Another project was launched in the same year, which aims to link Burundi and Rwanda ( which also has no railways ) to the DRC and Zambia, and therefore to the rest of Southern Africa.

Bozizé has surprisingly good relations both with the DRC President Joseph Kabila and the former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.

Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.

Rich in minerals, the DRC has a difficult history of predatory mineral extraction, which has been at the heart of many struggles within the country for many decades, but particularly in the 1990s.

Ground transport in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) has always been difficult.

On the other hand, the DRC has thousands of kilometres of navigable waterways, and traditionally water transport has been the dominant means of moving around approximately two-thirds of the country.

The UN operates a large fleet of aircraft and helicopters, and compared to other African countries the DRC has a large number of small domestic airlines and air charter companies.

The DRC has more navigable rivers and moves more passengers and goods by boat and ferry than any other country in Africa.

Mbeki has mediated in difficult and complex issues on the African continent including Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ), Côte d ' Ivoire, and some important peace agreements.

Following the June 2003 UPDF withdrawal of troops from the DRC, limited nonlethal military assistance has restarted.

The DRC has blended its ethnic musical sources with Cuban rumba and meringue to give birth to Soukous.

The brigade established its headquarters in Yambio in South Sudan, close to the border with the DRC, and is commanded by a Ugandan officer ; a Congolese officer has oversight of intelligence operations.

The position of President in the DRC has existed since the first constitution-known as The Fundamental Law-of 1960.

Their territory in the DRC has no legal protections, and the boundaries that each band claims are not formally established.

The DRC government has asked for $ 10 billion in compensation.

In addition to the DRC, Tempelsman has played a key role in the diamond industries of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Sierra Leone.

To meet this goal of improving die yields, DRC has evolved from simple measurement and Boolean checks, to more involved rules that modify existing features, insert new features, and check the entire design for process limitations such as layer density.

The Regiment is currently a mechanised infantry regiment in the SANDF and has sent members as part of the Peace keeping contingent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) and Burundi.

The DRC has a unique type of the resource curse because the added factor of its political instability.

He has spoken extensively on what is needed for the DRC to make a successful transition to a functioning democracy.

* A VHF outbreak in the village of Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) that started in August, 2007, and that has killed 103 people ( 100 adults and three children ), has been shown to be caused ( at least partially ) by Ebola virus.

Rwanda is also alleged to be trading in fraudulently exported gold and diamonds from the DRC

Dynamic range compression, also called DRC ( often seen in DVD and car CD player settings ) or simply compression reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or " compressing " an audio signal's dynamic range.

The Luo ( also spelled Lwo ) are several ethnolinguistically related ethnic groups in Africa that inhabit an area ranging from South Sudan and Ethiopia, through northern Uganda and eastern Congo ( DRC ), into western Kenya, and the northern tip of Tanzania.

Avanti was founded when several ex-Cadence employees bought the startup ArcSys, which had previously merged with ISS, gaining Avanti its DRC / LVC tool Hercules ( including 3D silicon structure modeling ), then bought Compass Design Automation, which had fully integrated IC Design Flow and ASIC Libraries, especially its place and route tool, which Avanti reworked to create Saturn and Apollo II ; and it also bought TMA which brought their pioneering TCAD and Proteus Optical proximity correction tools.

The DRC also launched its own website and began setting up " Democratic Reform Party " constituency associations in anticipation of a snap election.

The Mbomou River or Bomu ( also spelled M ' bomou in French ) forms part of the boundary between the Central African Republic ( CAR ) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ).

The Ubangi, a tributary of the Congo, also serves as part of the border between the CAR and the DRC.

Their tensions with neighboring ethnic groups had been a contributing factor in the genesis of the First Congo War and they were also used by Rwanda to affect events across the border in the DRC.

Motivations of the 2009 Eastern Congo offensive are also entangled in the ongoing conflicts of the DRC.

and my personal responsibility for the political, social, economic and structural wrongs that have been done to many of you and the results which you and our whole country are still suffering, but vicariously I dare also to do that in the name of the NGK white DRC, of which I am a member, and for the Afrikaans people as a whole.

Two of the DRC's ten military districts were also given to the MLC, and Bemba was allowed to appoint and dismiss the foreign minister of the DRC.

FGH has also been in settlement negotiations with Congo DRC for ten years offering discounts of as much as sixty percent of the award.

Peter Ndlovu provided the funding for the senior national team's stay in DRC when they were preparing for the game in Kinshasa, and also helped them in Burkina Faso when he scored two brilliant goals. During the 2004 Africa cup nations Ndlovu scored three brilliant goals.

Dolby Digital Plus also includes comprehensive bitstream metadata for decoder control over output loudness ( via dialnorm ), downmixing, and reversible dynamic range control ( via DRC )

N ' djili Airport, also known as N ' Djili International Airport and Kinshasa International Airport, serves the city of Kinshasa and is the largest of the four international airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ).

The three above ethnic groups had a traditional rivalry with the Kakwa, who also occupy neighbouring parts of Uganda and DRC.

He had also previously been involved in negotiations for the formulation and implementation of The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the DRC, while Minister in 1999.

A Design Rule Check ( DRC ) is done to verify that the design meets foundry and other layout requirements.

The Disaster Research Center, or DRC, was the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters.

The Danish National Space Center ( DNSC ;, DRC ) is a Danish sector research Institute and a part of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.