Full Coverage: Congo Brazaville

02.11.2007 As natural disasters ravish the Caribbean and Central Africa, the United Nations has announced the launch of a new office that will use space technology to reduce and prevent disasters around the world.

16.08.2007 The London High Court has dismissed an attempt by a top official of the Republic of Congo to stop anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness from publishing evidence that suggests he made "secret personal profits" from sales of state oil.
From: Global Witness
+ Index on Censorship: Global Witness Beats Gag Attempt

08.08.2007 The demons of the past will remain the evils that will continue cursing the development of ICT in Africa, if not exorcised. This was the sentiment held by the delegates attending the session on 'ICT Policy in Africa' at the SANGONeT conference.

08.08.2007 AZUR Development and the Association of Indigenous People of Congo (APA 2010) have begun to work together to promote Pygmy women’s empowerment in the Bouenza and Lékoumou counties in Congo.

25.01.2006 Citing concerns that senior Sudanese officials have been implicated in war crimes over the continuing conflict in Darfur, a committee of African Union nations has instead elected Congo-Brazzaville's leader to head the continent's organizing body for the next year. To the great chagrin of rights campaigners, Sudan's president will take over the post in 2007, the committee agreed.

14.11.2005 People on both sides of the Congo River are breathing sighs of relief following the repatriation of former soldiers back to Kinshasa. The combatants had spent eight years in exile in neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville.

05.05.2005 Azur Developpment will hold a symposium on 16-18th May 2005, in Congo-Brazaville, themed "Linking Information Communication Technology(ICT) research to development". The symposium aims to analyze current barriers and challenges to the increase of research on ICT's in universities and high schools, the impact of research on ICT's on the development of communities, the role of research on ICT's in the Information Society.

18.12.2003 The First Lady of the Republic of Congo recently organized galas in the country's two main cities, Brazzaville and Pointe Noire, raising $250,000, which she says she will "personally ensure" is used to provide anti-retroviral treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS.

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22.05.2003 Congo-Brazzaville militia leader Frederic Bitsangou, alias Pasteur Ntoumi, this week left his forest hideout from where he had been leading a guerrilla war campaign against the government since 1998.

30.12.2002 Two Red Cross staff members were released at the weekend in southwestern Republic of the Congo, where they had been held since 4 December.

12.12.2002 Continuing concern about the fate of two staff members abducted a week ago in Republic of the Congo was voiced yesterday by the Red Cross, which said it had received no news about them.

16.09.2002 Students and teachers from the Republic of Congo and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo are educating each other on AIDS prevention through participatory education and peer education.

13.09.2002 A former mayor of a northwest Rwandan town has been arrested in Congo-Brazzaville and will be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania, it was reported today.

15.07.2002 Colonel Jean François Denguet, Police Services director-general, recently threatened to kill Radio France Internationale (RFI) and RSF correspondent Alain Shungu following a publication that said the colonel banned a meeting by the opposition

17.06.2002 At least 10,000 people have fled Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, following two days of fighting between government forces and Ninja militias that began on Friday, the United Nations reported.

28.05.2002 Relief could soon come to thousands of internally displaced people in the Pool region of the Republic of Congo following the government's "firm assurances" that the United Nations would be allowed into Kindamba, a town in the region, the UN reported.

23.05.2002 At least 5,000 people have been trapped since 31 March in the town of Kindamba, in Congo-Brazzaville, and the government has refused access to assess humanitarian needs there, the United Nations said.

28.04.2000 Refugees who fled the Republic of Congo for neighbouring Gabon when fighting flared last year are staying put in spite of a ceasefire brokered in December.

10.01.2000 AIDS-related diseases are the top cause of death in the Congolese Armed Forces, health officials have revealed.