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August 23, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo
The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are… Read more »
August 20, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Mechanisation Fails for Farmers
Mechanisation was expected to transform agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of East Kasaï. But a project to offer tractors for ploughing land… Read more »
August 08, 2011
Congo-Kinshasa: Fresh Start for Coffee Producers
Long years of civil war and instability set off a crippling decline in coffee production in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the country's output in 2010 was less than a tenth the… Read more »
August 13, 2010
Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Farmers Welcome Support
Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions… Read more »
August 18, 2008
Equatorial Guinea: Human Rights Drowning in Oil
The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language… Read more »
June 23, 2008
Chad: 'Africa's Pinochet' Still Eluding Justice
Two years after the African Union mandated Senegal to conduct the trial of Chadian dictator Hissenè Habré, who is accused of thousands of political murders during his… Read more »
October 22, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: World Bank Confronts Challenge Over Logging
The World Bank is scrambling to respond to complaints that it broke its own rules to support commercial logging at the expense of Pygmy lands and livelihoods in the war-wrecked… Read more »
February 15, 2007
Cameroon: Women Face to Face With Desertification
The village of Ngouma has a population of 538 people, 406 of which are women. Most of the men, especially those who can still work the fields, have left in the face of land… Read more »
November 11, 2004
Equatorial Guinea: Growing Suppression, Soaring Poverty in Tiny Oil-Rich Country
The dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is stepping up suppression of opposition, while social conditions in the tiny West African nation are worsening, an… Read more »
July 12, 2004
Congo-Brazzaville: Country Cut From 'Clean' Diamond List
An international diamond "policing" scheme has stricken the Republic of Congo from its list of countries certified as following global trading rules, and accused the… Read more »
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