By Sarah | October 26, 2011
Voice of America, 23 October 2011
Presidential campaigning begins this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But opposition parties and international election observers have expressed concern next month’s poll may be postponed. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 26 September 2011
An interview with Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators for Climate Change.
During the Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 17th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu will lead the negotiations on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN).
Mpanu-Mpanu is also director of the Clean Development Mechanism Designated National Authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read the rest of this entry »
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By admin | September 7, 2011
BBC News, 6 September
An opposition activist has been shot dead in Democratic Republic of Congo during clashes with police in Kinshasa. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | August 18, 2011
Congress of South African Trade Unions calls on SADC leaders to act now in defence of democracy in Southern Africa
COSATU, 17 August 2011
The Congress of South African Trade Unions notes that the 31st Ordinary Summit of SADC heads of states and government begins today in Luanda, Angola to discuss various issues affecting the region.
We are however very disappointed by the behaviour of the in-coming Chairperson of SADC, Angola’s President Jose Dos Santos who refused entry into Angola for about 17 civil society activists and leaders from the region, as well as two Mozambican journalists, whilst also seizing publications belonging to Zimbabwean activists. This is unacceptable, particularly coming from someone assigned with the responsibility of providing leadership to the whole region at a time when the challenge of democracy, human rights and economic justice are daunting throughout the region. This also brings into question Angola’s own record of freedom of political activity, free flow of information and right to expression. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 22, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 22 July
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror — including sexual abuse — on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally looking for work, aid agencies have claimed. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 21, 2011
ACTSA News, Summer 2011
Steven Twigg MP, Shadow Minister for Africa and the Middle East
Since taking my post as Shadow Minister for Africa and the Middle East in October 2010 we have witnessed, it is fair to say, a historic period in international affairs. The pace and scale of change is unprecedented for this generation. Events in the Middle East and North Africa region have, almost exclusively, framed the focus of attention of governments around the world on the Arab Spring. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 5, 2011
Bloomberg, 5 July
Angola is ready to hold talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about sharing oil resources along their common maritime border, Oil Minister Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos said. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 5, 2011
The Australian, 4 July
THE Kimberley Process, the mechanism set up to rid the world of “blood diamonds” is on the brink of collapse because of moves to allow exports from Zimbabwe’s fabulously wealthy Marange diamond fields, campaigners have told The Times. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | June 24, 2011
BBC, 24 June 2011
Zimbabwe has controversially been given the go-ahead to sell diamonds from its rich Marange mines.
The industry’s leading certification system, known as the Kimberley Process, was split over the decision. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | June 20, 2011
Guardian Online, 14 June 2011
The price of womanhood came brutally to Odette, born in a wartorn country often dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
The 18-year-old from Minova recalls the day that members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), came to her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and scarred her life for ever. Read the rest of this entry »
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