For example Bukavu itself and Goma and other north-eastern towns are linked by paved road from the DRC border to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and most goods for these cities have been brought via this route in recent years.

In DRC, queries have the form:

UNICEF estimates that hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped since the conflict began in eastern DRC more than a decade ago.

They have been endorsed by the UN General Assembly, the African Commission on Human and People's Rights ( ACHPR ) and by the signatories to the 2006 Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region, which include Sudan, DRC and Uganda.

Lake Edward lies completely within the Virunga National Park ( Congo ) and the Queen Elizabeth National Park ( Uganda ) and does not have extensive human habitation on its shores, except at Ishango ( DRC ) in the north, home to a park ranger training facility.

Since 1999, about US $ 8. 73 billion have been spent to fund the UN peacekeeping effort in DRC.

Along with RDF regulars, MONUC troops have been fighting alongside Tutsi Rwandan soldiers infiltrated by Rwanda, with the Kabila government's support, into the national army, the Armed Forces of the DRC ( FARDC ).

Geographically, EU missions outside the Balkans and the DRC have taken place in Georgia, Indonesia, Sudan, Palestine, and Ukraine-Moldova.

* Some semiconductor companies have their own bespoke DRC software.

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.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) and the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe have not signed or ratified the charter and 8 countries have not ratified it.

Van Hoogstraten is reported to have arranged supplies for Zimbabwean forces in the DRC and to have underwritten arms deals for the Mugabe administration.

Fishing is carried on extensively along the rivers, but most of the catch is sold or bartered on the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) side of the Ubangi River.

With Kabila's success in the Congo, he no longer desired an alliance with the Tutsi-RPF Rwandan army and the Ugandan forces, and in August 1998 ordered both the Ugandans and Tutsi-Rwandan army out of the DRC.

However, the reform was originally rolled out and evaluated in four countries: DRC, Liberia, Somalia and Uganda.

First Quantum took out an action against the DRC government in the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration.

In June 1999 James Kazini, the commander of UPDF forces in the DRC, ignored the protests of the RCD-K leadership and created a new “ province ” of Ituri out of eastern Orientale Province.

After Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, Etsou spoke out against what he described as the strong-arm tactics of the new leader, Laurent Kabila, the father of the current president of the DRC, Joseph Kabila, who took power in 2001 following his father's assassination.

MLC controlled the northern part of DRC and its rebels were stationed on the other side of the Ubangi river from Bangui.

The DRC lies on the Equator, with one-third of the country to the north and two-thirds to the south.

The DRC is embarking on the establishment of special economic zones to encourage the revival of its industry.

* GSM World page on the DRC

* Lake Albert: two small ports on the DRC side, Kisenye near Bunia and Mahadi-Port in the north can link to Ugandan ports at Butiabo and Pakwach ( served by Uganda Railways ) on the Albert Nile, which is navigable as far as Nimule in southern Sudan.

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.

Both these depend ultimately on plotting or making assumption concerning the from of DRC.

The dynamic reaction cell was introduced by Perkin-Elmer on their Elan DRC ( followed by Elan DRC II and Elan DRC-e ) instrument and is located before the quadrupole in the ICP-MS device.

The DRC formed a coalition with Clark's Tories in the House, which was widely seen as an attempt by Clark to reunite the Canadian right on his terms.

At the same time, under the terms of the 1988 Act the DRC company was liquidated and management of the crossing was contracted to Le Crossing Company Limited on behalf of the Highways Agency.

The Congo Grey parrot is found on the islands of Príncipe and Bioko and is distributed from southeastern Ivory Coast to western Kenya, northwest Tanzania, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), and northern Angola.

The DRC formed a coalition with Clark's Tories in the House, which was widely seen as an attempt by Clark to reunite the Canadian right on his terms.

DRC has also done research on civil disturbances and riots, including the 1992 Los Angeles unrest.

This sparked a diplomatic row between the governments of the DRC and Uganda, with both militaries making a show of force along their border, while the Congolese ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General demanding that an economic embargo be placed on Uganda in retaliation.

Four types of rolling stock run on PNR's lines: the locomotives, the Commex express cars, baggage cars and DRC railcars.

Two weeks later, on September 24, the DRC members entered into a coalition with the Progressive Conservatives, which was intended to be PC leader Joe Clark's framework for proving that the two parties could be united on his terms rather than Day's.

In March 2002, Day lost that leadership race to Stephen Harper, and on April 10, most of the DRC members returned to the Alliance caucus, terminating their coalition agreement with the PCs after Clark rebuffed Harper's attempts to seek a greater union between the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives.

In April 2008 Joyce became the first European parliamentarian to be granted an opportunity to address the newly-formed Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when he visited the DRC as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on the Great Lakes Region of Africa with other members of the group.

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.

Estimated annual sales of DRC software are in the $ 200 to $ 300 million range.

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

Tanzanian railways use metre gauge, although TAZARA and other neighbouring countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) use the Cape gauge, leading to some potential difficulties.

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.

On February 24, 2000 with the resolution 1291, the U. N. Security Council authorized the deployment of a maximum of 5537 military personnel in the DRC, including 500 military observers.

He worked with many of Zaire's ( now the Democratic Republic of Congo ) greats, including: Les Quatre Etoiles-the renowned DRC group consisting of Soukous greats Bopol, Wuta Mayi, Syran and Nyboma ; Pepe Kalle, Sam Mangwana, Tshala Muana, Mbilia Bel, and others.

The cost of a single site license of semiconductor EDA software, including DRC components, may exceed $ 1 million.

* 9 September – an Antonov operated by Air Kasai in the DRC crashes 50 km north of Brazzaville killing 14 including 4 crew on a flight from Buendé to Kinshasa

Much of the northern DRC, including Orientale Province, was occupied and under the nominal control of the invading Uganda People's Defense Force ( UPDF ) and the Ugandan-backed Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy ( RCD-K ) under the leadership of Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.

During Matungulu's term in office, the DRC re-established co-operation with its main multilateral and bilateral development partners, including the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank, all of which had deserted the country under the Mobutu regime.

Salim Saleh has featured in controversies regarding corruption, including being implicated by the UN Security Council for plundering natural resources in Congo ( DRC ).