Congolese fall back on street economy
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars.
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DR Congo President Joseph Kabila suspends six ministers for allegedly embezzling government funds.
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Products like gas, used cars and childrenâs clothing dropped, canceling out inflation in other categories.
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A town in the mineral rich Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to a mysterious group of militants. Going by the name of the Liberation Movement for
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic  Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although  it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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The former main rebel group during Congo's civil war pulled out of a power-sharing transitional government on Monday, dealing a major blow to the country's already fragile peace process.
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GOMA, Congo  - Former rebels in the Democratic  Republic of Congo pulled out of a power-sharing government on  Monday, dealing a major blow to the peace process in a country  emerging from civil war.
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Amid rusted hulks of abandoned  plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town  Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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The fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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Hackles are rising in Congo's volatile  capital Kinshasa as incumbent President Joseph Kabila builds a  lead with results trickling in from the country's first free  elections in more than four decades.
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A row worsens over critical Belgian comments about the DR Congo's slow transition to democracy.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - President Joseph Kabila suspended six cabinet ministers and 10 directors of state-run companies Thursday after a parliamentary inquiry alleged they had embezzled government funds.
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Even now, as thousands of children die each week from drinking dirty water and not having enough food, and the people of once-thriving communities hide like the hunted in the forests, the Congolese expect little from the world's big spenders.
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ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast  - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash.
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The gains of DR Congo's peace process are at risk six month after the transition to democracy, a report says.
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BUKAVU, Congo -- One evening four months ago, a soft-spoken 18-year-old named Aziza was selling bananas in the Bukavu market when some UN peacekeepers summoned her to their car. Aziza went over thinking they wanted to buy fruit, but was persuaded to engage in a different kind of transaction.
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Congolese authorities announced Monday they would hold a peace conference by month's end in the troubled eastern province, after suffering serious setbacks in recent clashes with rebels in Nord-Kivu.