| April 22, 2008 | - 13 suspected sorcerers, accused of stealing or shrinking penises, were arrested in Congo after panic over penis thievery triggered a series of attempted lynchings. “It's real,” said Kinshasa merchant Alain Kalala. “Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny.”
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Reuters
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| February 3, 2008 | - Two earthquakes killed 30 people in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Death toll from Rwanda, Congo quakes hits 30
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| August 30, 2007 | - An envoy for the UN Human Rights Council announced that acts of sexual violence by armed groups in Congo “are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape” and that victims who survive being shot or stabbed in the genitals are often forced to eat excrement or the flesh of their murdered relatives with whom they have also been forced to have sex.
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Al Jazeera
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| November 13, 2006 | - There was a fistula epidemic in Congo; doctors said this was because after gang-raping women, men were shoving sticks, pipes, or gun barrels into their victims' vaginas.
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MSNBC
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| May 14, 2006 | - The United Nations said that 1,200 people were dying in Congo each day.
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The New York Times
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| January 7, 2006 | - Thirty-eight thousand people were dying each month in Congo, mostly from treatable diseases.
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News 24
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| December 1, 2005 | - In Gabon and Congo, scientists traced the origin of the Ebola virus to three different species of fruit bat; by stopping people from eating the bats, a scientist suggested, the spread of the virus could be slowed.
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LA Times
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| June 14, 2005 | - One thousand people were dying every day in Congo.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| March 2, 2005 | -
U.N. peacekeepers killed sixty Lendu in Congo in order to protect the Hema.
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New York Times
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| June 12, 2004 | -
Congo announced that it had put down a coup attempt by members of the presidential guard.
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New York Times
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| May 11, 2004 | - The United Nations was investigating accusations of sexual abuse by its staff in Bunia, Congo.
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Reuters
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| March 29, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
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Guardian
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| February 24, 2004 | - Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were said to be killing people, draining their blood, and stealing their genitals.
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BBC
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| January 24, 2004 | - There were new massacres in Congo.
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Reuters
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| December 5, 2003 | - A priest was on the run in Congo after killing 64 members of his congregation with a potion he said would give them salvation.
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Reuters
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| November 14, 2003 | - People were still dying of Ebola fever in the Congo.
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Associated Press
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| November 7, 2003 | -
Ebola fever was killing people in the Congo.
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Reuters
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| October 26, 2003 | - There were new reports of cannibalism in Congo,
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New York Times
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Rebels in Congo were accused of systematic rape, torture, and cannibalism in the northeast region of the country; some Pygmies were reportedly forced to eat their own relatives.
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| October 9, 2001 | - Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a tick-borne virus similar to Ebola, was killing
Afghan refugees and health workers.
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| July 17, 2001 | - People in Congo were still killing suspected witches.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Six Red Cross members were shot and hacked to death with machetes in Congo.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Members of the Hema and Lendu tribes were hacking one another to death with machetes in the Congo.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Congo's President Laurent Kabila was assassinated by one of his bodyguards; Congolese, who recently had taken to exposing their bellies as Kabila drove by, to signify their hunger, evidently were unfazed by the news.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Hutu militiamen killed ten people with machetes in a gorilla sanctuary in southeastern Congo.
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| September 12, 2000 | - The President of the Congo Republic was seen visiting the Congo gorilla exhibit at the Bronx zoo.
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