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Economy - Development DR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation afrol News - The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. |
Economy - Development Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments afrol News - Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil plantations. |
Economy - Development São Tomé economy back on track afrol News - After a dissappointing 2009, the economic development of the island nation São Tomé and Príncipe is back on track, new statistics reveal. Investments are again made on the islands. |
Environment - Nature | Science - Education Cameroon "new gorillas" need protection afrol News - A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living there. |
Society | Gay - Lesbian Congo Kinshasa discusses criminalising gays afrol News - The Kinshasa parliament is in the process of discussing legislation that will prohibit homosexuality, or "unnatural sexual practices." But the debate climate in Congo is much calmer than in neighbouring Uganda. |
Society | Human rights Trial against Congolese ex-VP confirmed afrol News - The International Criminal Court (ICC) today confirmed it would take on the trial against the former Vice-President of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) for war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic. |
Politics | Human rights Equatorial Guinea opposition leader detained afrol News - The major opposition party in Equatorial Guinea is reporting about the unexplained arrest of one of its executive members. It is the first arrest of a prominent oppositional since the regime announced human rights reforms in June. |
Society | Human rights | Politics Wanted Congo warlord "walks freely in Goma" afrol News - Suspected war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, wanted internationally since 2006, is "walking freely" in the eastern Congolese (DRC) town of Goma, which is controlled by UN peacekeepers and government troops. |
Society | Agriculture - Nutrition | Health Floods hit 1.5 million in West, Central Africa afrol News - Nearly 1.5 million people have been affected by floods and 377 killed in Western and Central Africa, with Chad, northern Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria facing a serious cholera epidemic, relief officials reported today. |
Society | Human rights Congo rapes suspected Rwandan rebel arrested afrol News - Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted internationally for war crimes and mass rapes in eastern Congo Kinshasa (DRC), was arrested in France today. He will be among the first to stand trial on these crimes in the DRC. |
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