24) Congo Connection - Congo (video) 25) "Struggle for a Functioning Congo", 26) Jason Strearns' Congo Blog (current updates) 27) Following the Mineral Trail: Congo Resource Wars and Rwanda

Crimes Against Humanity: 1) DR Congo war crimes suspect in custody of international court 2) Court examines DR Congo 'crimes' 3) Congolese Warlord Faces ICC Charges Amid Setbacks to First Trial 4) Crimes of War Project 5) D.R. Congo: Arrest Laurent Nkunda For War Crimes 6) D.R. Congo: War Crimes in Bukavu 7) When the Unacceptable Becomes Normal 8) International Criminal Court's investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity a major step forward 9) DR Congo: UN welcomes life sentences on soldiers accused of massive rape 10) DR Congo war crimes suspect arrested 11) International Non-governmental Commission of Inquiry into the Massive Violations of Human Rights Committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Zaire) 1996-1997 12) Crimes against humanity in DRC: Verdict on Wednesday 12 April 2006 13) Sexual violence against women in DR Congo amounts to war crime: UN expert 14) War Crimes/Crimes Against Humanity 15) D.R. CONGO 16) Ex-child soldier recalls Congo war atrocities 17) UN envoy visits scene of Congo massacre 18) DR Congo war crimes trial begins 19) Ex-DRC leader on war crimes charges 20) Rebel leader accused of genocide lives in Paris 21) Rape death of girl, 3, highlights 'barbarism' in DR Congo: UN 22) "You Will Be Punished"(183 pages)

Culture: 1) Culture of DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 2) EXPLORE THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 3) Culture: Congo (Democratic Republic) 4) Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo culture 5) MercyCorps' Film Connection 6) IRIN Africa-DRC 7) On-Line Resources Related to Democratic Republic of Congo 8) Tribes in the Congo 9) Congo, DR network 10)DR Congo/Africare 11) Stanford/Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC (links) 12) Sciibd: Congo (links) 13) Nat. Geographic/ Travel/ DRC

Death Count: 1) Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century 2) DR of Congo emergency costs 1,200 lives a day 3) Congo crisis is world's deadliest - survey 4) Hunger reaps a grim toll in Congo 5) Congo: an everyday story of horror and grief 6) A conflict which costs more than 31,000 lives every month 7) DRC strife 'linked to 31 000 deaths a month' 8) 4 million dead in Congo 9) Thousands die from DR Congo war 10) Inside Congo, An Unspeakable Toll 11) Chaos in Congo still taking toll on children 12) Congo's 3.9 m victims make it deadliest crisis for 60 years 13) Horror of Congo's forgotten war (2008.03.27 video): 5.4 million dead. 14) The Congo: 5.4 million dead (video) 15) Congo’s Death Rate Unchanged Since War Ended 16) Congo’s killing fields worse than Holocaust 17) Huge death toll in Congo 18)Another humanitarian crisis, another war - but no U.S. 19)Surveys Indicate Mammoth Toll

Economy and Job creation: 1) China's $5bn loan to DRC has IMF worried 2) UN report on illegal resource exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [parts] 16 October 2002 3) Rwanda's illegal resource exploitation 4) Uganda's illegal resource exploitation 5) Govt and Zimbabwean illegal resource exploitation 6)Mineral smuggling is costing the DRC millions7) Ignoring Congo's plight 8) Congolese shock at 'fat cat' pay 9) Food insecurity prevails in east and north, aid agencies say 10) Congo's tin men 11) Global Policy Forum: DRC 12) DRC's Economic War 13) ‘Blood’ money sustains Congo war 14) "Mining crisis" in DRC's Katanga province 15) IMF:Democratic Republic of the Congo: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 16) Congo's riches fuel its war 17) Special Report: China Invades Africa 18) Exile and patriotism – Who will rebuild DR Congo? 19) Managing the 'curse' of natural resources: charter offers guide for politicians 20) Slowdown blights DR Congo economy 21)Congo: Thousands of miners could face poverty 21) DR Congo external debt unsustainable without relief: IMF 22) DR Congo inflation at 74 pct 23)‘Conflict Minerals' ban could do more harm than good for DRC poor 24) Congo’s miners get a raw deal in the gold quest

Education: 1) Schools raided as children are press-ganged into Congo conflict 2) Child kidnap 'surge' in DR Congo 3) Congo rip a leap of faith for lay leader 4) North Kivu Humanitarian Situation 5) No books, no peace, but Congo schools open 6) War Child International: Rebuilding schools in the Congo 7) RESPECT International 8) Muyisa Orphanage D.R.Congo 9) Children fight on in Congo's war 10) Directory of Medical Schools in Democratic Republic of the Congo 11) 'We need the roads, hospitals and schools fixed' 12) United Methodist Schools in Congo follow the national curriculum required by the government.13) Congo teachers demand fair wages 14) Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 15) Pulling for better schools in DR Congo 16) UNOPS:Building schools in DR Congo 17) USAID:INVESTING IN PEOPLE: EDUCATION 18) DR Congo: These children are at school, but they get no education 19) INHEA: History of Higher Education 20) Thousands of schools closed in eastern DR Congo 21) KASANDO SCHOOL PROJECT 22) In DR Congo, counselling and education heal the invisible wounds of war 23) Low enrollment rates prompt efforts to invest in education in DR Congo 24) Congo Mission in Action 25) Education under Attack 2010 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo 26) UNICEF: Education crisis in DR Congo (video)

Environment: 1) Likasi residents told to avoid radioactive river 2) Forest Elephants on a Road to Ruin 3) Robbing the Rain Forest 4) DR Congo's hippos face extinction 5) On DR Congo's ivory trail 6) Wildlife expert persuades notorious rebel army to join fight to save rare white rhino 7) Gorilla Numbers Grow Despite War and Poachers 8) Pygmy chimpanzees on the brink of extinction 9) DR Congo volunteers help give back to nature 10) Geography and Environment: Congo (Democratic Republic) 11) ENVIRONMENT:Pollution Takes a Backseat in Congo 12) Carving Up the Congo (video) 13) Congo's "conflict charcoal" 14) The Amazing Congo River 15) Congo Connection - Congo (video)

Feminist issues in Congo: 1) Rape in the Congo 2) Protecting the Women of Congo 3) DR Congo: Hell on earth - systematic rape in Eastern Congo 4) ATROCITIES AGAINST WOMEN WIDESPREAD IN CONGO WAR 5) NGO In Congo Says Pornography Contributing To Atrocities 6) Women in Congo - Weapons of War (video) 7) African Feminist Forum statement on the United Nations Reform 8) Women for Women International 9) Women for Women: What we do 10) Women left for dead—and the man who’s saving them 11) WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS 12) DR Congo Country Director for Women for Women International (video) 13) The Atrocities Committed Against Women and Girls in the Congo Defy Imagination 14) UN chief urges: End violence against women 15) An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo 16) Eve Ensler Calls for Rape-Free Cellphones 17) Human rights group raises alarm over Congo rapes 18) From ‘Oprah’ to Building a Sisterhood in Congo 19) Prosecution Wraps Up Case 20) Rape-camps lurk in the history of your gadgets 21)16 Days of Activism: The forgotten victims of conflict in the Congo 22) DR Congo: Women “prisoners” in their own homes 23) Forced recruitment of child soldiers in DRC 24) Tortured And Raped In The Congo 25) We're All Raping the Congo, One Cell Phone Call at a Time 26) Children of Conflict (video) 27) Congo Connection - Congo (video) 28) My Journey To Report On THe Horrors And The Hope In The Congo (also see 29) Catherine Corpeny/ search results 30)Run for Congo Women 31) U.N.'s Wallstrom Says Congo Will Be Her First Stop (impunity)

Fistula: 1) War Against Women 2) “Not Women Anymore…” 3) DRC: Healing the wounds of war at Panzi Hospital, South Kivu 4) Women left for dead—and the man who’s saving them 5) The stigma of rape in Eastern DR Congo 6) Treating Fistula in the Democratic Republic of Congo (video) 7) Violence Against Women: No Crime More Brutal 8) DR Congo fistulae (video) 9) Clinton decries rapes in Congo 10) Rape with Extreme Violence: The New Pathology in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Genocide Prevention: 1) Books › ""genocide prevention"" 2) Genocide 3) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 4) Genocide Convention at Fifty: Web Links 5) Prevention, "Mental Health" & Human Nature 6) Genocide Prevention Task Force Releases Report 7) Prevent Genocide International 8) The Genocide Prevention Center 9) Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 (USA) 10) Learn more about genocide and how to prevent it 11) Voices on Genocide Prevention 12) Google Video: Genocide Prevention (results) 13) Holocaust Education: Nizkor Project (very important site) 14) Web Site Search Results: DRC Note: see Links page #115 for more "genocide prevention"

Government:1) Incumbent Declared Winner in Congo Vote 2) The decentralisation law is the priority of priorities 3) New DR Congo constitution adopted 4) New DR Congo constitution backed 5) Congo places president’s son in charge of country 6) Interim government named in DR Congo 7) Final Congolese Peace Deal Signed in S. Africa 8) DRC: Government, rebels agree on military posts 9) Congo swears in country's new governors 10) Congo Votes in Its First Multiparty Election in 46 Years 11) Congo convenes first free parliament in 40 years 12) DR of Congo: New UN report documents abuses by police and army troops 13) Rights group: 500 Congo opposition members killed 14) ICC judges to hear case against ex-Congo VP Bemba 15) The International Dimensions of the Congo Crisis 16) No award for African leadership 17) Chief of State and Cabinet Members DRC 18) Congo: The Broken Heart of Africa - 04 Dec 06 - Part 1(video),Congo: The Broken Heart of Africa - 04 Dec 06 - Part 2 (video)19) The Undemocratic Republic of Congo - Congo (video)

Health: 1) Doctors Without Borders:Search Results/ DR Congo 2) The difference between life and death 3) "The Congo has 10 dentists for 56 million people" 4) Kinshasa doctors demand overdue wages 5) Mass measles vaccinations are effective at early signs of outbreak 6) Mutombo's Aid for Hospital Lifts Congo 7) Terror of starvation grips the Garden of Eden 8) Congo Violence Creates Medical Crisis 9) Neenah doctor helps reshape lives in Africa 10) Democratic Republic of Congo:Field News MSF 11) Congo Bio Med 12) Dikembe Mutombo (video) 13) DR Congo: Hidden epidemic of starvation and disease plagues smallest victims 14) Ebola kills two more in DRC 15) Health topics/WHO 16) DRC: Deadly meningitis hits Kisangani 17) Congo Surgeon Trains in Burn Treatment at Rambam 18) Why Give a Damn about Congo? (video)

History: 1)The history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—Kinshasa 2) King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain 3)AMONG CONGO CANNIBALS by JOHN H. WEEKS 4) The Congo and Coasts of Africa by Richard Harding Davis 5) Pioneers in Congo by Sheppard, William Henry, 1865-1921 6) Congo History by Nigel Rolland 7) The Belgian Congo, reservoir of the allies (1942) by Arthur Wauters 8) CONGO DISASTER (1961) by COLIN LEGUM 9) The Congo Rebellion (1964) 10) Internet Archives search results: Congo 11) Congo: a brief background history 12) Congo Connection - Congo (video) 13) Demystifying the Congo (video) 14) Secrets of The CIA - Congo (video) 15) US STATE DEPT: DRC Background 16) America's Early Role in the Congo Tragedy

HIV/AIDS: 1) The U.S. Agency for International Development : DRC/ HIV/AIDS 2) Rape cases up by 60 percent in North Kivu 3) Almost a million children orphaned by Aids in the Congo 4) MSF introduces ARV treatment in Bukavu 5) Congo's HIV/AIDS epidemic intensified by systematic rape 6) The HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking an increasing and terrifying toll on Africa's women 7) Mudimuishi: combating HIV/AIDS in DR Congo 8) ITHACA: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - HIV/AIDS 9) GlobalHealthReporting: HIV/AIDS in DRC 10) WHO: HIV/AIDS/ DRC 11) DR Congo: Volunteers help children orphaned by HIV/AIDS 12) HIV/AIDS estimates: DRC

Infrastructure: roads,bridges, rail, electricity,water 1) Beyond historic elections, one of the worst humanitarian crises 2) Transport Minister Fired in DRC After Deadly Plane Crash 3) Africa Infrastructure Conference 4) Congo waits sceptically for the lights to come on 5) DR Congo lands US$74 million ADB loan for road rehabilitation 6) Road means trade, security, perhaps even democracy for eastern Congo 7) UN agency to rebuild roads in bid to bring food to hungry people 8) Rebuilding Congo's Railroad 9) Congo river reopens to trade 10) EU aviation agency bans 83 African airlines 11) On a wing and a prayer12) U.S. School Buses Get 2nd Life in Congo 13) Transport in the DR Congo 14) EXPLORE THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 15) The Boat - DRC (video) 16) In the Heart of Africa, Darkness 17) 90 People Dead After Boat Sinks on Lake in Congo 18) MTN May Buy ZTE’s 51% Stake in Congo Phone Venture

Justice: victums, judges, police:1) Progress has been very disappointing bringing sexual violence perpetrators to justice 2) Congo Militia Leader Faces First ICC Trial In March 3) Military Court Trials Worry Rights Activists 3) South Kivu: 4,500 sexual violence cases in the first six months of this year alone (July 27, 2007) 4) Arbour: I'm encouraged by the mobilization of civil society in the fight against impunity 5) DR Congo's towns besieged by rapists 6) DR Congo's justice for sale 7) DR Congo official ran death gang 8) Rape, brutality ignored to aid Congo peace 9) THE FAILURE OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM10) Hundreds executed after Kabila killed 11) Confronting Impunity12) Justice for Horrific Crimes Needed13) Prosecuting the most serious crimes 14) DRC: High death rates in prisons due to malnutrition 15) War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo 16) DRCongo’s landmark basic law formally adopted 17) Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 18) DR Congo's Bemba accused of rape 19) Warlord 'press-ganged children' in Congo 20) MONUC supports capacity building course for the DRC military justice system 21) DR Congo: Militia Leader Guilty in Landmark Trial 22) Journalist Recalls Disturbing Prison Ordeal 23) DR Congo passes amnesty law for eastern rebels 24) MONUC assists Congolese justice in trying massive rape cases at Lieke Lesole

Militia: 1) 'Magic water' militia fuel Congo terror 2) U.N.: Congolese Rebels Practicing Cannibalism 3) 'Mad Max' militia roam streets 4) MASSACRE IN DRC; VICTIMS' BODY PARTS USED AS CHARMS 5) Mai Mai leader Gedeon of Manono territory: known «good guy », accused cannibal 6) Rwandan Hutus spread terror in Congo 7) D.R. Congo: Executions, Torture by Armed Groups in Ituri 8) Human Rights Abuses of Civilians by Armed Groups 9) DRC: UN troops break up militia camp in Ituri 10) African Force to Disarm Interahamwe in Congo 11) Militia's reign of terror comes to an end in DR Congo 12) Congo rebel faction denounces Nkunda as leader 13) UN: 6 militias killed in Congo fighting 14) DR Congo Hutu gunmen 'on rampage' 15) MONUC condemns exactions and threats on Congolese civilian populations by the FDLR 16) Kabila's Eastern Alies - DRC (video) 17) Rwandan Rebels (video) 18) Uganda captures rebel commander 19) DR Congo: Brutal Rapes by Rebels and Army 20) Group: Civilians under attack in northern Congo 21) DRC-UGANDA: LRA torture of civilians continues 22) DRC: Militias causing increased havoc in northeast 23) DR Congo: MONUC responds to NGO concerns over FDLR reprisals 24) Prosecution Wraps Up Case 25) Rebel leader accused of genocide lives in Paris 26) DR Congo: Ex-LRA captives speak of "devil's" army 27) U.N. Report: From Bad to Worse in War-Torn Congo 28) UN radio: 27 civilians killed by rebels in Congo 29) UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 30) Congo Rebels - DRC(video) 31)Tourist vs. Rebels (video)

Mining: 1) Agencies Pressure DRC Commission to Publish Mining Review 2) Mining Boom in DRC Boosts Fortunes of State-Owned Gecamines 3) Leaders of Africa's copper, cobalt heavyweights discuss trade 4) DRC mining association to be established in 2007 5) Mining Offers Potential, and Challenges, for Congo 6) Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo7) Chinese demand boosts DR Congo mines 8) Diamond Mining and Conflict 9) Global Issues :DRC 10) MINING NEWSLETTER: DRC 11) THE MINERALS OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 12) Mining for Bling (video) 13) The Real Mobile Phone Wars - DRC (video) 14) Coltan, the 'blood mineral' of Congo 15) Illegal mining fuels DR Congo war 16) "Mining crisis" in DRC's Katanga province 17) DR Congo: SRSG responds to Global Witness re UN resolutions on the illicit exploitation of natural resources 18) Congo completes review of mining contracts 19) The Search for Gold in Congo 20) France seals African uranium deals 21) Conflict Fueled From Many Sources 22) Congo (Kinshasa): Militarization of Mining Well-Entrenched 23) Mineral Wealth of the Congo 24) A gold reawakening in the DRC 25) PWC’s blood stained ties 26) Global Witness urges governments to act on findings of UN experts' report on DRC 27) Congo Connection - Congo (video) 28) In Focus: Congo's Bloody Coltan (video)

Monuc: 1) W.Swing: An expensive peace is better than any war 2) UN chief "deeply concerned" at dire situation in DR Congo 3) UN peacekeepers traded in arms, weapons in eastern Congo 4) UN Congo Staff and Soldiers Accused of Prostitution, Rape, and Pedophilia 5) U.N. hopes to crack down on sex abuse by peacekeepers but powers are limited 6) Security Council Extends Mission 7) MONUC: Our preferred option is that combatants enter brassage immediately without conditions 8) MONUC: Our number one concern is that a fast solution is found to the crisis 9) UN destroys militia camps 10) DRC peackeepers struggle on 11) UN joins forces with Congo troops 12) Congo Will Start New Rebel Hunt, UN Mission Head Says 13) UN accused of failing to protect Congo civilians 14) UN mission in DR Congo downgraded (video) 15) New peacekeeping strategy for Congo unveiled 16) United Nations Humanitarian Fund gives $7 million in rapid response to people affected by hostilities in DRC 17) DR Congo: Amid Alleged Army Atrocities 18) Strife in eastern Congo 19)UN extends mandate (for 5 mo.)of DRC peacekeepers

National Army: 1) DR Congo Government forces commit worst of widespread abuses 2) Army abuse compounds IDPs' lot in Ituri 3) MONUC denounces the presence of children in FARDC's ranks 4) MONUC: Our preferred option is that combatants enter brassage immediately without conditions 5) Contact group workshop on reform of DRC army 6) UN calls for Congo to punish troops for mass rape 7) Government, rebels agree on military posts 8) Underpaid soldiers threaten national security 9) DR Congo: army and police continue to violate civilians' human rights, says UN mission 10) Envoys Condemn DR Congo/ FDLR Alliance 11) Conviction of Government soldiers in DR Congo welcomed by UN mission 12) Current Situation (Fall 2008) 13) Africa Focus: DR Congo's former rebel CNDP awaits political reintegration 14) DRC army accused of civilian abuses 15) Congo: 'The soldiers meant to protect us are the same ones killing people' 16) DR Congo: Integrated rebels begin rebellion in Congolese army 17) EU sees DR Congo army reform as priority 18) Human rights group raises alarm over Congo rapes 19) Report: UN-backed Congo troops killing civilians 20) 'Terminator' lives in luxury while peacekeepers look on 21) Congo: Troops Suspected of Looting 22)US Marines to train Congolese army battalion

News Coverage: 1) ) Africa's forgotten crises 2) Counting the dead 3) New Web resource to track the disasters the media ignores 4) Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot 5) Congo's conflict receives minimal media coverage 6) allAfrica.com: DRC news updates 7) Congocast.org 8) Government Documents/U. of Mich. Library: DRC 9) Cross-referenced news and research resources about war & armed conflict in DR Congo current updates 10) Gobal Voices Online: DRC 11) Congo Daily/ wn network 12) Congos Religion News 13) EXPERTS TALK: Democratic Republic of Congo 14) Horror of Congo's forgotten war 2008.03.27 (video) 15) DR Congo: Peace Accord Fails to End Killing of Civilians ~ requires the attention of all journalists 16) Activists Slam World's ‘Grotesque Indifference’ to DRC 17) Congo NewsWatch 18)When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year

NGO's:1) Negotiating humanitarian access in Ituri, Eastern Dr Congo, 1999-2004 ( 22-MAR-06) 2) Fighting Cripples Humanitarian Aidin War-Torn Eastern Congo 3) UNHCR - 640,000 internally displaced in Kivu provinces between June and July 2007 4) IRC assists victims of D.R. Congo massacre 5) The long road to delivering food aid 6) Humanitarian Funding to Democratic Republic of Congo 7) Forest Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo 8) ReliefWeb: Updates specific to Democratic Republic of the Congo 9) Mercy Corps 10) Crisis Group’s reporting on the DRC 11) Committee of Conscience WINTER 2009 12) Congo Advocacy Coalition letter to United Nations: Civilian Protection Now 13) DRC: Protect civilians in northeast from rebels - MSF 14) USG Humanitarian Assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (as of 18 Feb 2009) 15) HA2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo Web 16)DR Congo: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #14 (FY 2009) 16) DR Congo: Humanitarian crisis Mid Year Review 2009 17) Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Weekly Bulletin, 22 January 2010 18) Medical Teams International sends more urgently needed volunteers, supplies to help survivors of war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo 19) USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (map) 20) DR Congo: Innocents trapped between Government and Interhamwe Rebels. 21) Dr Congo: UN Condemns Death Threats 22) Travelogue from DR Congo: Day 1,[Day 2],[Day 3]

Peace Agreements: 1)UN envoy hails peace accord between DR of Congo, Uganda 2) Security Council members hail DR of Congo, Rwanda peace agreement 3) DR of Congo: Security Council, Annan say inter-Congolese dialogue key to peace 4) DR Congo peace deal signed 5) Last foreign troops leave DR Congo 6) Foreign troops begin Congo pullout 7) African 'World War' peace signing 8) Warring Congo factions sign peace dea l 9) DR Congo's unending war 10) Final Congolese Peace Deal Signed in S. Africa 11) Ceasefire signed in Congo 12) Sun City Agreement13) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Peace Agreement14) THE NAIROBI COMMUNIQUE

Press Freedom in DRC: 1) Reporters without Borders: annual report 2) CPJ urges government DR of Congo to respect press freedom 3) CJFE protests arrests of journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo 4) D.R. Congo: Climate of Fear Threatens Elections 5) Report: Congo among worst in the world on press freedom 6) HRW Alarmed About Hate Radio Broadcasts and the Incitement of Ethnic Violence in the DRC 7) Journalist Recalls Disturbing Prison Ordeal

Refugees: 1) Six million Congolese displaced by war 2) DRC refugees start making their way home 3) Dangers increase for displaced in eastern DR Congo, UN says 4) Congo fighting uproots tens of thousands - UN 5) Civilians Flee As Fighting Breaks Out in DR Congo 6) More Congolese Fleeing Into Uganda From Fighting 7) UNHCR increasingly concerned by spiralling displacement and atrocities in North Kivu 8) Refugees on the move as DR Congo fighting escalates 9) Congo violence (video) 10) No Home for Congo's Pygmies 11) DR Congo: Continuing LRA rampage displaces more Congolese 12) Emergency Relief Coordinator, in briefing to Security Council, stresses essential need for improved humanitarian aid in Democratic Republic of the Congo 13) Returns from Democratic Republic of the Congo to Rwanda increase 14) UNHCR Says Security Continues to Deteriorate in North Kivu, DRC 15) Protect DR Congo civilian 16) Homeless in DR Congo (video) 17) Congo and Angola officials to suspend deportations 18) DR Congo: UN sounds alarm over armed attacks against camps for displaced 19) Food Distributed to Thousands Displaced by Fighting in Northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo 20) DRC: Thousands flee LRA attacks in northeast 21) DR Congo voices: "liberated" and displaced 22) Population Movements in Eastern DR Congo, Apr - Jun 2009 23) Over 120,000 DRC Refugees Flee to Neighboring Countries to Escape Ethnic Fighting 24) Merlin reaches communities cut off by violence in DRC 25) Thousands of homes burned in new atrocities in Eastern Congo, villagers tell Oxfam 26) Report: More than 1,000 killed in eastern Congo 27) UNHCR: 536,000 made homeless this year in E. Congo 28) Analysis: Fighting for peace in DRC's Kivu region 29) PHOTO JOURNALISM: DRC

Rwanda Genocide: 1) Ghosts of Rwanda 1/12 (twelve part video) 2) Former Rwandan Army Colonel Convicted Over 1994 Genocide 3) Planner of Rwandan massacres convicted of genocide 4) Hutu rebels drop guns, return to Rwanda 5) DECLASSIFIED DOCS REVEAL U.S. PURPOSEFULLY IGNORED RWANDAN GENOCIDE 6) DR Congo arrests war-crimes suspect 7) Ex-minister gets 30 years in Rwanda genocide 8) Rwanda troops withdraw from Congo 9) Renzaho Arrested 10) Génocidaires in Congo 11) Key Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Uganda 12) Key Rwandan genocide suspect pleads not guilty 13) Official: Uganda to rebury Rwanda genocide victims 14) ICTR wants 11 fugitives from DRC 15) Evidence of Inaction 16) Profile: Agathe Habyarimana, the power behind the Hutu presidency 17) Rwandan leader's widow arrested in France

Sexual Violence/ Rape as a Weapon of War: 1) Displaced Congolese Face Rape, Disease, Violence in North Kivu 2) Sexual Brutality Accompanies War in Congo 3) Aid group closes DR Congo clinics 4) Girl soldiers: Hidden faces of war 5) Rape with Extreme Violence: The New Pathology in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo 6) Hillary’s Good Start 7) Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls ) 8) DISPATCH: Tortured And Raped In The Congo 9) Saving Congo, One Woman at a Time 10) 'Thousands raped' in Congo 11) Dr Denis Mukwege publishes a monograph on sexual terrorism in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 12) Mass rape - time for remedies 13) Eight years of darkness 14) Progress has been very disappointing bringing sexual violence perpetrators to justice 15) Hundreds of thousands of women raped for being on the wrong side 16) In Congo, an epidemic of rape 17) DR Congo sexual violence (video) 18) Aged one to 90, the victims of hidden war against women (video) 19) Cries for Help From Congo’s War Victims 20) Congo’s male rape victims speak out 21) Sexual Terrorism: Rape as a Weapon of War in Eastern 22) Rape used as weapon in DR Congo (video) 23) Filmmaker Q&A: Fighting the Silence 24) Preview: Fighting the Silence (video) 25) Fighting the Silence Part 2 26) Bruni takes on army of rapists 27) Symbol of Unhealed Congo: Male Rape Victims 28) More than 8,000 women raped last year by fighters in eastern DR Congo – UN 29)About Sexual Violence in Congo 30) Sexual Terrorism: Rape as a Weapon of War in Eastern Congo

Witchcraft and "child witches": 1) Congo children accused of sorcery 2) 'Exorcisms are part of our culture' 3) Tanzania's deadly skin trade 4) Massacre by the jungle witch-hunters 5) In Congo, superstitions breed homeless children 6) Congo child sorcery abuse on rise 7) Congo's child victims of superstition 8) Child witches in the Congo 9) Congo witch-hunt's child victims 10) Congo casts out its 'child witches '11) Congo's 'child witches' lead a cursed life 12) The plight of so-called child sorcerers in the DRC 13) Torment of Africa's 'child witches'14) Child 'witches' the victims of African wars 15) Burundi 'albino killers' arrested 16)Tanzania 'witch-naming' under way 17) Albino victim evicted from safe-house 18) Tanzania fights human skinning 19) Morons in the News: Africans Stone Teachers Over "Ebola Spell" 20) DR Congo soldiers raping pygmies for supernatural powers: NGO 21) Spotlight: “Street kids” in the DRC 22)Crisis in DR Congo 23) Children in Congo recruited as witch doctors for militants