Questions regarding the deals have led the IMF to halt loan payments to the DRC.
President Obama and President Kagame also discussed the longstanding governance problems in the DRC.
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The DRC is currently the only country where Fonderie 47 sources firearms to be bought for designers.
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The University of Kinshasa also hosted its first geological meeting since the independence of the DRC in1960.
However, GoCongo, a tourist operator in the area, describes the DRC as a place of adventure.
Conservationists say stability in the DRC is essential to ensure that bonobo conservation programs are not jeopardized.
The DRC's report into web accessibility found that more than 80% of sites posed barriers to disabled people.
"Advocating for wildlife conservation is always a battle in a country as poor as the DRC, " says Morel.
Around eight percent of the earth's forest carbon storage is trapped in the DRC's 86 million hectares of rainforest.
The DRC will be gathering evidence from individuals and organisations about access to primary healthcare in England and Wales.
The DRC will also be interested to determine whether some people experience difficulties registering or remaining with a GP practice.
Tens of thousands of people in the DRC depend on artisanal mining, many operating in regions where conflict is not present.
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Unless the World Bank helps the DRC to stop the sell off of these rainforests, they'll soon be under the chainsaws.
But the the DRC's ambassador to the UK, Kikaya Bin Karubi, said the UN "must act" on the basis of the report.
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While in his 20s, he became a friend of Joseph Kabila, who then ran the military and is now the DRC's president.
The Royal College of General Practitioners says it welcomes the DRC's inquiry.
In the 1970s "authenticity" was part of the state ideology in the DRC -- a policy that prohibited the wearing of Western suits.
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But Kenya, supported by Mali, the DRC and six others, wants a 20-year moratorium on all ivory sales, arguing that any trade encourages poaching.
The anti-abortion group Life, which has been pressing the DRC to push for a change in the law, said the statement was a turning point.
Since 1998, more than 5 million people have perished because of the violence in the DRC, according to a study by the International Rescue Committee.
The DRC is also pressing for a new equality act to put all discrimination law on an equal footing as part of a "quantum leap" in anti-prejudice measures.
Dr Michael Worobey from the University of Arizona led a team of international experts to the DRC to find out if there was any evidence to support the theory.
Urging the World Bank to take fresh action to clean up the logging industry, Greenpeace senior forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said it was "crunch time" for the DRC's rainforest.
"The first big job that has to be done is to change the culture - and that's also one of the hardest, " the DRC's Michelle Valentine told BBC News Online.
This inquiry must be designed to ascertain whether the metals originated (a) in the DRC or neighboring countries, (b) in another geographic region, or (c) from recycled or scrap metals.
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Often dubbed the Great African war, analysts say the conflict in the DRC -- considered Africa's oldest and deadliest war -- has cost the lives of nearly five million people.
Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
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The aid will also be directed to Tearfund's work in the Fizi territory of the DRC, providing water and sanitation facilities to people displaced by a flare-up in conflict in April.
The DRC office has a diverse staff and culture.
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In its negotiations with the service, the DRC is encouraging chief fire officers to look at each case on its individual merits, rather than make assumptions based on preconceived ideas about disability.
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