http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/178/ en_GB_uk Congo Brazaville http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/154768/1/ 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. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/152317/1/ 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 http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/152062/1/ 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79718 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70109 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69010 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65556 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/49934 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. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/104619/1/ http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/38253 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. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/29284 Two Red Cross staff members were released at the weekend in southwestern Republic of the Congo, where they had been held since 4 December. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/29419 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. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/41739 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. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/175 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/16827 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