<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Congo</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/centralafrica/congo?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><description>Congo</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Congo, Peace Eludes Its U.N. Keepers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5388-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5388-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[United Nations' largest and most expensive mission is regarded as the most troubled, faulted for failing to safeguard victims in attack after attack despite being authorized to use all necessary means to do so.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report on Abuse Urges DNA Tests for Peacekeepers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, March 24 -- A report to the United Nations  Thursday  proposed forcing peacekeepers to submit to DNA tests to establish whether they have sexually abused women or girls and to ensure that those who have fathered children while on a mission pay child support.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls Resort to 'Survival' Sex With U.N. Troops]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52333-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52333-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United Nations is investigating 150 cases in which peacekeeping troops or civilians in the Congo mission are suspected of having abused or exploited women and girls, some as young as 12.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swing Keeps U.N. Post for Now]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8792-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8792-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, March 4 -- William Lacy Swing, the top U.N. representative in Congo, will remain in his job to help usher the country through a delicate political transition in the face of growing violence, but U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Friday that he  will begin searching for Swing's replacement once the situation becomes more stable.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacekeepers Battle Congolese Militia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2270-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2270-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.N. troops, backed by an attack helicopter and armored vehicles, killed 50 militiamen Tuesday in Congo in the largest show of force since the U.N. mission began six years ago.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy to Resign in Wake of  Sex Scandal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64482-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64482-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, March 1 -- William Lacy Swing, the United Nations' top representative in the Congo, is set to resign in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving U.N. peacekeepers, senior U.N. diplomats and officials said.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bangladeshi Peacekeepers Ambushed In Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53333-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53333-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gunmen killed nine U.N. Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops Friday in an ambush in northeastern Congo, the deadliest assault on the six-year-old mission trying to shepherd the nation out of the chaos of a civil war that killed 3 million people.]]></description><author> Bryan Mealer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Born in Wartime]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51526-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51526-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Amid the epidemic of rapes and sexual slavery in war-torn Congo, there are some girls who willingly become war brides to young soldiers and, occasionally, find love in the bleakest conditions imaginable.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pneumonic Plague Seen in Congo Outbreak]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb. 18 -- At least 61 miners in eastern Congo have died and hundreds have become ill from what appears to be the largest outbreak in 80 years of a highly virulent, airborne version of plague, international health officials reported Friday.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Report Alleges Sexual Harassment by Official]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36677-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36677-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 18 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan increased pressure on the United Nations' top refugee official, Ruud Lubbers, to resign Friday as new allegations of sexual harassment by the former Dutch prime minister emerged from an internal investigation into misconduct.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadly Plague Outbreak Feared in Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35329-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35329-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[International health officials warned on Friday that 61 miners in eastern Congo have died and hundreds have become ill from what appears to be the largest outbreak in several decades of a highly virulent, airborne version of plague.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Congo, Unceasing Loss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In war-ravaged Congo, children are dying in such numbers that more than half will not reach their fifth birthday.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rwanda's Tormenters Emerge From the Forest to Haunt Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12141-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12141-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A decade after the genocide in Rwanda, as many as 15,000 Hutu guerrillas are still hiding in the dense forests of eastern Congo, according to U.N. peacekeepers.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Whaley, Outspoken U.S. Diplomat in Africa, Dies at 54]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1719-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1719-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Peter F.  Whaley, 54, an American diplomat who served during the 1990s in central Africa and who won awards for his provocative political dispatches from hot spots around the globe, died Jan. 29 of pancreatic cancer at his sister's home in Pittsfield, Mass.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housing Costs Push Refugees Far Beyond the Beltway]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1724-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1724-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Refugee  agencies have begun settling people in the Fredericksburg area for the first time, saying housing costs closer to Washington are too steep.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congolese Town Recalls Despot Fondly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22250-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22250-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here on the tranquil shores of Lake Kivu, Mobutu Sese Seko, the country's onetime dictator, often repaired to his sprawling villa, relaxing with a glass of pink champagne or fishing for succulent tilapia. He even doffed his trademark Big Man's leopard-skin cap for a more casual cowboy hat.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refugees With Hopes, Skills Find Opportunity in S. Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59587-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59587-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Once the continent's pariah because of racial oppression, South Africa has become the favored destination for educated, ambitious refugees from other parts of Africa with political and economic problems.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Insistent Appeal for Aid To Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  J   an Egeland , the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs and the U.N. emergency relief coordinator, had a dual purpose for his visit to Washington this week. He told U.S. officials that American relief and food assistance has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the Darfur region of Sudan and in Congo. But he also said there was a global trend of declining support for humanitarian efforts around the world.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting Among Rival Factions Erupts in Eastern Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12335-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12335-2004Dec19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fighting among rival factions ended days of relative calm in eastern Congo on Sunday, while Rwanda withdrew a threat to send troops into the country.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congo, Rwanda at Brink of War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3144-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3144-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/congo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After two years of fragile peace, one of Africa's most volatile regions -- the border area of Rwanda and Congo -- has been pushed back to the brink of war with Rwandan soldiers reportedly staging raids in eastern Congo and Congolese militias clashing separately with each other.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item></channel></rss>