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Filed Under: Haiti and Latin America
Tags: Ayi Kwei Armah • Ban Ki-Moon • Bill Clinton • Bush coups d’etat • CARE International • Catholic Relief Services • Charlie Rose • Congressional Black Caucus • Ezili Dantò • Gen. Raoul Cedras • Gerard Latortue • Guy Philippe • Guy Philippe death squads • H.O.P.E “sweatshop” bills • Haiti and Latin America • Haiti Constitution • Haiti earthquake • Haiti Electoral Council (CEP) • Haiti oligarchy • Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) • Haiti’s resources • Hillary Clinton • Hip Hop • Larry King • Lt. Gen. Ken Keen • Marguerite Laurent • Marjorie Valbrun • Michel Francois • oligarchy macoutes • Paul Farmer • Port au Prince • President Aristide • President Preval • President Rene Préval • Raul Castro • Red Cross • Sean Penn • Senate Foreign Relations Committee • Site Soley • Spike Lee • Susan Rice • U.N. world food programs • U.S. imperialism • U.S. Special Envoy Bill Clinton • Venezuela President Hugo Chavez • Western military power • White privilege • World Vision • Wyclef Jean

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Filed Under: Africa and the World
Tags: African Holding Company of America • AFRICOM Air Forces AFRICA (U.S. 17th Air Force) • AFRICOM “lily pad” operating agreements • Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) • Ange-Félix Patassé • Angolan Special Forces • Angolan UNITA rebels • Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) • Belgian Armed Forces (BAF) • Belgian arms trafficker Philippe de Moerloose • Belgian colonial rule • Belgian paratroopers • Belgium's Defense Minister Pieter De Crem • Belgium’s Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere • Bemba Saolona • Brig. Gen. Mike Callan • CARE International • Center for American Progress • Central Africa Republic (C.A.R.) • cobalt mines • Col. Floribert Bofate Lihamba • Col. Nyav • Col. Tshatshi Military Camp in Kinshasa • Commonwealth of Nations • conflict minerals • Congo rebellion • Congo River • Congo-Brazzaville • Congo-Brazzaville President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso • Congo-Kinshasa • Congo-Kinshasa President Hypolitté Kanambe • Congo-Zaire • Congolese cassiterite (tin) • copper mines • coup d’etat • Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) • depopulation • destabilization • diamond kingpin Maurice Templesman • diamond mines • Dongo • Dongo rebellion • DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexis Tambwe Mwamba • Edwin Raes • elections rigging • Elwyn Blattner Group • Enough! • Equateur Province • Eric Elliot • ethnic conflict • Eve Ensler • ex-Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) • extortion • Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) • Francois Bozizé • Gabon’s Gen. Ali Bongo • Gen. Benjamin Alongaboni • Gen. Bosco Ntaganda • Gen. Laurent Nkunda • genocide • genocide investigator • Guard Républicaine (GR) • Hewa Bora Airlines • High Court Judge Andreu Merelles • Honoré Ngbanda • Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana • Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation • indigenous Twa people • International Arms Embargo on the DRC • International Criminal Court • International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) • International Crisis Group • James Kabarebe • Janet Kabila • Jean-Pierre Bemba • Jeffrey Gentleman • Jeffrey Gettleman • Joe Bavier • Johan Peleman • John Numbi • Joseph Mobutu • Katanga Province • Keith Harmon Snow • King Leopold • Laurent Nkunda • Lt. Col. Richard Sauta • Mai Mai • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) • Melchior Ndadaye • MONUC Public Information Officer Madnodje Mounoubai • Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) • National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) • National Intelligence Agency (ANR) • National Intelligence and Protection Service (Service National d’Intelligence et de Protection) (SNIP) • November 2009 U.N. Panel of Experts Report on Illegal Exploitation in the Congo • Olivier Kamitatu • Omar Bongo • open occupations • Oubangi River • Patrice Lumumba • Paul Kagame • Police Nationale Congolaise • predatory Western capitalism • President Cyprien Ntaryamira • President Eduardo Dos Santos • President Joseph Kabila • President Kabila’s Presidential Guard Républicaine (GR) • President Laurent Desiré Kabila • President Sassou-Nguesso • Presidential Guards • Project Censored award winner • racketeering • rainforest • Raise Hope for Congo • RDF-MONUC-FARDC forces • Rene Isekemanga Nkeka • Resistance Patriots of Dongo • Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) • Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) • Rwandan Tutsi troops • Sandrine Nguesso • SDE • secret infiltrations of Rwandan forces • Security Police Chief Gen. Kpama Baramoto • slavery in Congo • Sodexmines • Special Forces Cmdr. Gen. Ngabale Nzimbi • Special Presidential Division (DSP) • Special Presidential Security Group (GSSP) • Stewart M. Powell • street children • Tae Kwan Do • Tutsi extremist forces • U.N. Blue Helmets • U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • U.N. Panel of Experts • U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) • U.S. Embassy-affiliated American School in Kinshasa (TASOK) • Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) • uranium mines • USAID • Vital Kamhere • Walter Kansteiner • Wayne Madsen • Western mercenaries • Wilf Mbanga • World Wildlife Fund (WWF) • Yaa-Lengi Ngemi • Yoweri Museveni • Zairean Defense Minister Admiral Mudima • Zimbabwe Defense Forces • “Kimia I” and “Kimia II” operations • “peacekeeping” operations • “tribal dispute” • “Umoja Wetu”

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Filed Under: Africa and the World
Tags: "wildlife conservation" enterprises • Alison Des Forges • Amnesty International • Banro Corp. • Ben Affleck • brutalized • CARE International • Congo • Dan Gertler • Daryl Hannah • death camps • depopulation • diamond cartels • Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund • disenfranchised • Ewan McGregor • Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda • Gen. Laurent Nkunda • genocide • George Forrest • International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) • International Crises Group • International Rescue Committee • Jane Goodall Institute • John Bredenkamp • Keith Harmon Snow • Lockheed Martin Corp. • Lord's Resistance Army • Louis Michel • Maurice Tempelsman • Mia Farrow • modern day slavery • MONUC Public Information Office (PIO) • Moto Gold • Natalie Portman • National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) • North Kivu • Oxfam • Philipe De Moerloose • plunder • President Bill Clinton • President Juvenal Habyarimana • PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PWC) • Raise Hope for Congo • refugees • Rwanda • Rwandan Patriotic Army • Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) • Rwandan President Paul Kagame • Sam Jonah • Save the Children • Sudan • Titanium Resources Group • U.N. "peacekeeping" mission • U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) • Ugandan People's Defense Forces' (UPDF) • UNHCR • United Nations Development Program (UNDP) • United Nations Observers Mission for Congo (MONUC) • uprooted • Vangold Resources • Walter Kansteiner • Yoweri Museveni