Family planning success in two cities in Zaire [PDF]
Both projects described here, Matadi and Kananga, helped health providers in those two cities offer clinical family planning services. But their approaches differed markedly.
Bertrand, Jane T., Brown, Judith E.
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South Kivu: identity, territory, and power in the eastern Congo [PDF]
, 2013 This Usalama report by Koen Vlassenroot outlines the historical dynamics behind the armed movements in South Kivu, focusing on the period before and leading up to the First Congo War.
Vlassenroot, Koen
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Economic integration in the lower Congo region : opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville bottleneck [PDF]
This working paper assesses cross-border economic integration in the Lower Congo region. It focuses on the Kinshasa-Brazzaville conurbation, which is projected to become Africa's largest urban area by 2025, and is already serving as the gateway to large ...
Brulhart, Marius, Hoppe, Mombert
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FOOD SECURITY IN KINSHASA, COPING WITH ADVERSITY [PDF]
Food Security and Poverty,
Tollens, Eric
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Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State [PDF]
Wherever one looks, many elements conspire to suggest that the Democratic Republic of Congo should have collapsed some time ago under the multiple assaults of its own inadequacies as a state, the extreme heterogeneity and polarization of its populations,
Pierre Englebert
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A global approach for a dictionary of Lingála: from the localization of software to a lemmatization strategy [PDF]
, 2011 Lingála is the national language spoken in Kinshasa, the capital of the country. Even if this language is going through a straightforward empowering process, its progress is still hindered by the lack of terminological and lexicographic tools; hence the ...
Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu
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Fertility in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
In this paper we examine and discuss estimates of fertility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Currently, the United Nations estimates that the country's total fertility rate is 6.7, and national sources provide an even higher estimate of 7.3.
Shapiro, David, Tambashe, B. Oleko
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Neurological, Cognitive, and Psychological Findings Among Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease From the 1995 Ebola Outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross-sectional Study. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundClinical sequelae of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have not been described more than 3 years postoutbreak. We examined survivors and close contacts from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and determined ...
Bjornson, Zach +15 more
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Pan-African Journal of Health and Environmental ScienceBackground: Kinshasa’s urban and peri-urban areas have limited access to water, hygiene, and sanitation. SDG 6 calls for universal and equitable access to WASH by 2030.
Gilbert Nganga +2 more
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Human Security: Does Normative Europe Need a New Strategic Narrative? [PDF]
, 2007 Alongside a sustained debate about the role of the EU in the international system and the nature of its power as an external actor, foreign and security policy making continues to reflect an awkward mixture of civilian, military and normative instruments,
Martin, Mary.
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