<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Democratic Republic of Congo</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><description>Democratic Republic of 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5388-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52333-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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[U.N. Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30286-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30286-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United Nations is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct by U.N. personnel in Burundi, Haiti, Liberia and elsewhere, which is complicating the organization's efforts to contain a sexual abuse scandal that has tarnished its Nobel Prize-winning peacekeepers in Congo.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8792-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2270-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64482-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53333-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51526-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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[In Congo, Unceasing Loss]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17528-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12141-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1719-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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[Congolese Town Recalls Despot Fondly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22250-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22250-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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[The Countless, Unforgettable Victims of Disaster]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30068-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30068-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although the world quickly forgets such natural disasters -- the body count in Bam, Iran, was 30,000 and it was just last year; hadn't forgotten, had you? -- the memory of the dead always lingers for those who meet them.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</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/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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[Congo, Rwanda at Brink of War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3144-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3144-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 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><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Sexual Abuse Alleged in Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3145-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3145-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 34-page draft report, which was obtained by The Washington Post, accuses U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco, Pakistan and Nepal of seeking to obstruct U.N. efforts to  investigate a sexual abuse scandal.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AIDS Near 'Tipping Point' In India, China, Russia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23417-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23417-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The head of the United Nations' AIDS program warned that the three countries could turn their small, localized epidemics into gigantic ones capable of disrupting the world's response to the disease.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Says Its Workers Abuse Women in Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15363-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15363-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/centralafrica/democraticrepubliccongo</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 16:02:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 26 -- Sexual exploitation of women and girls by U.N. peacekeepers and bureaucrats in the U.N. mission in Congo "appears to be significant, wide-spread and ongoing," according to a confidential U.N. report that documents cases of pedophilia, prostitution and rape.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item></channel></rss>