The two biggest in area, Sudan and Congo, are ravaged by strife and misgovernment.
The ongoing war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is counted as perhaps the largest, most devastating conflict the world has seen in some time, while the conflicts inside Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Congo have sapped countless of millions of dollars from the continent's economy, and claimed perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
And the President waived it for Chad, Sudan, Yemen and Congo, saying it was in the national security interests of the United States.
He can make the case for peace to those controlling the flow of money and munitions into Congo and Sudan.
The internal fighting in Indonesia and Sri Lanka pales beside that in the Congo and Sudan, and seems unlikely to be a significant obstacle to the relief effort.
Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
In the absence of any plan to protect civilians, and now that the military operations are ending, the LRA has brutally murdered nearly 1, 000 people since December and driven perhaps 200, 000 people from their homes in both Congo and southern Sudan.
Ebola was first identified in equatorial Sudan following significant outbreaks in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and southern Sudan in the mid 1970s.
In Congo, Sudan and Somalia, chaotic civil strife has kept vaccines and babies apart.
One danger is that, if the wars in Sudan, Angola, Congo and the Horn all become linked, they may split Africa from top to bottom.
In both Congo and Sudan, as is the case in countries around the world, there is an extraordinary eagerness to see this global phenomenon engage positively in their crises.
Investing in the resolution of the conflicts in Congo and Sudan will be much cheaper than continuing to spend billions of dollars a year on humanitarian aid and observer forces.
The danger for the WFP is that the row over its work in Somalia will impede its massive operations in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Congo and beyond by prompting calls for extra scrutiny there too.
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That may look like overcapacity now, but Muya said the bank wants to expand to 10 million customers over the next few years, not only in Kenya but also in Southern Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Congo DRC.
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This is the focus of more than half of our peacekeeping missions, including those in Darfur, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But his rebels now terrorise large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.
It is conducting investigations in four countries: Congo, Sudan, Uganda and the Central African Republic.
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At the other end of the scale, war-smitten Somalia is worst, barely beaten by Congo, Chad and Sudan.
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.
Similarly, governance has deteriorated, usually substantially, in most of the poorest-performing countries, although both the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan have made some headway.
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The alliance with Ethiopia was revived and Eritrea, Uganda and Congo have joined the struggle against Sudan's Islamist government.
The court heard how Ms Musa, from Darfur, Sudan, and her friend Mary Marandran, from the Congo, were sitting on a bench in a play park when they heard racist phrases.
Ugandan troops will head a new regional force, made up of troops from South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, to hunt the rebel fighters, who are holed up in the jungles of the Central African Republic, said Col.
Elements of these U.S. forces have deployed to forward locations in the LRA-affected areas of the Republic of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic to enhance regional efforts against the LRA. These forces, however, will not engage LRA forces except in self-defense.
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Prosecutors are investigating offenses in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and the Central African Republic.
The LRA continues to commit atrocities in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.
The other countries to benefit are Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, and Sudan.
Several countries have introduced or amended laws to strengthen community land rights - including Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Sudan and Tanzania.
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