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.

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.

* 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.

The capital of this Kongolese kingdom, Mbanza Kongo, later baptized as São Salvador by the Portuguese, is a town in northern Angola near the border with the DRC.

In addition to the well-publicised involvement in this trade of the Rwandan Defence Force ( RDF ), another important factor in the coltan re-export is that international dealers are under pressure not to buy from the DRC, thus increasing the incentive for DRC coltan to be re-exported as Rwanda's.

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

This law requires SEC-regulated companies to conduct third party audits of the company supply chains, determine whether any tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold ( together referred to as conflict minerals ) is made of ore mined / sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), and create a report ( available to the general public and SEC ) detailing the supply chain due diligence efforts undertaken and the results of the audit.

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 Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing, Dartford River Crossing ( DRC ) ( or simply the Dartford Crossing ) is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, connecting Dartford in the south to Thurrock in the north, via two road tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

Computational modeling — e. g. the DRC model of reading and word recognition proposed by Coltheart and colleagues — is another methodology.

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 lake is divided among four countries – Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), Tanzania and Zambia, with the DRC ( 40 %) and Tanzania ( 46 %) possessing the majority of the lake.

In computer science, dynamic recompilation ( sometimes abbreviated to dynarec or the pseudo-acronym DRC ) is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution.

In computer science, domain relational calculus ( DRC ) is a calculus that was introduced by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte as a declarative database query language for the relational data model.

where each X < sub > i </ sub > is either a domain variable or constant, and denotes a DRC formula.

The result of the query is the set of tuples X < sub > i </ sub > to X < sub > n </ sub > which makes the DRC formula true.

‘ Stop Raping our Greatest Resource ’ is a campaign initiated by the women of eastern DRC along with UNICEF and V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

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.

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.

* GSM World page on the DRC

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 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 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 researchers have carried out systematic studies on a broad range of disaster types, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous chemical incidents, and plane crashes.

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.

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.

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.

In May 2011, the international cooperation minister of DRC expressed his government's desire of an " orderly, progressive withdrawal " of MONUSCO due to " normalization " of DRC's relations with neighboring countries and containment of rebels to a " few isolated zones ".

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

In 2007 China agreed to lend the DRC US $ 5bn for two major transport infrastructure projects to link mineral-rich Katanga, specifically Lubumbashi, by rail to an ocean port ( Matadi ) and by road to the Kisangani river port, and to improve its links to the transport network of Southern Africa in Zambia.

In the face of reluctance by the international business community to invest in DRC, this represents a revitalisation of DRC's infrastructure much needed by its government.

The middle Congo River and its tributaries from the east are the principal domestic waterways in the DRC.

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

From its source to below Bangui, the Ubangi defines the boundary between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ).

After much international pressure, Uganda withdrew its troops from DRC in June 2003.

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.

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.

The DRC was charged with reviewing the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and recommending its amendment.

The Republic of the Congo ( or Congo-Brazzaville ) is an African nation with close musical ties to its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC, or Congo-Kinshasa ).

The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO ( previously known as United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo or MONUC, ), is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) which was established by the United Nations Security Council in resolutions 1279 ( 1999 ) and 1291 ( 2000 ) of the United Nations Security Council to monitor the peace process of the Second Congo War, though much of its focus subsequently turned to the Ituri conflict, the Kivu conflict and the Dongo conflict.

India made the decision to send its elite forces amidst rising concerns that Indian peace-keepers were getting caught in the cross-fire between DRC government troops and rebels.

The UN announcement came only a few days after India's decision to withdraw all of its four Mi-35 combat helicopters from MONUSCO and eventually cease peace-keeping operations in DRC.

The mission views the DRC as consisting of 6 sectors, each with its own staff headquarters.