Republic of the Congo

Coordinates: 1°26′24″S 15°33′22″E / 1.44°S 15.556°E / -1.44; 15.556

The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo), also known as Congo, Congo Republic,West Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by five countries: Gabon to the west; Cameroon to the northwest; the Central African Republic to the northeast; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east and south; and the Angolan exclave of Cabinda to the southwest.

The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.

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'Dark day': Congo rebels kill 2 health agents fighting Ebola

Journal Review 21 Oct 2018

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Congo's health minister calls it a "dark day" for everyone fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak after rebels shot and killed two medical agents with the Congolese army who had been assisting health officials ... Congo's latest Ebola outbreak is taking ... South Africa Southern Africa Africa Democratic Republic Of The Congo Central Africa....

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200 Ebola cases confirmed in DRC

Xinhua 21 Oct 2018

KINSHASA, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- A total of 200 Ebola haemorrhagic fever cases have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since August, said the health ministry on Saturday ... Declared by the DRC authorities on Aug ... ....

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Global Forecast-Celsius

Hastings Tribune 21 Oct 2018

Global Forecast as of 18.00 GMT Saturday, October 20, 2018. ————— ... (%);Sunday's UV Index ... Anchorage, United States;Inc ... rain;32;17;NW;6;40%;57%;7 ... Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;Clouds and sunshine;34;23;A morning t-storm;31;23;NNW;9;69%;77%;9 ... Prague, Czech Republic;Low clouds and fog;14;6;Sun and some clouds;12;1;ESE;7;56%;4%;2 ... Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;Partial sunshine;31;22;Partly sunny;30;23;N;13;74%;64%;8 ... St ... ....

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Global Forecast-Fahrenheit

Hastings Tribune 21 Oct 2018

Global Forecast as of 23.00 GMT Saturday, October 20, 2018. ————— ... (%);Sunday's UV Index ... Anchorage, United States;Inc ... rain;89;64;NW;4;40%;57%;7 ... Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;Clouds and sunshine;93;73;A morning t-storm;88;73;NNW;6;69%;77%;9 ... Prague, Czech Republic;Low clouds and fog;56;41;Sun and some clouds;55;34;ESE;4;54%;4%;2 ... Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;Partial sunshine;89;73;Partly sunny;85;73;N;8;73%;64%;8 ... St ... ....

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Congo's controversial voting machines start arriving

Independent online (SA) 20 Oct 2018

Kinshasa - Congo's deputy prime minister said on Saturday that tablet-like voting machines for December's election had been made to order and will finish arriving this month, despite suspicions by diplomats and the opposition that they may enable fraud ... If it goes ahead, it will be Democratic Republic of Congo's first peaceful transition of power since independence from Belgium in 1960....

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Congo's controversial tablet-like voting machines start arriving

The Times of India 20 Oct 2018

Congo's deputy prime minister said on Saturday that tablet-like voting machines for December's election had been made to order and will finish arriving this month, despite suspicions by diplomats and the opposition that they may enable fraud ... If it goes ahead, it will be Democratic Republic of Congo's first peaceful transition of power since independence from Belgium in 1960....

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Angola says 380,000 illegal migrants exit in weeks

This is Money 20 Oct 2018

About 380,000 illegal migrants, mostly from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, have left Angola in less than a month during a massive operation targeting diamond smuggling, a minister said Saturday. On a visit to Dundo in northern Angola on the border with DR Congo, Pedro Sebastiao dismissed allegations that the migrants had been violently expelled and often beaten by police....

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Over 150 people die from Ebola in Congo

Business Day Online 20 Oct 2018

Without any end to the epidemic, the number of deaths from Ebola has reached 147 (35 of them probable), the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) announced on Saturday ... Health Minister Oly Ilunga relaunched on Friday the campaign to raise awareness of the response against Ebola in Beni, a city in the northeast of Congo with more than one million inhabitants ... NAN ....

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Congo-Kinshasa:80% of Schoolchildren Back at School in Ebola-Affected Areas

All Africa 20 Oct 2018

Kinshasa/Dakar/New York/Geneva -One month after the beginning of the school year, 80 per cent of school-aged children have returned to school in Beni and Mabalako health zones, the two epicentres of the current Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More than half of these children are girls .......

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A Great African Kingdom Tells Its History In Fabulous Royal Clothes

National Public Radio 20 Oct 2018

An exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art finds political power in dizzying patterns from the Kuba Kingdom — located in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Image credit. Eliot Elisofon/Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art) .......

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Seven dead, 23 missing in DRC canoe accident

News24 20 Oct 2018

Seven diamond miners died and another 23 were missing after two canoes capsized in central Democratic Republic of Congo, government and mining officials have said ... ....

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BRI brings gains for mineral firms

China Daily 20 Oct 2018

Mineral companies are reaping rich rewards from China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative with increased global alliances, investments, higher demand for steel, aluminum and other rare metals, experts said on Friday ... "We look forward to more cooperation with Chinese companies ... The company, according to Song, has set up a branch in the Republic of Congo for copper mining, which is seeing positive returns ... ....

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VIEW FROM ABROAD: Belgium’s communal vote was very different this time

Dawn 20 Oct 2018

I VOTED in the Belgian communal elections last Sunday. No big deal, since it wasn’t for the first time. Belgium goes to the polls very often and voting is obligatory. So like a good citizen, I cast my ballot. Each time. Dutifully. This time it was different. This time I voted with intention and purpose ... I smiled ... Pierre Kompany arrived in Belgium in 1975 as a refugee from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony ... ....

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