'I control the town of Bukavu' - Congo

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The peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffered a major blow on Wednesday when renegade soldiers captured a provincial capital in the volatile east of the country.

During the DRC's 1998 to 2003 civil war the town, Bukavu, was a stronghold of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), the Rwandan-backed rebel group in which those who led Wednesday's assault held key positions.

The renegade soldiers are former rebels in the RCD, which has resisted ceding control of its former fiefdoms in the east to a post-war transition government in Kinshasa.

"The dissident troops of Laurent Nkunda and Jules Mutebusi control the town," said a top official in Monuc, the United Nations's military mission in the DRC, asking not to be named.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67269

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1. Iraq Iraq Iraq, terror, Iraq Iraq Iraq

Sudan? Congo? What the hell are you talking about? Let's stick to the important stuff, okay?

(a little sarcastic, but the media are totally ignoring these 'inconvenient' bits of genocide)

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2. The future of Africa

Our future in the west will be directly shaped by the events in africa today. I am working towards an MPH (master of public health) so africa is an obviously large subject in my academics. I could see africa being the new "unstable danger zone" of the west, as millions of homeless, orphaned, infected children grow up, turn to violence and begin to project it out of the continent. Disease is a major cause of violence in the so called third world, and as we turn a blind eye to it today, we seal our fate.

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3. UN troops open fire in Kinshasa

UN troops open fire in Kinshasa