International Business News - COG http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The International Criminal Court postponed a pretrial war crimes hearing for former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba because one of the judges cannot take part. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/hague-court-delays-hearing-for-ex-congo-leader.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:45:14 EST Rebels in Congo have pulled out of a town on the Ugandan border they captured in fighting that forced 10,000 people to flee, the U.N. and a spokesman for the insurgents said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/congo-rebels-say-pulled-out-of-eastern-town.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:09:34 EST The British Red Cross has canceled its winter fundraising ball--and that's just the tip of the iceberg. British charities are expecting a fundraising shortfall next year as corporations donate less, investments fall in value and fundraising costs rise during an economic downturn, a large survey published Monday found. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/uk-charities-brace-for-2009-fundraising-shortfall.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:41:36 EST The United Nations' special envoy to Congo chided Congo's main rebel leader during a second round of peace talks Saturday for breaking a cease-fire, according to video footage taken inside the closed-door meeting. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/185791-aptopix-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/special-un-envoy-meets-with-congo-rebel-leader.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/special-un-envoy-meets-with-congo-rebel-leader.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:54:32 EST Rebels captured two border posts and a town in eastern Congo, increasing their stranglehold over the region as thousands of refugees flee into neighboring Uganda, officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/184474-aptopix-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/mass-flight-threatens-to-spread-disease-in-congo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/mass-flight-threatens-to-spread-disease-in-congo.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:52:55 EST Two Congolese warlords pleaded not guilty Thursday at the International Criminal Court to charges of murder, rape and using child soldiers during a deadly attack on a village in 2003. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/congo-suspects-plead-not-guilty-to-war-crimes.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:33:50 EST The U.N. refugee agency says 13,000 Congolese civilians have fled to Uganda over the past two days. UNHCR said Thursday the new arrivals mean 27,000 Congolese have fled into Uganda since August. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/civilians-flee-as-congo-rebels-attack-militia.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:55:30 EST Two mass graves containing as many as 2,000 bodies have been discovered in eastern Congo, government officials said Wednesday. Justice Minister Luzolo Bambi told reporters the graves were found Saturday in the town of Bukavu in a plot of land formerly owned by a member of the Congolese Rally for Democracy, or RCD, a Rwandan-backed rebel group. At one point, the RCD controlled much of eastern Congo, but it became a political party in 2003. Many of its top leaders were integrated into the government, taking jobs as vice presidents and army chiefs. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/2-mass-graves-discovered-in-congo.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:13:36 EST U.N. officials have opened investigations into whether war crimes have been committed in eastern Congo, saying they have alarming evidence of targeted killings and possibly massacres of civilians. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182479-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/un-investigating-possible-war-crimes-in-congo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/un-investigating-possible-war-crimes-in-congo.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:33:02 EST Deep in the rebel-held forests of Congo's mighty Mikeno volcano, a world away from this Central African nation's latest fighting, a wild 440-pound mountain gorilla serenely rips a meal of bamboo stalks from the moist dark earth. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182086-congo-gorillas.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/congo-gorillas-survive-in-rebel-held-forest.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/congo-gorillas-survive-in-rebel-held-forest.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:21:43 EST A rebel offensive to expel some of the perpetrators of Rwanda's 1994 genocide forced more than 3,000 civilians to flee eastern Congo to neighboring Uganda in a single day, the insurgents and U.N. officials said early Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182632-aptopix-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/thousands-seek-aid-in-rebel-held-congo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/thousands-seek-aid-in-rebel-held-congo.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:21:50 EST A human rights group said Tuesday the Congolese government has killed an estimated 500 opposition members and alleged that Congo's president himself gave orders to crush opponents. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/rights-group-500-congo-opposition-members-killed.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:34:05 EST The leader of a rebellion in eastern Congo wants to merge his troops into the government army as part of a peace deal that would include protections for the African nation's ethnic minorities, a U.N. envoy said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/un-envoy-says-congo-rebels-want-to-join-army.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:51:40 EST Government soldiers went on an overnight looting and shooting spree in a sprawling Congolese refugee camp, stealing from hungry and traumatized people who have fled fighting with rebels in the country's east, witnesses said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/181278-aptopix-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/refugees-say-troops-loot-congo-camp.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/refugees-say-troops-loot-congo-camp.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:46:15 EST President-elect Barack Obama has chosen New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be commerce secretary, adding a prominent Hispanic and one-time Democratic rival to his expanding Cabinet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180835-obama-cabinet.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/official-richardson-to-be-commerce-secretary.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/official-richardson-to-be-commerce-secretary.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:45:14 EST An aid group on Sunday sent the first medical supplies to a ravaged eastern Congo since fighting ended there, as officials in the provincial capital of Goma clamped down on the illegal sale of food aid in the city's bustling markets. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/medical-aid-resumes-behind-congolese-rebel-lines.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:47:32 EST Surrounded by insurgent fighters, the bespectacled leader of Congo's rebels held his first public rally Saturday in newly conquered territory, telling the few thousand people who showed up: "Do not be afraid." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180406-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/congo-rebels-to-hold-rally-in-seized-territory.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/congo-rebels-to-hold-rally-in-seized-territory.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:26:21 EST The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to protect its endangered mountain gorillas. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/rangers-return-to-protect-congo-mountain-gorillas.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:06:44 EST Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civilians in eastern Congo. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/179575-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/un-expects-new-peacekeepers-in-congo-in-weeks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/un-expects-new-peacekeepers-in-congo-in-weeks.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:40:39 EST His home was looted by wild government soldiers still pillaging this empty hilltop town. His fields are at the mercy of armed militias. And somewhere in the countryside, a rebel army is digging in. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/178941-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/in-congos-remote-hills-a-struggle-to-survive.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/in-congos-remote-hills-a-struggle-to-survive.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:38 EST