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Brazzaville - A cargo plan crashed at Brazzaville airport as it was trying to land in a storm on Friday, killing around 30 residents and also the crew, emergency services and witnesses said. Around 30 local people had been killed as the plane skidded off the runway and crashed into houses and a bar in the Congolese capital before crashing
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Brazzaville - Congo's former defence minister has been charged over explosions at a munitions dump that left nearly 300 people dead in early March, according to a document obtained by AFP on Tuesday. Charles Zacharie Bowao, who was minister at the time of the blasts, confirmed the charges for his "mishandling, imprudence, inattention and negligence that caused the events of
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Officials in eastern Congo say the Ebola epidemic has spread to a second center after a woman was contaminated during the funeral of a victim of the disease and travelled back to her home. The health officials say 15 people have died since the beginning of the epidemic. Congolese authorities are warning the population of the
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The Congolese Labour Party (PCT) of President Denis Sassou Nguesso reaffirmed its dominance in the first round of legislative elections in results announced Friday by the interior ministry. The PCT took 57 out of the 69 seats that were won outright in last Sunday's first-round vote. Another 10 were won by the parties allied to the PCT; just one was
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Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who had proclaimed himself the people's president after disputed polls last year, made his first public appearance since the vote Friday. The leader of the main opposition party in the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo attended a mass for peace in the vast country's east, which has been torn by a mutiny and other simmering
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Pokola — A community radio station broadcasting from Pokola, 800km north of the Congolese capital Brazzville, is helping to foster understanding between the Bantu majority and the indigenous Pygmy minority. Radio Biso na Biso (meaning 'between us" in Lingala), launched in 2008 by anthropologist Jerome Lewis and The Forest Trust, aims to smooth relations between Bantu people and autochthonous Pygmy
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The Chinese-led construction boom in Congo-Brazzaville has been assuming mythical proportions. In May, rumours - boosted by a mobile phone video - swept through Brazzaville and Kinshasa that a Chinese exorcist had captured a river demon that had been destroying the pillars of a Chinese-built bridge. For President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the benefits of the boom could prove more tangible: a
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Twenty-three people, all but one of them soldiers, have been charged and detained in connection with a blast at a Congo munitions dump that killed nearly 300 people in March, officials said Saturday. Speaking on national radio Culture Minister Jean Claude Gakosso, the acting government spokesman, said the suspects were remanded in custody following an investigation into the causes of
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The UN food agency on Friday appealed to oil- and mineral-rich nations to set up a fund to combat the food crisis gripping the Sahel desert region and other parts of Africa. Speaking at a conference in the Congolese capital Brazzaville, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation head Jose Graziano Da Silva said the group needed $110 million (83 million euros)
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Brazzaville — A cholera outbreak is adding to the woes of thousands of people displaced by a huge munitions blast in the Congolese capital Brazzaville about a month ago, say officials. "We have 10 confirmed cases of cholera," Youssouf Gamatié, the UN World Health Organization's representative in Congo, told IRIN. Poor hygiene and sanitation conditions in the sites for the
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Brazzaville - The government of the Republic of Congo has commissioned more than 200 coffins for the victims of last weekend's deadly explosions. Brazzaville-based coffin-maker Toubi Eloge says the government had initially imported coffins from a neighbouring country ahead of a state funeral planned for Sunday. At least 246 people were killed when a fire at the country's main arms
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A blast in a Congolese munitions dump last weekend injured more than 2,300 people and left 14,000 homeless, with the death toll unchanged at nearly 200, the government said Thursday. Planning Minister Pierre Moussa, who heads a panel investigating the disaster, told parliament that 13,854 homeless had been accommodated at reception centres and 2,315 wounded had received hospital treatment. Of
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Funerals and a memorial service for nearly 200 people killed in Congo by last weekend's munitions dump blasts will take place on Sunday, a government spokesman announced. "The government will take care of the burials and everything that goes with them," government spokesman Bienvenu Okiemy told AFP on Thursday. The funerals would be held in the city centre and would
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Fears of more unexploded munition at a Congo arms depot where a series of blasts killed nearly 200 people this weekend have delayed the search for more wounded there, officials said Wednesday. Work to make safe the munitions dump where massive blasts killed nearly 200 people has been delayed so experts can carry out more exploratory work in the sector,
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Brazzaville - The Congolese military says the fate of dozens of military recruits is still unknown after their dormitory collapsed following an explosion inside the military munitions depot in the Congolese capital. The new military recruits were assigned to a dormitory that witnesses say pancaked following deadly explosions which occurred on Sunday after a fire spread to the arms depot.
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Brazzaville - Medicine is running short as hospitals struggle to treat about 1 300 people hurt in a string of powerful blasts at a munitions' dump that flattened hundreds of nearby homes in Brazzaville on Sunday. At the university hospital, hundreds of those wounded are treated in wards, corridors, and under tents set up around the building. And while many
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Fires that raged for two days after a huge munitions dump blast in Congo's capital Brazzaville have been brought under control while the death toll has risen to 180 with over 1,300 injured. The explosions on Sunday in Brazzaville, blamed on a short-circuit, were so powerful they flattened hundreds of houses and were felt in Kinshasa, the capital of the
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Brazzaville - The United States has pledged emergency aid to Congo after huge blasts at an arms depot in Brazzaville killed more than 150 people and left 1 000 injured. President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced a curfew in the capital and cordoned off the area around the devastated eastern district of Mpila, as Congo issued a plea for international help
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — International experts fought Monday to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a day after a blaze set off a series of explosions so violent they flattened buildings, killing hundreds and trapping countless others under the falling debris. Small detonations continued to shake Brazzaville,
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Brazzaville - Small blasts continued to ring out in a Brazzaville neighbourhood surrounding a munitions depot, where a fire over the weekend caused a series of explosions that left at least 213 dead. Police cordoned off the district and fire-fighters were working to put out the fire on Monday. A large crowd gathered outside the main municipal morgue, which had
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At least 150 people were killed in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolose capital of Brazzaville early Sunday, a European diplomat said. "We count at least 150 dead in the military hospitals and around 1,500 injured, some of them seriously," the diplomat said when contacted by telephone from Paris, following the fires and explosions that
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Kampala — An influx of refugees fleeing a mix of increased post-election related violence and continued militia activity in parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is stretching the capacity of refugee camps in western Uganda to host them, say officials. "We are kind of overwhelmed; there are many Congolese pouring and crossing into Uganda daily," Stephen Malinga, Uganda's
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Brazzaville - A health official says the small Republic of Congo has seen about 340 cholera cases in recent months. Dr Jean Martim Mabiala said on Monday on national radio that there have been nine cholera deaths since June in the area of Likouala, about 800km north of the capital. The Republic of Congo is often overshadowed by its much
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Final election results show President Joseph Kabila's party losing 45 percent of the legislative seats it held before elections in November that international bodies denounced as fraudulent and chaotic. Kabila still will command a majority in parliament where his "presidential majority" coalition of several parties has won about 300 of the 500 seats. Electoral officials announced
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A provincial official in the Congolese province of South Kivu says a plane has crashed after takeoff and there is no news of the passengers on board. Laban Kyalangalilwa, the minister in charge of transportation in South Kivu province, said Tuesday the plane took off from the city of Bukavu at 7:45 a.m. on Monday and was due to land
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