Science - Education | Health | Labour
Critical lack of health workers in Brazzaville
afrol News / IRIN, 17 July - Congo Brazzaville's Minister of Health, Social Affairs and Family, Emilienne Raoul, has raised concerns that a critical lack of qualified staff in the public health sector will have repercussions for the population's health. She warns of a regional "human resources crisis."
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Politics
Ex-ninja leader forms party in Congo Brazzaville
afrol News, 31 January - Frédéric Bitsangou, an ex-ninja rebel leader has now opted for democratic means to participate in the development of Congo Brazzaville after he had registered his own political. The party's name is called the National Republicans Council, an offspring of Mr Bitsangou's Self-defence Resistance Forces.
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Science - Education | Health | Environment - Nature
Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
afrol News, 8 December - In and around the giant Lossi Sanctuary in north-western Congo Brazzaville, thousands of great apes are dying at rapid speed. Researchers hold they have finally found proof that Ebola is killing large numbers of gorillas and chimpanzees, but were unhappy to note the scale of deaths, which could threaten the entire population of gorillas.
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Science - Education | Health | Environment - Nature
Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
afrol News, 17 November - The next Ebola outbreak should be expected to occur "in northern Congo Brazzaville, towards Cameroon and the Central African Republic," according to African scientists that have closely studied the pattern of the deadly disease. They found that Ebola affect many Central African mammals besides humans and that the disease fluctuates with climate variables throughout the Gabon-Congo region, making predictions possible.
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Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Congo Brazzaville slipping back into corruption
afrol News, 16 November - International financial institutions, particularly the World Bank, have been asked to re-evaluate their relations with the government of Congo-Brazzaville, which is said to pay no heed to good governance, democracy and respect for the rights of its citizens. Brazzaville authorities are accused of corrupt practices after arresting the country's leading anticorruption activist.
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Human rights | Society | Labour
"Child labour still widespread in Congo Brazzaville"
afrol News, 28 September - A new report by trade unionists on Congo Brazzaville (ROC) released today claims that the practice of child labour still is widespread in the country. Despite the ample legislation against child labour, law enforcement was close to absent in that aspect. In particular foreign children were falling victim to harsh conditions.
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Environment - Nature | Economy - Development
Congo timber to be environmentally certified
afrol News, 14 September - Danzer Group, a leading global producer of hardwood veneer and lumber, is seeking to complete a certification process for its giant concessions in Congo Brazzaville (ROC) and Congo Kinshasa (DRC). The management of a combined total forest area of 3.2 million hectares is to meet environmentally sustainable standards by 2008.
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Politics | Media
President "insulted" by Brazzaville editor
afrol News, 25 April - Fortune Bemba, editor of the Brazzaville-based weekly 'Thalassa', has been charged with defamation, attack on the honour of the Head of State and propagation of false news. In an article in 'Thalassa', the President of Congo Brazzaville was accused of poisoning a high ranking army officer.
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Politics
Symbolic weapons-burning ceremony in Congo Brazzaville
afrol News, 21 March - The government of Congo Brazzaville today organised a weapons-burning ceremony to symbolise the reconciliation process in the country. The ceremony was headed by Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who brought visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Brazzaville event. The two jointly set fire to a pile of armaments.
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Society | Science - Education | Gender - Women
Aka Pygmies "best dads in the world"
afrol News, 16 June - The Aka "Pygmies" have been named the world's best fathers, dedicating the most time of all the globe's peoples to active fathering, according to a new study. Aka fathers even commonly offer their nipple to their crying babies to suck, a method perfectly suited for soothing them until it can be fed, the impressed researchers found.
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Society
Difficult repatriation from Congo Brazzaville to Kinshasa
afrol News, 5 April - Great difficulties meat a three-year operation to repatriate some 58,000 refugees from Congo Brazzaville to Congo Kinshasa, which starts later this month. Roads in the region are little more than rough tracks, sudden torrential downpours are common and it can take up to ten hours to travel only 100 kilometres. Some of the journey will be on foot.
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Science - Education | Health | Environment - Nature
Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
afrol News, 23 February - According to a new scientific study, all recent Ebola virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and Congo Brazzaville were the result of handling infected wild animal carcasses. The hunt and consumption of great apes was in particular connected to these outbreaks.
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Environment - Nature
Landmark Congo Basin conservation treaty signed
afrol News, 7 February - The first ever region-wide conservation treaty in Africa has been signed in Brazzaville, giving ample powers regarding forest management to a new regional decision-making body for the Congo Basin. The ten countries to sign the landmark treaty include Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Congo Kinshasa (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and São Tomé.
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Environment - Nature | Politics
Brazzaville summit addresses Congo Basin's forests
afrol News, 3 February - As leaders gather for the second Central African Heads of State Forest Summit in Brazzaville on 4-5 February, environmentalists warn that two thirds of the Congo Basin's forests could be lost within fifty years if illegal logging, poaching and smuggling of wildlife, and illicit bushmeat trade continue at the current level.
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Economy - Development | Politics
Confidence in Congo Brazzaville after oil transparency
afrol News, 17 December - Since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week stated its confidence in Congo Brazzaville, good news have not stopped streaming in. Earlier this week, Congo's main creditors decided to cancel 60 percent of its debts. Today, the African Development Bank (ADB) said it had decided to resume its assistance to Brazzaville. New transparency in the oil sector turned the tide.
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» 16.12.2004 - Debt of US$ 1.6 billion cancelled for Congo Brazzaville
» 07.12.2004 - Congo Brazzaville makes economic progress
» 12.10.2004 - Oil discovery in shared Angola-Congo zone
» 22.09.2004 - Congo Brazzaville oil production "soon to rebound"
» 24.06.2004 - Success for "oil flights" from Paris to Malabo, Pointe Noire
» 21.05.2004 - Tri-national rainforest park in Congo Basin financed
» 25.03.2004 - Call for oil transparency in Central Africa
» 30.01.2004 - Congolese Pool region stabilising
» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 23.12.2003 - European satellite to assist solving the Ebola enigma
» 21.11.2003 - Congo's Pool region again growing insecure
» 17.11.2003 - Eleven Congolese Ebola deaths officially confirmed
» 29.07.2003 - Call for oil transparency in Congo Brazzaville
» 15.07.2003 - Brazzaville meets with potential donors
» 27.06.2003 - Congo Brazzaville to restore economic credibility
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