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  • 22
    Feb
    2013
    6:37pm, EST

    Guinea pig meat improves food security in war-torn Congo

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    Action Against Hunger International (ACF) workers get local residents' fingerprints before distributing guinea pigs as part of a food security program in Congo.

    Action Against Hunger International (ACF) workers distribute guinea pigs to community members as part of a food security program in Karete, Congo, Feb. 19, 2013. Over 500 guinea pigs were distributed to the locals by the non-profit organization that focuses their programs and activities in the field mainly on nutrition and prevention of malnutrition.

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    Workers prepare guinea pigs before distribution of the animals to the community of Karet.

     

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    Too0o0o0o0o0o0 Many of We Humans in the world. When MomNature Steps in to protect her Innocent Children aka The Animals of Planet Earth and who have been doing an EXCELLENT job as Earth's Caretakers, We are gonna" Pay with a brutal culling of Our Species which ONLY MomNature Knows how to do.

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  • 3
    Dec
    2012
    12:06pm, EST

    Warm reception for Congo troops in Goma after rebels withdraw

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    Residents of the district around the military barracks celebrate as a Congolese government army (FARDC) soldier arrives in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 3.

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    Congolese government army troops ride on trucks through Gomaon Dec. 3.

    Reuters reports: Government forces re-established control over Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Monday after rebels withdrew, but a senior official said the insurgents were only a few kilometers away and still posed a threat.

    The M23 rebel movement pulled its fighters out of the North Kivu provincial capital on Saturday after seizing it from fleeing U.N.-backed government forces and holding it for 11 days. Full Story

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    • Congo's displaced fearful after attack on camp
    • Reluctant to leave, some rebels begin withdrawing around Goma
    • Congo rebels pulling back; fate of Goma uncertain

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    A Congolese government army soldier stands outside the military barracks in Goma on Dec. 3.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman dances to celebrate the return of government soldiers to Goma on Dec. 3.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A boy dances to celebrate the government army's return to Goma on Dec. 3.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Government army soldiers use mobile phones to record videos in the town of Sake, some 17 miles west of Goma on Dec. 3.

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  • 2
    Dec
    2012
    3:16pm, EST

    Congo's displaced fearful after attack on camp

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A group of internally displaced Congolese gather in the Mugunga III IDP camp in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 2, 2012.

    UN refugee agency officials reported cases of looting and rape in an attack late on Saturday on a camp for people displaced by the fighting in eastern Congo, Agence France-Presse reports.

    On Sunday people in the Mugunga III camp, which lies about six miles west of Goma and is home to up to 35,000 displaced people, lined up to receive food aid.

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    "What is the point of all this food if there is no-one here to protect us, and to stop them coming back?" one resident of the camp asked. 

    Rebel fighters pulled out of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes regional peace efforts could advance negotiations to end the insurgency.

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    A boy shelters from the rain under a truck in the Mugunga III IDP camp on December 2, 2012.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A man unloads sacks of food aid at the Mugunga III camp on December 2, 2012.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A boy is apprehended by a policeman after he was accused of stealing a bag of salt in the Mugunga III IDP camp on December 2, 2012.

    Editor's note: The caption of the final photo was amended on December 3, 2012 after AFP - Getty Images issued a correction.

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    As previously reported, the Congo rebels really don't have a cause to rebel against. They merely like to shoot people, rape, extort and murder children because that way they can keep their cool camouflage uniforms and guns. Their promise to 'liberate' Goma fell short, because they have no idea how t …

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  • 30
    Nov
    2012
    12:47pm, EST

    Reluctant to leave, some rebels begin withdrawing around Goma

    Jerome Delay / AP

    M23 rebels withdraw from the Masisi and Sake areas in the eastern Congo town of Sake, some 27 kms west of Goma, Nov. 30.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    M23 rebel fighters walk as they withdraw near the town of Sake, Nov. 30.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A M23 rebel fighter walks past a resident as they withdraw from the town of Sake in the Congo.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    M23 rebel fighters withdraw near the town of Sake, some 42 km (26 miles) west of Goma, Nov. 30.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Congolese national police officers arrive at a port on Lake Kivu, Goma, Nov. 30, as Congolese Revolutionary Army (CRA) rebels prepare their final withdrawal from the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

    GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - A reluctance of some rank and file fighters in Congo's M23 rebel movement to withdraw from the eastern border city of Goma is complicating a deal their commanders agreed with regional governments, a rebel spokesman said on Friday.

    A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

    Goma is an important hub in Congo's eastern borderlands which have suffered years of recurring conflict stoked by long-standing ethnic and political enmities and fighting over the region's rich resources of gold, tin, tungsten and coltan. The latter is a precious metal used to make mobile phones.

    Rebel leaders, who have declared their intention to fight to topple President Joseph Kabila, said earlier this week they would vacate Goma and other captured positions west and south of the North Kivu provincial capital. Continue reading....

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  • 29
    Nov
    2012
    4:09pm, EST

    Congo rebels pulling back; fate of Goma uncertain

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    An M23 rebel patrols in the hills surrounding the town of Mushaki, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 29, 2012.

    The AP reports: Rebels who last week seized Goma, one of the most important cities in eastern Congo, said they had pulled back slightly and were on track to leave the city by Friday, in accordance with a deadline imposed by the international community.

    The apparent withdrawal of the M23 rebels indicates that international pressure may have succeeded in reversing the rebel advance and staved off what could have been the start of a new war between the enormous, jungle-covered nation of Congo and its much smaller and more affluent neighbor, Rwanda. Full Story

    Jerome Delay / AP

    M23 rebels gather in the eastern Congo town of Sake, some 17 miles west of Goma, Congo, on Thursday.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Congolese people look at a Congolese government soldier as government troops gathered Thursday in a stadium near Minova, Congo, some 25 miles southwest of Goma, for a morale building session and an address by their commander, Gen. Bahouma.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    FARDC Congolese government special forces gather in a stadium near Minova, Congo on Thursday for a morale-building address by their commander.

    Also on PhotoBlog:

    • Congo's displaced wait for resolution
    • Congo army fights back, rebels hold Goma
    • Congo police surrender, hand in weapons as rebels take control of Goma

     

     

     

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  • 28
    Nov
    2012
    5:06pm, EST

    Dai Kurokawa / EPA

    Congo's displaced wait for resolution

    Children displaced by the fighting are reflected in a pool of water from the previous day's rain at camp for the displaced near Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 28.

    Rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda began retreating from the territory they seized last week and pulled out of the region of Masisi, their military leader said Wednesday, in the first concrete sign that international pressure has stemmed the advance of the fighters. Full Story

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    Always it seems to be the children who suffer in such conflicts. Rwanda should remember what happened in 1994, when in 100 days about 1 million people were slaughtered. Before it is so quick to turn to bloodshed again and invade another country, it better be ready for what other nations will step up …

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  • 22
    Nov
    2012
    8:45pm, EST

    Congo army fights back, rebels hold Goma

    Dai Kurokawa / EPA

    M23 rebel fighters rush from Goma to the town of Sake to reinforce positions as residents of Sake flee with their belongings on the road between Goma and Sake in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 22, 2012. Many of the fleeing residents stopped at an internally displaced person camp between Sake and Goma.

    Reuters reports — Congolese troops fought back on Thursday against rebels who rejected calls from African leaders to quit the eastern city of Goma, captured earlier this week in a major upset that forced U.N. troops to withdraw.

    Thousands of people fled the area of clashes around the town of Sake, as M23 rebel fighters rushed from Goma to reinforce their positions against an army counter-offensive.

    Both sides claimed control of Sake as night fell on the troubled eastern area. There was no independent verification of who was holding the town.

    The M23 rebel movement, widely believed to be backed by Rwanda, has vowed to "liberate" all of the vast, resource-rich country after taking Goma, a provincial capital on the Rwandan border, ramping up tensions in a fragile region. Full story…

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Women run after Congolese soldiers and rebel fighters battle over the eastern Congolese town of Sake, Nov. 22. The woman in orange, identified as Mamou, said she lost her husband by a fatal wound to the head from incoming mortar rounds. Thousands fled the M23 controlled town as the militants seeking to overthrow the government vowed to push forward despite mounting international pressure.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Thousands of Congolese flee the town of Sake, about 16 miles west of Goma, following fresh fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nov. 22.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Congolese children sit on a step in front of M23 rebels in Sake, Nov. 22, 2012. Rebels took the town yesterday, but were engaged in heavy gunfighting this afternoon as government-allied militia tried to retake it.

    Dai Kurokawa / EPA

    A woman who fled her home in Sake emerges from a shelter at an internally displaced person camp in Mugunga, between Goma and Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 22.

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    • Congo M23 rebel leader in Uganda for talks: source
    • Congo demands sanctions on Rwanda, Uganda over rebels

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    I guess if I were a gorilla I would kill all humans so that I and my fellow relatives could live in peace!

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  • 21
    Nov
    2012
    9:45am, EST

    Congo police surrender, hand in weapons as rebels take control of Goma

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Surrendered police officers hand in their weapons at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on November 21, 2012. M23 rebels, who took the city yesterday, called on any remaining policemen and army soldiers to assemble at the stadium this morning to officially surrender.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents of Goma react as they listen to a M23 rebel group spokesman speak at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma on November 21, 2012.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    Spokesman of the M23 rebel group Lieutenant-Colonel Vianney Kazarama arrives at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma on November 21, 2012. Kazarama addressed the population of Goma in an attempt to calm and reassure the civilians following the fall of Goma to M23 rebels yesterday.

    Phil Moore / AFP - Getty Images

    A surrendered police officer stands at the Volcanoes Stadium in Goma on November 21, 2012.

    Rebel forces in the Congolese city of Goma called on any remaining policemen and government soldiers to surrender and hand in their weapons Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reported, a day after the city fell to the rebels.

    "The journey to liberate Congo has started now ... We're going to move on to Bukavu and then to Kinshasa. Are you ready to join us?" Vianney Kazarama, spokesman for the M23 rebels, told a crowd of more than 1,000 in a stadium in Goma.

    "Its a problem of governance; there no food, there's no money," Rashidi Benshulungu, a captain in military intelligence who had changed sides, told Reuters. "I'm not a politician, that's a problem for [Congo's President] Kabila. But we're following the ARC," he added, using an acronym used by the M23's combat force.

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    • Rebel army seizes control of Goma as UN peacekeepers do nothing
    • Congo rebel clashes stoke fears of broader conflict
    • UN condemns Congo attacks as rebel advance threatens Goma

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    I truly hope that these rebels will actually work with and for the people of the Congo to remove corruption and help all its citizens improve their quality of life. Too often these revolutions result in a power shift at the top, but the same or worse conditions persisting for the common population.

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  • 8
    Aug
    2012
    9:28am, EDT

    Congo crisis exacerbated by heavy rains

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Internally displaced Congolese children shelter from the rain under plastic sheets as they wait for aid to be distributed in Kibati in eastern Congo on Aug. 8.

    U.N. humanitarian chief, Baroness Valerie Amos, trudged through puddles of muddy water on the outskirts of Goma in eastern Congo, to greet some of the 280,000 displaced Congolese who had rivulets of water dripping down their faces as they waited in line.

    They were given a sack containing a blanket, pot, plastic sleeping mat, soap, sanitary towels, a jerry can and plastic sheeting to cover tiny huts put together with twigs and leaves. --Associated Press reports

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Drenching rain punctuated by frightening bursts of thunder and forked lightning add to the misery of some of the 280,000 refugees from Congo's eastern rebellion on Aug. 8 in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo.

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    What really makes me sick is found over in the "Entertainment" section... in light of this suffering, who just bought another new house so they have somewhere to stay on both coasts? Who just bought their fifth car? Who just paid $50,000 to eat dinner with other people with more money than they know …

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  • 3
    Aug
    2012
    2:30pm, EDT

    Cholera threatens displaced Congolese

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    Congolese gather on the roadside at an impromptu site for the displaced in Kanyarucinya on the outskirts of Goma back dropped by the Nyiragongo volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Aug. 3, 2012. Clashes between local militia and government forces in northern Democratic Republic of Congo have sent 2,000 people fleeing into neighboring Uganda, various sources said Friday.

    Jerome Delay / AP reports -- The first case of cholera has emerged among thousands of people in an impromptu refugee camp in eastern Congo. Civilians fled fighting between a new rebel group and government forces backed by U.N. peacekeepers. Doctors Without Borders reported Congo's army only controls the city of Goma and the village of Kibumba, six miles outside Goma. Now the rebels hold all towns as far north as Rutshuru and are threatening to besiege Goma. The U.N. Security Council on Thursday demanded that the M23 rebel group halt any advances toward Goma.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Internally displaced Congolese sit in a school on the outskirts of Goma, eastern Congo on Aug. 3.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Congolese government troops load onto a truck outside the U.N.'s main base in Goma, eastern Congo, on Aug. 3.

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    Lord Jesus- I pray that you will provide for the safety of your desperate children in the Congo. Please protect them and provide for each persons needs. Please heal the sick and stop the cholera epidemic. Please stop the warfare and draw the world's attention to the plight of so many of your childr …

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  • 26
    Jul
    2012
    6:07pm, EDT

    Clashes in Congo force civilians to flee

    James Akena / Reuters

    A government soldier holds his position in the eastern Congolese town of Rumangabo on July 26, 2012.

    Reuters - Congolese rebels and government forces traded heavy weapons fire around two eastern villages on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the provincial capital days ahead of a regional summit due to tackle the rebellion. Read More

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    A government soldier watches a man carry a boy with a bullet wound in his leg in the eastern Congolese town of Rumangabo on July 26.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Congolese government troops and tanks move through the eastern Congolese town of Rumangabo on July 26.

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    Congolese crowd into a building following a clash between M23 rebels and the Congolese army on the edge of Rugari, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's restive North Kivu province on July 26.

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    in the first pic he has the gun on safe, what a dummy. unless hes just posing for the pic.

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  • 24
    Jul
    2012
    3:41pm, EDT

    Thousands flee heavy fighting in Congo

    James Akena / Reuters

    People ride with their belongings on a wooden bicycle near Goma as they flee renewed fighting between the Congolese army and rebels in eastern Congo on July 24.

    James Akena / Reuters

    Families carry their belongings toward Goma on July 24.

    Reuters reports: Congolese rebels and government forces traded heavy weapons fire around two eastern villages on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the provincial capital days ahead of a regional summit due to tackle the rebellion.

    A rebellion launched in April has already forced some 260,000 people to flee their homes. U.N. experts have said neighboring Rwanda is backing the rebels, prompting the United States, a key ally of Kigali's, to cut some military aid.

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