DR Congo poll gets European aid
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The EU pledges more than $100 to help the Democratic Republic of Congo hold elections next year.
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The European Union says it will contribute $100 million to an African force in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said during a visit to Ethiopia Saturday the
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The European Union hailed backing from the diplomatic quartet on the Middle East for an EU proposal for a temporary mechanism to funnel aid to the cash-strapped Palestinians.
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Electoral officials slowly counting votes from Congo's landmark presidential election said Sunday that support for incumbent Joseph Kabila has slipped to just above 50 percent, increasing the likelihood of a runoff.
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Congolese voted Sunday in their first democratic election in more than four decades, many hoping for an end to years of fighting and corrupt rule that have devastated the mineral-rich nation in the heart of Africa.
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MEPs investigate why EU funding for African peacekeepers in Darfur is not reaching the soldiers.
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The European Union is likely to  announce a contribution of more than 100 million euros to an  African Union force in Darfur, amid calls for extra AU soldiers  to be deployed in Sudan's troubled region.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 21 (IPS) - African nations have been reduced to  "begging" in negotiations on their future economic ties  with the European Union (EU) in what has turned into exercise  "assaulting democracy," according to trade unionists and  policy analysts from both north and south.
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Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) turned out in their millions in the first round of historic presidential elections likely to confirm Joseph Kabila as leader of the embattled central African country.
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Aid agencies and human rights groups working in eastern DR Congo say they are being targeted by militias.
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Millions of Congolese voted in the country's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Africa region that Congo anchors.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - European Union officials Monday rejected a French proposal to cut funding to poor countries in eastern Europe with low tax rates that tempt investment away from their richer western neighbours.
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Representatives of the Sudanese government and the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) urged the world community to provide 300 million dollars (244 million euros) in aid to cover emergency needs.
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Ryanair Holdings PLC will repay 4 million euros ($5.1 million) in aid from a regional government in Belgium while it appeals a European Union finding that the funding was illegal.
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21 December 2004 - In a bid to facilitate the delivery of relief aid, United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have set up a temporary buffer zone in the country&#39;s troubled east, where recent factional fighting threatened to
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Visiting UN Security Council diplomats push for 2005 elections in DR Congo despite huge obstacles.
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South Africa and Belgium have expressed confidence that elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will go ahead as planned in seven months time.