Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo (RDC) [kɔ̃ɡo]), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda …

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SUN: Scaling Up Nutrition · 3 October 2019 English

COUNTRY DASHBOARD 2019 Republic of the Congo The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) System was developed for the SUN Strategy 2016-2020. [.. the SUN Movement seeks to catalyze change and deliver nutrition impact. [...] Based on the data, Congo is progressing well with strong Joined the SUN Movement in 2013 performance in intervention coverage Framework and Lists of Indicators, including definitions and data sources, is available at . [...] Congo Enabling Environment As stakeholders from different sectors come together to build an enabling environment

COUNTRY DASHBOARD 2019 Republic of the Congo The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Monitoring, Evaluation FOR CONGO 55% 38% 68% 54% 50% 31% 59% 65% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Median for SUN countries Congo Data Data for Congo are available for 75/85 (88%) MEAL indicators, with most covering the timeframe 2014-2018 2014-2018. Based on the data, Congo is progressing well with strong Joined the SUN Movement in 2013 performance based on data availability. http://bit.ly/sunmeal Congo Enabling Environment As stakeholders from different


SUN: Scaling Up Nutrition · 30 April 2019 English

the SUN Movement seeks to catalyze change and deliver nutrition impact. [...] Based on the data, DR Congo is progressing with moderate Joined the SUN Movement in 2013 performance in the enabling environment legislation for nutrition, (UNPD 2017) breastfeeding rates and nutrition-related SDGs. [...] DR Congo Enabling Environment As stakeholders from different sectors come together to build an enabling environment

COUNTRY DASHBOARD 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Monitoring all forms of malnutrition. LATEST PROGRESS FOR DR CONGO 59% 42% 45% 63% 38% 50% 55% 65% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 80% 100% Median for SUN countries DR Congo Data for DR Congo are available for 77/85 (91%) MEAL indicators the timeframe 2013-2018. Based on the data, DR Congo is progressing with moderate Joined the SUN Movement on data availability. http://bit.ly/sunmeal DR Congo Enabling Environment As stakeholders from different


SAIIA: South African Institute of International Affairs · 1 February 1999 English

The current conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a political labyrinth, obstructive and chaotic. The update addresses the conflict in 1960 as well as the 1999 conflict with the Congolese such an operation. Peace in the Congo might likely fail for several reasons and a limited operation might have more success in creating political settlement for the Congo.

AFFAIRS February 2/1999 CONTAINING CONFLICT IN THE CONGO If Africa presents a unique challenge for peacekeeping then the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRQ represents these difficulties in a particularly on the 1960-64 UN Congo force deployment titled Operation des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC), it may be scarce as it will be now.) At independence, the Congo was faced with an invasion by Belgian troops which Confronted with a situation beyond its control^ the Congo government cabled the UN Secretary-General with


SAIIA: South African Institute of International Affairs · 1 January 1999 English

thirdly a process of national dialogue will have to be cemented involving all the main players in the Congo. Fourthly leadership structure will have to provide reassurance to neighbouring states, fifthly to

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 18/1999 Eight Criteria for Congo Peace Top of the agenda of the annual heads of government year-long and ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Just a few days before, SA Foreign Minister must be addressed if calm is to prevail in the Congo: 'A new leader will have to emerge who is agreeable cemented involving all the main players in the Congo. A new leader will have to emerge who is agreeable relations will have to be maintained with Angola and Congo-Brazzaville: for the former, ensuring that Congolese


ACAPS · 5 March 2020 English

Following the regionalization and decentralization of UNHCR from Headquarters to the field, the Director of the Regional Bureau for Southern Africa, based in Pretoria, assumed the functions of Regional Refugee …

Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO REGIONAL REFUGEE IO NAL RRP 2020- 2021 Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan CREDITS UNHCR wishes Refugee women from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) walk to a market at the Mantapala settlement Burundi. © UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin Republic of the Congo Chapter: A refugee woman from the DRC carries wood IO NAL RRP 2020- 2021 Democratic Republic of the Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan Contents Foreward


ACAPS · 14 February 2019 English

villages of Nkolo, Bongende and Kambandi, on the outskirts of Yumbi. [...] (Radio Okapi 29/01/2019, Congo-B: The Government has assisted in the response by conducting a multi-sectoral France24 21/01/2019) an action plan for three months, following the guidelines of the Past displacement government of Congo-B.

DRC/CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Yumbi – IDPs and refugees to Congo-B Briefing note – 14 February 2019 Violent clashes Yumbi, Mai-Ndombe province, Democratic Republic of Congo (abbreviated “DRC”) between 16 and 18 December 2018 people crossed Congo river into Republic of the Congo/Congo-Brazzaville (abbreviated “Congo-B”), 12,000 were internally displaced to small islands on the Congo river or remote localities in the countryside. Both Both the IDPs in DRC and the refugees in Congo-B lack adequate shelter and have lost their livelihoods


ACUS: Atlantic Council of the United States · 8 March 2016 English

What Burundi, and Uganda—the states that trespassed into the Congo lacks is a responsible government, capable the Congo in 1996 and ignited a terrible, almost decade- of the judicious use and careful stewardship world since 1945. [...] The provinces of the security in the Kivus, the abusive behavior of Congolese Congo that border Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi— national security forces, and the continuing competition North and South Kivu—are ethnically diverse but for conflict minerals, the situation in this eastern Congo populated by a large number of Banyarwanda, people region has scarcely improved. [...] the armed unrest

BRIEF Why the Congo Matters MARCH 2016 GÉRARD PRUNIER The Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC or or the Congo) possesses a population of close to 80 million people and unparalleled natural resources. threatens to extinguish the possibility that the Congo will overcome its own past and move forward to provide world leaders take an active role, not only the Congo but also the broader African Great Lakes region the term-limits provision. ISSUE BRIEF Why the Congo Matters most mineral-rich nation; it threatens to


Amnesty International English

armed group, foreign or Congolese, particularly in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including by using cordon and search tactics to prevent attacks on civilians and disrupt the military

(Public) 21 November 2008 Democratic Republic of Congo: Crisis in North Kivu What exactly is happening The FARDC (Forces Armées de la Republique du Congo) is the national army, estimated to number 20,000 Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including by using cordon and search tactics to situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo”. Together with Human Rights Watch and more than Envoy/Rapporteur) for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to report on the human rights dimensions of the


SUN: Scaling Up Nutrition · 24 September 2020 English

NUTRITION INVESTMENT SNAPSHOT: Democratic Republic of the Congo SUMMARY TABLE Democratic Republic of the Congo’s budgetary structure is aggregated at the sub-programme 2017 allocations 2018 allocations

INVESTMENT SNAPSHOT: Democratic Republic of the Congo SUMMARY TABLE Democratic Republic of the Congo’s


SAIIA: South African Institute of International Affairs · 1 January 1997 English

This paper describes the transitional phase of The Democratic Republic of the Congo from war torn country to democracy with Kabila as the leader of the people. However Kabila was blamed for a number of powers turned against him. The Western countries should support Kabila in the reconstruction of the Congo instead of critising and opposing him.

011-339-2154 DEMOCRACY AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Phil Mtimkulu lectures in African Politics in the South Africa and held on a ship off the coast of Congo, it was thought that Mobutu had agreed to step down would be held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Everybody turned against him, even those Western constitution - and the Democratic Republic of the Congo still does not have a new constitution. Even if hopelessly outdated. The Democratic Republic of the Congo would therefore first have to draft a new constitution


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