Among his company were J. Richard Greenwell, M. Justin Wilkinson, and Congolese zoologist Marcellin Agnagna.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.

Forestry which led Congolese exports before the discovery of oil, continues to generate 10 % of export earnings, although high transportation costs, high wages, and low productivity have hurt the forestry industry in recent years.

In February 2002, the Belgian government apologised to the Congolese people, and admitted to a " moral responsibility " and " an irrefutable portion of responsibility in the events that led to the death of Lumumba ".

They quickly occupied two thirds of The Congo, but the Congolese army, led by Mobutu, was able to reconquer the entire territory in 1965.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903 ( including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese people ).

The Congo Reform Movement, which included among its members Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Booker T. Washington, and Bertrand Russell, led a vigorous international movement against the mistreatment of the Congolese population of the Congo.

In 1953, the Congolese music scene began to differentiate itself with the formation of African Jazz ( led by Joseph " Grand Kalle " Kabasele ), the first full-time orchestra to record and perform, and the debut of fifteen-year-old guitarist François Luambo Makiadi ( aka Franco ).

Former supporters of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, led by a " General Olenga ," opposed the American-backed government and were attempting to lead the Eastern Province into secession.

On June 3, 2004, protestors in several Congolese cities took to the streets to demonstrate against the United Nations for failing to prevent Bukavu from falling to Rwandan-backed RCD forces led by General Nkunda.

Leoninos broke up in 1965, but were followed by Os Úntués, led by Leonel Aguiar, who added American, Argentinian, Congolese and Cuban musical influences, and introduced the electric guitar and other innovations.

The coalition was led by Bernard Kolélas, who was also the leader of the coalition's largest party, the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development ( MCDDI ).

* Dieudonné Kalilulika ( born 1983 ), Congolese football player

Fafa de Molokai, Debs Debaba, King Kester Emeneya ( 1977 – 1982 ), Koffi Olomide, as a singer, ( 1978 – 1979 ), Djuna Djanana ( 1978 – 1981 ), Dindo Yogo ( 1979 – 1981 ), Maray-Maray ( 1980 – 1984 ), Lidjo Kwempa ( 1982 – 2001 ), Reddy Amissi ( 1982 – 2001 ), Stino Mubi ( 1983 – 2001 ) are among the currently well-known Congolese musicians who have served at one time or another with Viva la Musica.

* Baraka, a town in the eastern Congolese province of Sud-Kivu on Lake Tanganyika.

The 1996 book Congo Journey, by British travel writer Redmond O ' Hanlon, describes in some detail his journey through Congo to Lake Tele in search of Mokèlé-mbèmbé, as well as giving a rich description of local fauna, flora and Congolese cultural practices and relations with the indigenous Pygmy peoples.

Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote.

Had they been truly ruthless, the Belgians might have exploited the Congolese without compassion.

The average Congolese can do little more than puzzle out the meaning of `` la chatte '' and `` le chien '' and write his name.

First, there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.

If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.

Vague in wording, it called for withdrawal of Belgian troops and authorized the Secretary-General `` to take the necessary steps to provide the ( Congolese ) Government with such military assistance as may be necessary, until, through the efforts of the Congolese Government with the technical assistance of the United Nations, the national security forces may be able, in the opinion of the Government, to meet fully their tasks.

Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.

urged the reconvention of the Congolese Parliament and the reorganization of the army.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

Crimes conducted by Patassé ’ s militias and Congolese soldiers during this period are now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, who wrote that " sexual violence appears to have been a central feature of the conflict ", having identified more than 600 rape victims.

Most of the crimes were committed by Congolese MLC soldiers, but Bozizé's rebels, including elements from Chad, were also responsible.

A UN human rights expert reported in July 2007 that sexual atrocities against Congolese women go " far beyond rape " and include sexual slavery, forced incest, and cannibalism.

This may be done in desperation, as during peacetime cannibalism is much less frequent ; at other times, it is consciously directed at certain groups believed to be relatively helpless, such as Congo Pygmies, even considered subhuman by some other Congolese.

The Belgians and Congolese political leaders held a Round Table Conference in Brussels beginning on 18 January 1960.

The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.

On 5 July 1960 a military mutiny by Congolese soldiers against their European officers broke out in the capital and rampant looting began.

After some reverses, UN and Congolese government forces succeeded in recapturing the breakaway provinces of South Kasai on 30 December 1961, and Katanga on 15 January 1963.

European mercenaries, US, and Belgian troops were called in by the Congolese government to defeat the rebellion.

These Hutu militia forces soon allied with the Zairian armed forces ( FAZ ) to launch a campaign against Congolese ethnic Tutsis in eastern Zaire.

While the six African governments involved in the war signed a ceasefire accord in Lusaka in July 1999, the Congolese rebels did not and the ceasefire broke down within months.

Beebe's observations of sexual dimorphism in pheasants during this expedition led him to become the first biologist to correctly understand the mechanism by which this aspect of sexual selection operates.

Current conservation efforts are supported by the Defense Logistics Agency and the U. S. Navy and implemented by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, The Urban Wildlands Group, and The Butterfly Project led by biologist Jana J. Johnson, M. S., Ph. D at Moorpark College.

Founded in 1985 by a group of biologists led by Dr. L. David Mech world renowned wolf biologist, the Center opened in June 1993.

Jim, who was part of the think tank led by American biologist and researcher Gregory Pincus that developed the first reliable hormonal contraceptive, the pill, was later a member of the in-vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) team led by Professor Carl Wood, where he provided the expertise for the timing of the egg pick-up.

From 1970 she had begun researching a major biography of writer and biologist E. L. Grant Watson, which led to the publication of Descent of Spirit in 1990, but at her death in 1991 the project remained uncompleted.

The club is led by Verena, and consists of several other girls, including Theresa " Tweety " Goldberg ( Matarazzo ), a bulimic who self-induces vomiting by drinking ipecac syrup and plans to be a child psychologist ; and Maureen " Momo " Haines ( Merritt Wever ), a well-spoken science nerd and aspiring biologist.

Konstantin Mereschcowsky ( 1855-1921 ) (, also transliterated Konstantin Sergeevich Merezhkovsky, Konstantin Sergivich Merezhkovsky, Constantin Sergeevič Mérejkovski, Constantin Sergejewicz Mereschcowsky, and Konstantin Sergejewicz Mereschkovsky ) was a prominent Russian biologist, botanist and advocate of eugenics active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis – that larger, more complex cells evolved from the symbiotic relationship between less complex ones.

Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS ( born 17 June 1940 ) is a molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian genes.

The effort at integrating RFT into evolution science has been led by, among others, Steven C. Hayes, a co-developer of RFT, and David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University.