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Officer Posted 'In-Charge' Of A Post Can Discharge Its Statutory Functions: Karnataka High Court Reiterates
4 days, 5 hours ago

Officer Posted 'In-Charge' Of A Post Can Discharge Its Statutory Functions: Karnataka High Court Reiterates

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has recently said that an officer posted as in-charge of a post can discharge the functions/duties of the said post, including statutory functions. Justice C M Poonacha held thus while dismissing a plea by Prakash Ramachandra Hegde, who had questioned the order of Assistant Registrar Co-Operative Societies, Kumta, who being the officiating/in-charge officer had on November …

Order Post Managing Director Drcs Court Reiterates Kumta
Deep-rooted ties firm footing for DRC's modernization
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Deep-rooted ties firm footing for DRC's modernization

China Daily  

Journalists attend a news conference ahead of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY Themed "Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future", the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has brought together African leaders, including Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix …

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Deep-rooted ties firm footing for DRC's modernization
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Deep-rooted ties firm footing for DRC's modernization

China Daily  

Journalists attend a news conference ahead of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY Themed "Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future", the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has brought together African leaders, including Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix …

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Gunfire heard in DRC’s biggest prison after attempted jailbreak
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunfire heard in DRC’s biggest prison after attempted jailbreak

Al Jazeera  

Authorities say the security forces have the situation under control, but the number of casualties is unclear. The government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo says inquiries are under way after an attempted jailbreak overnight from the country’s biggest prison. Heavy gunfire rang out early Monday morning from Makala central prison in the capital Kinshasa as inmates tried to …

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In DRC’s Ituri, women coffee farmers wrestle with an uncertain future
5 months ago

In DRC’s Ituri, women coffee farmers wrestle with an uncertain future

Al Jazeera  

Local cooperatives are stepping in to support vulnerable farmers, mostly women, struggling in conflict-ridden eastern DRC. Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Early each morning, 50-year-old Kavira Matsetse walks for two hours to reach her coffee plantation in Biakato, in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province. The conflict has also made it difficult to gauge the exact …

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Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates Constituency By-Election Set for Monday
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates Constituency By-Election Set for Monday

Deccan Chronicle  

NALAGONDA: Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates Constituency By-Election Set for MondayAll is set for voting for the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda graduates constituency Legislative Council bypoll on Monday. Polling would be conducted at 97 polling stations in Nalgonda district, 71 in Suryapet, 37 in Yadadri-Bhogir, 118 in Khammam, 55 in Badadri-Kothagudem, 16 in Bhupalapally, 17 in Mulugu, 36 in Mahaboobabad, 59 in Warangal, 67 in Hanmakonda, …

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Who was behind the DRC’s attempted coup, and were Americans involved?
7 months ago

Who was behind the DRC’s attempted coup, and were Americans involved?

Al Jazeera  

The attackers were led by Christian Malanga, a politician and former military officer based in the US. In a livestream posted on Facebook during Sunday’s attack, Malanga threatened the president and chanted “New Zaire!” The DRC was formerly called Zaire. “Instead of attacking strategic sites like the two airports in Kinshasa, the military camps and the RTNC, the Malanga commando …

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DRC’s President Tshisekedi reshuffles cabinet ahead of election
1 year, 8 months ago

DRC’s President Tshisekedi reshuffles cabinet ahead of election

Al Jazeera  

Analyst says the overhaul of the DRC’s 57 member-cabinet just months before the election is a ‘deeply political shuffle’. The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country’s former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was imprisoned for more than 10 years for war crimes, as defence minister in a sweeping government reshuffle. His appointment was part …

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Photos: Scientists fight to protect DR Congo rainforest
2 years, 3 months ago

Photos: Scientists fight to protect DR Congo rainforest

Al Jazeera  

A tower bristling with sensors juts above the canopy in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, measuring carbon dioxide emitted from the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest. Scientists at the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the DRC’s Tshopo province are studying the rainforest’s role in climate change – a subject that received scant attention until recently. Sibret said more time is required …

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DRC’s forests-for-oil sale reeks of neocolonialism
2 years, 4 months ago

DRC’s forests-for-oil sale reeks of neocolonialism

Al Jazeera  

Forests are losing out to fossil fuels and foreign finance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On July 28, the country’s government auctioned 27 oil blocks and three gas blocks overlapping with some of the world’s most sensitive ecosystems, after signalling its intent in April. Feeding Europe’s energy scramble The faux nationalism of DRC’s government is the kind that …

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The failed ‘state of siege’ in eastern DRC should not be extended
2 years, 7 months ago

The failed ‘state of siege’ in eastern DRC should not be extended

Al Jazeera  

There are much more promising strategies that could help bring sustainable peace to the region. Since then, the Congolese army, Ugandan forces, and the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, have all been playing their part in a big push against the region’s myriad armed groups. A summit chaired by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on April 21 agreed to deploy a …

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After air raids, Uganda sends troops into DRC to hunt ADF
3 years ago

After air raids, Uganda sends troops into DRC to hunt ADF

Al Jazeera  

The neighbouring countries have launched a joint operation against the armed group which they accuse of massacring civilians. DRC army spokesman Leon-Richard Kasonga said in a statement that “for the time being, Congolese special forces supported by Ugandan special units will carry out search and control operations to clear and secure ADF positions affected by this morning’s strikes.” “This part …

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Uganda: DRC’s reparation claims ‘dangerously disproportionate’
3 years, 8 months ago

Uganda: DRC’s reparation claims ‘dangerously disproportionate’

Al Jazeera  

Uganda says the more than $13bn in reparations sought by DRC over Ituri conflict could ruin its economy. Uganda has told the International Court of Justice the billions of dollars in reparations sought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the former’s role in the conflict in the latter’s Ituri province could ruin its economy. The DRC’s “claims are …

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