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BRAZZAVILLE 15 March 2013 (IRIN) - An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities. (irinnews.org)

The occasional horror story seeps out, but the fact that significant numbers of children are abused and die because people believe they are bewitched or possessed by evil spirits is not well-known or documented.

The minister of Environment, Ftima Jardim, stressed Thursday in Luanda that the Mayombe forest will find axes of trans-border co-operation among the members of that initiative .

Most of the world's cobalt is mined in Africa and the majority of Africa's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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"The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the poorest nations in the world.

Despite progress to protect children living in war-affected countries, the evolving character and tactics of conflict are creating unprecedented threats for children, particularly in Syria, Mali and the Central African Republic, a top United Nations envoy today said.

Earth's human population is expected to coast upward to 9.6 billion by 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100, up from 7.2 billion people alive today, a United Nations agency has projected.

This is so universally understood as a human rights priority that the world has galvanized for a decade - under Canada's leadership - around a United Nations resolution that would provide fundamental human rights protection for women who are victims of violence.

Today, another former military officer in the army of the Central African Republic stated that Jean-Pierre Bemba's troops were integrated into that country's army during the 2002-2003 armed conflict.

A French court upheld on Thursday an arrest warrant for the son of Equatorial Guinea's president on charges of money-laundering, a source familiar with the case said.

Katherine Applegate, pictured above at NPR in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Buffalo Storm , Home of the Brave and The One and Only Ivan.

The past decade of stagnation and decline in South Africa's mining sector is set to end as several projects across South Africa's vast mineral wealth come online in the next five years.

An armed tribal movement burned 16 people alive in a house during a 1 June attack on a village in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN sources said on Thursday.

In a visually stunning multichannel video installation, " The Enclave " , Richard Mosse has created an immersive environment that plunges the viewer into the heart of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Professional basketball player Luc Mbah a Moute of Cameroon, left, and retired basketball player Dikembe Mutombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , right, participate in an NBA Basketball Without Borders event in Dakar, Senegal.

G8 leaders meeting next week to talk about food security must include factors such as domestic violence that affect women's ability to produce, process and prepare food for their families Women attend a lecture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province, where an estimated two-thirds of the female population have suffered sexual ... (more)

A Swahili summary edition of the 2013 Human Development Report was launched here today by the United Nation Development Programme, marking the first time that UNDP's flagship report has been available in the most widely spoken African language.

UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon has issued a report on children in armed conflict, detailing grave abuse going on in Syria and other countries, adding a few new members to the so-called "list of shame" of child abusers.

Armed conflict between government and rebel forces in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused some 85,000 people to flee their homes and settle in camps and public spaces - churches and schools - in Rutshuru District, placing heavy stress on the local community there.

"The Secretary-General is grateful for Ms. Vogt's leadership and her efforts to promote peace, security and development in the Central African Republic," a UN spokesperson said in a statement.

[RSF]Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision on 1 June by the High Council for Freedom of Communication (CLSC), the Republic of Congo's media regulator, to suspend three independent Brazzaville-based newspapers - L'Observateur, Talassa and Le Trottoir - for four months for publishing "seditious articles." (AllAfrica)

CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Mass rape and murder under the rule of militia is a difficult concept for most Americans to comprehend, said cyclist Kim deRoos, but that's the reality for many women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.

Mary Robinson, in a statement issued by her Office last evening, welcomed that the talks &#8220are about to resume soon&#8221 in Kampala, the Ugandan capital after which they are named, under the auspices of the Chairperson of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region , Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

By Lakshmi Puri Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women's rights.

White Pine Pictures Senator Romeo Dallaire has made it his mission to expose and eradicate the use of child soldiers.

Thus said a New York Times op-ed about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, just a couple of months after that law's passage in 2010.

June 8, 1978, was a sacred, momentous event - a revelation - in the history of Mormonism, catapulting the Utah-based faith into a new era of global growth.

The United Nations Children's Fund has reiterated calls for more to be done to improve nutrition in the first 1000 days of life to reduce growth stunting that blights the lives of about 165m children worldwide.

Authorities in the Republic of Congo should lift the suspensions against four weekly newspapers in connection with their articles critical of government officials, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

An excavator is used at the bottom of Congolese state mining company Gecamines' Kamfundwa open pit copper mine January 31, 2013 REUTERS/Jonny Hogg KINSHASA, June 6 - Democratic Republic of Congo's economy will grow by more than 8 percent this year thanks to a booming mining sector but the government knows it must do more to stamp out corruption, ... (more)