Word: congoes
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HILLARY CLINTON, snapping at a student who asked during a press conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, what "Mr. Clinton" thought of a Chinese loan offer to the country. According to State Department officials, the student said afterward that he had meant to ask what "Mr. Obama" thought of the potential deal --AUGUST...
...that extent, the Panorama achieves its goal. The publication is a graphic designer's dream, with full-page charts on everything from "The Crisis in the Congo" to how to butcher a lamb. It is easy to read and aesthetically pleasing, and there's just no way people would get through Porterfield's 22,000-word investigation into the jumbled finances of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge if they read it on the Internet. Every piece of reporting is factual and accurate, and McSweeney's tendency toward honesty - the Congo is "confusing," the bridge's funds "impossible" to track...
...Politics of Climate Change Greenpeace wants wealthy industrialized nations to pay into a U.N.-run REDD fund that would protect priority areas of deforestation in Indonesia, Congo and the Amazon. A $40 billion - a-year fund "could get us to zero deforestation by 2020 - globally," says Kessler. But will rich nations cough up that much? The U.S., the E.U. and Japan are all "willing to put money on the table" for REDD, he adds. "Just to put it into perspective, $40 billion is about a quarter of what the U.S. gave in bailout funds to one insurance company...
...German authorities arrested a Rwandan militia leader, along with one of his aides, for allegedly orchestrating war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo from his perch in Europe. Prosecutors say that since 2001, Ignace Murwanashyaka has remotely commanded the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a paramilitary rebel group accused of killing hundreds of Congolese citizens this year. The organization is composed mainly of ethnic Hutu, some of whom are believed to be responsible for the massacre of more than 500,000 Rwandan Tutsi in 1994. The arrest of Murwanashyaka, who has lived in Germany since...
...rebels who were captured in the fighting. "Scores of villages have been raided and pillaged, thousands of houses have been burnt and several hundred thousand people have been displaced in order to escape from violence generated by military operations," the report said. (See pictures of war and displacement in Congo...