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Blood burgers feed Congo conflict (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,245012775012895,00.html October 16, 2008 12:00am FOR years, African militias have used proceeds from precious natural resources to fund conflicts a practice dramatised in the 2006 film Blood Diamond. Now, there's a new ...
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Blood burgers feed Congo conflict (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
October 16, 2008 12:00am From the Daily Telegraph  FOR years, African militias have used proceeds from precious natural resources to fund conflicts a practice dramatised in the 2006 film {}Blood Diamond{}{}. Now, there's a new twist: blood ...
Other labels: drc, genocide, conflictresources, cattle, blog
Congo, As Go the Hippos ... (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/congoecology ON THE BLUEGRAY waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head. "Nothing," he says, glancing into the empty ...
Other labels: conflict, environment, conservation, livelihoods, wildlife, security, blog
Congo, Rwanda and Uganda united to save mountain gorillas (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.eccplatform.org/index.php?option=comcontent&task=view&id=1312&It emid=161 Source: WWF 22 Feb 2008 Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan and an associated project which ...
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Congo, Rwanda and Uganda united to save mountain gorillas (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: WWF Published February 22, 2008 09:41 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/31616 Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan and an associated project which covers ...
Other labels: wildlife, conservation, environment, blog, cooperation, gorillas, rwanda, uganda
Congo launches review of logging contracts (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: Reuters Published July 31, 2008 08:43 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/37819  KINSHASA (Reuters) Congo, home to the world's second largest tropical forest, launched a review of all timber contracts on Wednesday in an ...
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Fear of New War as Clashes Erupt on Congo's Edge (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/africa/13congo.html?r=1&hp&oref=slo gin By LYDIA POLGREEN Published: December 13, 2007 SAKE, Congo — A major confrontation between the Congolese Army and a renegade general is plunging the country back toward war, threatening to undermine ...
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In Congo, a new twist on 'blood diamonds' (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0827/p12s01woaf.html By Alex Halperin and Jina Moore\ Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the August 27, 2008 edition Warring militias are stealing cows to perpetuate a conflict sparked by spillover from the 1994 Rwandan genocide.By Alex Halperin and Jina ...
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In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/world/africa/04congo.html?r=1&hp By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: March 3, 2009 BUKIMA, Congo — JeanMarie Serundori's eyes light up when he sees his old hulk of a friend Kabirizi. War, displacement ...
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Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Louise Watts LONDON (AP) The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide ...
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