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...mission for the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives: "The 44th president should indicate his intention to reform the Bush initiative by issuing a new executive order within his first 100 days in office to reauthorize and renamed the Faith-Based Office...The White House should make clear that the central mission of the office is to support an agenda to fight domestic and global poverty...
Between 1,500 and 2,000 Rwandan troops invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday on a mission sanctioned by the Congolese government to wipe out ethnic Hutu militias. Lambert Mende, Congo's Information Minister, told Reuters that his government had invited the Rwandans onto Congolese soil as "observers" for an offensive against Rwandan Hutu rebels, which was expected to last about two weeks. "The operations are beginning. We have invited Rwandan officers with their security contingents for their safety. They are observers ... The operations to disarm the FDLR [Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda] are planned...
...Hutus, despite several attempts and more invasions, and out of that crucible of conflict came a full-scale war involving a plethora of rebel groups, some Hutu, some Tutsi, some Congolese, some criminal mercenaries - as well as Congo's national army and the world's largest U.N. peacekeeping mission. In 1997 the rebels of Congo's Laurent Kabila managed to overthrow then President Mobutu Sese Seko and install Kabila as President. Later, Kabila's son Joseph took the reins when his father was assassinated. But none of them managed to end the war in the east. (See pictures of Congo...
...them. In 1998 the war sucked at least six neighboring African countries into what quickly became a smash and grab for Congo's timber and minerals. The U.N. has also had to deal with a series of scandals concerning sex abuse and gun running by its soldiers. The Rwandan mission may be aimed at bringing peace. But they are not coming in peace, and in Congo that has always led to more war. See pictures of Congo on the brink...
...FDIC stepped up to the challenges it faced in 2008," says Robert Hartheimer, former director of the Division of Resolutions at the FDIC and a banking consultant in Washington. "I am encouraged going into 2009 that they will effectively perform their mission in what is likely to be a very busy year for failures and bank weakness...