Word: congoes
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When the Ebola virus resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, health officials hoped to contain the outbreak to the east of the central African country, keeping it to a densely forested area accessible only through dirt roads and tiny villages. That epidemic, which was at its height earlier in the fall, saw 187 people killed and 267 more infected. But the extremely contagious disease, which has a 90% death rate, has now spread to neighboring Uganda, where a new strain of the virus has already killed 19 since September. Now, as the Ebola strain continues...
Chomsky pointed to Congo and Somalia as African countries that have been particularly affected by Western imperialism...
...east African nation. Since July 2006, the Ugandan government and the LRA have been engaged in peace talks that have lapsed as often as they have advanced. The LRA's top leaders - Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti - have been hiding in the bush in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while their scattered fighters have taken refuge in Congo and southern Sudan...
Kennedy and Marshall have different strengths. Kennedy favors development--reading scripts, matching talent and material. "I'm more of a big-picture, conceptual kind of thinker," she says. Marshall, who directed the movies Alive and Congo, excels at the problem-solving required by a logistically complex film. "I love math and making things work," he says. Even on the most meticulously planned movie, however, something will go wrong. There are too many people, too much expensive equipment, too many unpredictable factors like weather and local crowds. On those rocky days, "sometimes you walk on a set, and you'd think...
...against humanity. Though largely obscure outside legal and human-rights circles--and hampered by the fact that the U.S. and a number of other countries are not state parties to the court--the ICC has raised its profile in recent months, opening its first two trials against warlords from Congo. It will gain wider public attention with the Nov.2 U.S. release of Darfur Now, a Syriana-style documentary that chronicles Moreno-Ocampo's pursuit of Harun. Appearing at screenings of the film this fall in Toronto and New York, Moreno-Ocampo received standing ovations, not to mention an audience with...