The United Nations Special Envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Olusegun Obasanjo, has arrived in Kinshasa seeking to end the renewed fighting in the east. The visit comes as rebels take another town near the Ugandan border and relief official

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 31 October 2007 The Economic Community of Central African States has named Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to be its next head. Analysts say Mr. Kabila, who has been accused of human rights abuses and corru

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By Kari Barber Goma 02 January 2008 Much effort is made to stop the recruitment of child soldiers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but aid agencies say thousands of children still fight on the front lines of the rebel war. United Nations offi

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The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed at the large numbers of women who continue to be victims of rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UNHCR says more than one third of recorded cases of rape, in the

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AS IT IS 2014-05-12 Music You Wont Hear Anywhere Else Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program we will hear music from one of the oldest neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisian

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By Kari Barber Dakar 25 September 2007 The World Health Organization says eight new cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This brings the number of confirmed cases to 17 since the new outbreak was fi

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By Kari Barber Dakar 24 September 2007 Thousands of displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have in recent days fled camps in search of safer and better places to live. Many are arriving in a refugee site called Bulengo, afraid to re

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The U.N. Security Council is continuing to weigh whether to authorize a request from the secretary-general for an additional 3,000 peacekeepers to reinforce the U.N.'s overstretched peacekeeping mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. F

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

DRC Misses Deadline for High Speed Internet Officially, the Democratic Republic Congo is about four months behind schedule to connect to the West African Cable System (WACS). This is not the first time the DRC has missed out on a high speed Internet

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Hollywood Actor and Director Ben Affleck was in Washington this week, pushing for greater US engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has founded an organization called The Eastern Congo Initiative. Affleck says the DRC is at a critical jun

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Chinese President Xi Jinping says cooperation among BRICS countries is conducive to a more balanced world economy and the improvement of global economic governance. He made the remarks in an interview ahead of the fifth BRICS summit scheduled for lat

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

By Kari Barber Dakar 25 October 2007 Human rights group Amnesty International released a report Thursday calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to rein in its security troops and prosecute those accused of torture, murder and r

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By Selah Hennessy Goma 22 December 2007 A summit has been called in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to try to bring peace to the war-torn country. Conference organizers say they hope the meeting will initiate a dialogue between the army, reneg

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The African Union has condemned the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and is launching a 'quiet diplomacy' initiative aimed at bringing all parties involved to the negotiating table. VOA's Peter Heinlein has more from AU headquarters

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

By Selah Hennessy Dakar 06 November 2007 United Nations officials say Congolese soldiers have obstructed food distribution to displaced families in the Democratic Republic of Congo by trying to register their own families for U.N. aid. Dozens were in

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By Selah Hennessy Goma 13 December 2007 The Congolese army battled with dissident fighters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for control of the strategically important town Rigari. Rebel fighters, loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda, have

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is accusing the military of neighboring Rwanda of participating in attacks on its forces in eastern Congo in recent days, and of preparing a larger assault. Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in N

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Seven African governments and some of the world's largest banks and construction firms are meeting in London to plan the biggest hydro-electric power project in the world. Supporters say the $80 billion project on the Congo River could double the amo

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It paved the way for the three decades-long rule of President Mobutu. They didn't come any greedier in Africa. It's estimated he stole around half of the 12 billion dollars his country received in aid. The West helped to keep him in power. A people a

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