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Gorillas In The Congo Go Full Foodie And Forage For Truffles In The Dirt
Well, la-di-da! Who knew great apes had such fine tastes? Gorillas in parts of the Congo are occasionally seen scratching at ...
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Floods and conflict fuel an alarming humanitarian emergency in DR Congo
Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains in recent weeks has displaced almost 10,000 people in Tanganyika Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This unfolding emergency reflects ...
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout ...
Bikendrik: The unreal, tiny tropical island like Downton Abbey in the South Pacific - where the stories are more unbelievable than the sunsets and food
Encircled by jacuzzi-warm water as clear as crystal, the little island is covered by leafy palm trees, frequently dropping ...
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Escalation in Congolese children going hungry
THE number of children going hungry in war-torn eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has surged 50 percent due to escalating violence this year. Over 2,3 million more children are ...
The Tablet13d
Caritas groups mobilise amid ‘human calamity’ in DR Congo
Caritas organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo expanded their operations in response to the crisis in the east of ...
EL PAÍS English13d
Bonobos communicate using a universal principle of human languages
The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...
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Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone
At 2:00 a.m. evacuees assembled and waited for their names to be called to get on one of the boats; if your name wasn’t called, you were instructed to assemble the next night. It was three anxious ...
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DR Congo: Millions Facing Destitution as Violence Forces People to Flee Multiple Times
Millions of people have been repeatedly driven from first their homes and then, again, from camps, often multiple times. Families have been pushed into impossible choices just to survive, such as ...
AllAfrica.com15d
Congo-Kinshasa: Millions Facing Destitution As Violence Forces People to Flee Multiple Times
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) warns that 100,000s of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been pushed into desperate ... without the means to rebuild or cultivate food. The ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo): Millions facing destitution as violence forces people to flee multiple times
The escalation of violent conflict in recent months has pushed hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into desperate conditions, warns the Norwegian Refugee ...
The New York Times16d
Death Sentences Commuted for 3 Americans Over Failed Congo Coup
By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three American citizens who were sentenced to death over a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo have had their sentences commuted ...