Male victims of rape in countries such as Congo are gaining more attention.
From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.
On September 8th the Bank agreed that countries could qualify as long as they have economic reform programmes in place by 2000, two years after the original deadline, so that war-torn countries such as Congo, Angola and Sudan might benefit.
What is certain is that the response has already far exceeded that following other humanitarian crises including some in which the loss of life has exceeded the 150, 000 now thought to have been killed, such as Congo's war (perhaps 3m dead), or matched it, such as Bangladesh's cyclone in 1991 (140, 000 dead).
To be able to do this would mean creating an efficient and effective method of certifying what were and were not conflict minerals from those areas such as the Congo.
As sustainable development finance remains a critical concern for African economies, the African Development Bank has invested in a suite of creative financing and support instruments, such as the Congo Basin Forest Fund, ClimDev-Africa Fund, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, African Water Facility, and Africa Carbon Support Program.
Most of the aviation fatalities in 2011 occurred in Russia, Iran and African countries that have long faced air-safety problems, such as Angola and Congo.
Recently, with cross-border interventions within Africa becoming more common, and with governments, such as that of Congo, having difficulty in controlling their territory, the Lozis have a better chance of reasserting themselves.
If Mr Nkunda and other alleged war criminals, such as another warlord, Congo's Thomas Lubanga, whose trial has just begun at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, are sent to prison, hundreds of thousands of displaced Congolese may feel safe enough to start going home.
The rest it sucks into its system through contracts made with other diamond producers, and by dispatching its buyers, whose clipped British accents and pressed cotton shirts mark them out as the sort who might otherwise be employed by Her Majesty's secret service, to vacuum up diamonds that seep onto the market in such places as Angola and Congo-Kinshasa.
AngloGold Ashanti is venturing into difficult places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He often journeys to remote spots to check out new itineraries, such as trips to see Bonobo monkeys in Congo and penguins in Antarctica.
The focus of the new Africa Boogaloo anthology shifts to Afro-Cuban music's impact on the western coast of the continent, in countries such as Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Congo and so on.
In the Stern era, players such as Hakeem Olajuwon (Nigeria), Dikembe Mutombo (Congo), Dirk Nowitzki (Germany), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), Pau Gasol (Spain), Vlade Divac (Serbia) and Steve Nash (Canada), among many others, became not only stars but respected ambassadors.
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's peacekeeping division in New York saw the Congo mission as ill-equipped to prevent such violence.
Akinkugbe says that the main areas of employment activity are the mining industry in Central African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture in West Africa and the oil and gas sectors in countries such as Uganda and Ghana.
The blending of various local traditions permeates numerous aspects of the carnival, particularly dances (as exemplified by the mico y micas from the Americas, the African congo and the paloteo of Spanish origin), musical genres (the predominant cumbia and variants such as the puya and porro) and folk instruments (tambora and allegre drums, maraca, claves, etc.).
Apart from a few new states that have become independent only since 1990, such as Eritrea and (de facto) Somaliland, the only laggard has been the inaptly-named Democratic Republic of Congo.
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