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Congo Rebel Attack in Katanga Province Leaves 35 Dead, UN Says
2013-03-24 18:07:24| Real Estate - Topix.net
At least 35 people died in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday when a separatist militia attacked the capital of copper-rich Katanga province, the United Nations mission in the country said.
Total approves $10 billion Congo project, sees 2015 startup
2013-03-23 08:49:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Moho Nord joint development is one of a string of African projects that Total is banking on to help it boost its oil production by 25 percent over the next five years, with growth accelerating after 2015 to top 3 million barrels of oil and gas a day for the first time.
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Total approves $10 billion Congo project, sees 2015 startup
2013-03-23 08:00:21| Energy - Topix.net
The Moho Nord joint development is one of a string of African projects that Total is banking on to help it boost its oil production by 25 percent over the next five years, with growth accelerating after 2015 to top 3 million barrels of oil and gas a day for the first time.
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Uganda Named in the Plunder of DR Congo Timber
2013-03-19 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Vision: While on a visit to Bweramule, Rwebisengo in Ntoroko district early last year, a youthful man sprung from his watchtower nestled under a tree shade. Pacing fast, as if he had springs in his legs, he accosted me with a barrage of questions, one after another, without giving me a chance to answer: "Why are you taking those photographs? And where are you taking them?" I had landed on a huge consignment of timber in the district bordering DR Congo that had a huge signpost 'for construction of Rwebisengo...
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Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest
2013-02-21 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict. A new report by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), dramatically entitled The Seeds of Destruction, announces that new palm oil plantations in the Congo rainforest will soon increase fivefold to half a million hectares, an area nearly the size of Delaware. But conservationists warn that by ignoring the lessons of palm oil in Southeast Asia, this trend could...
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