Amid Asia's Crisis, Congo Gets Little Aid
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Even now, as thousands of children die each week from drinking dirty water and not having enough food, and the people of once-thriving communities hide like the hunted in the forests, the Congolese expect little from the world's big spenders.
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Thousands of people were killed and millions made homeless by recent tsunamis in southeastern Asia. The American Red Cross has set up a disaster relief fund.
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A global emergency fund set up to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally poor support" from some of the richest donors, aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.
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Though the United States is a top donor in international aid after disasters, it is the one of the smallest contributors for development.
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A peace summit aimed at ending fighting in Congo's blood-steeped eastern provinces of North and South Kivu opened on Sunday without the presence of President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda.
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Less violence and more generous donations appear to be helping efforts to save the silverback gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Thanks to a ceasefire engineered late last month between the government and the forces of dissident Army Gen.
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Â· 281,000 in need get no aid in life-sustaining tasks Â· Another 450,000 receive insufficient assistance
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WASHINGTON -- Countries large and small mobilized yesterday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunamis that spread devastation across South and Southeast Asia, but international officials said the millions of dollars in short-term assistance pledged so far fall way short of the billions needed to address one of the worst natural disasters in memory.
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Three of Africa's big crises -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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Fresh infusions of aid gave yet more push to the global relief effort for Asia as it confronted logistical breakdowns.
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A strict ban on granting new logging concessions in Congo's rainforest must be maintained while the poor African country struggles to recover from years of war, conservationists said on Saturday.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder finds international aid has got to Sri Lanka, but not necessarily to the people who need it most.
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From the destruction that swept over south Asia claiming more than 115,000 lives, hope is emerging in one stricken country that relief efforts are diverting a path to civil war.
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Rugged terrain, downed bridges, and the sheer volume of aid are slowing supply distribution.
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DR Congo President Kabila's party falls short of winning an overall majority of parliamentary seats, results show.
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Colonial rule, rapacious dictatorship and civil war have so ravaged Congo's economy and society that the streets of its cities swarm with homeless young people who numb their misery with drugs and alcohol.