Actor Ben Affleck has been visiting a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's trying to understand, firsthand, one of the world's worst humanitarian crises of this century. (Nov. 20)
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As the UN agrees to deploys more forces to halt the DR Congo conflict, Laurent Nkunda, the rebel chief, acknowledges partial responsibility for the upheaval in an interview to Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege at a secret location in eastern Congo. But insisting that there is "no life, no economy, no administration, no justice", he says "you cannot destroy what is not there".
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Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and additional reporting by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele on the DRC visit:
http://www.pulitz ercenter.org/showpro ject.cfm?id=17
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12 December 2000
Gentil, a fourteen year old soldier, claims he was abducted from school by Kabila's troops and sent to the frontline to fight for the government. Two months ago, Gentil was captured by rebels and he's now taken up their cause. At Bunya, headquarters of the RCD/ML rebels, Ugandan instructors train young rebels like Gentil.
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Fighting in Congo has resumed and that has doctors concerned about a cholera epidemic if infected patients scatter to escape. Doctors are trying to contain the outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma.
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Renewed fighting broke out Saturday between rebels and soldiers in eastern Congo, as a U.N. special envoy flew in for emergency talks and said President Joseph Kabila was ready to meet his main rival. (Nov. 15)
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Riz Khan speaks with Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, who has spent a lot of time in Congo. She has been speaking and writing about her experiences, and her reports are chilling.