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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled in a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees on a range of issues from Facebook's handling...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Congo-Kinshasa: Treasury Sanctions Individuals Destabilizing the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four individuals who have engaged in destabilizing activities responsible for prolonging the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and contributing ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Two UN agencies launch project to rebuild livelihoods in eastern DR Congo
Kinshasa, DR Congo, April 21 (Infosplusgabon) - Two UN agencies are launching an innovative joint project to rebuild livelihoods shattered by conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie du ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Glencore Says Legal Proceedings Opened Against Congo Copper Unit
Glencore Plc said the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned mining company began legal proceedings to dissolve one of its subsidiaries because of a capital shortfall. The Baar, Switzerland-based company said it has several options to remedy the ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in crisis, and US interests are at stake
The First and Second Congo wars, also known as Africa’s World War ... Since 2016, Kabila has delayed democratic elections twice to circumvent term limits. Furthermore, he failed to honor the Saint-Sylvestre Political Agreement between the government ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: These Congo park rangers are risking their lives to protect endangered gorillas
Virunga National Park is home to one of the two remaining populations of critically endangered mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but it's also become more dangerous recently as armed groups plumb its resources. On April 9 ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Congo Government Setting up Fund to Manage All Aid Donations
Internally displaced people wait for food distribution at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: DR Congo football chief held in embezzlement probe
Kinshasa (AFP) - The head of the Democratic Republic of Congo's football association has been taken into custody as part of a probe into embezzlement, an investigating magistrate said Wednesday. FECOFA president Constant Omari has been held along with ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Botswana president urges Congo's Kabila not to stand again
Earlier this year, the government issued a statement openly blaming the president for Democratic Republic of Congo’s deteriorating humanitarian and security situation. “The president of the DRC has stayed in power longer than the time that was expected ...
News Democratic Republic Congo » Commerce: Congo-Kinshasa: United States Announces Additional Humanitarian Assistance for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Today, the U.S. government announced nearly $67 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at the DRC Humanitarian Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. With the assistance announced today ...