Examples of using Tongo in English and their translations into Arabic
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MONUC applied immediate pressure on both sides, after which FARDC pulled back from Tongo, and CNDP withdrew, temporarily, from Rumangabo.
Separated women and children were reunified with their families. 10 housing disputes resolved in Tongo, 14 in Kono and 28 in Lunsar.
In August, the Pakistani aviation unit that was based in Hastings, and the Zambian battalion, previously deployed in Tongo, were repatriated.
It is also concerned that Sranan Tongo, which is spoken by the majority of the population, is not given sufficient prominence in education.
They also investigated reports of former child combatants who are still being used for forced labour in diamond mining operations in Tongo Fields, Kenema district.
For example, on 11 November, supporters of SLPP clashed with supporters of APC and PMDC in Tongo, Kenema District, resulting in injury to three people.
two former FDLR combatants and two local officials told the Group that FDLR and FARDC elements had collaborative relations in the Tongo area.
In January 2013, two former FDLR soldiers separately witnessed meetings between the Congolese army and FDLR in the Tongo area, at which operational information was exchanged.
These groups have been particularly assertive in Kono district and Tongo Fields, where, as mentioned above, they have attempted to expel residents who originally came from other districts.
With regard to the main diamond-producing areas, particularly at Tongo and Koidu, UNAMSIL estimates that approximately 50 per cent of all mining activities are being conducted without Government-issued licences.
Four former FDLR soldiers from Tongo and Bambo confirmed to the Group that Congolese army soldiers had transferred ammunition to FDLR with the instruction that it had to be used against M23.
The Committee invites the State party to encourage the learning of mother tongues, in particular Sranan Tongo, with a view to preserve the cultural and linguistic identity of the various ethnic groups.
In addition to instances of violence during the chieftaincy elections, there were fierce clashes between APC and SLPP supporters during a local council by-election held in Tongo, Kenema District, on 13 February 2010.
The Group interviewed 10 Congolese army soldiers in Tongo, North Kivu, who reported that the army and FDLR regularly met and exchanged operational information and stated that Congolese army soldiers supplied ammunition to FDLR.
(f) According to a recorded interview with a former Congolese CNDP combatant, a 16-year-old from Tongo," We used to get new recruits from Rwanda, we went to pick them up at border in park, by Sabinyo volcano.
the Sierra Leone police seem to be reluctant or unable to challenge the undermining of State authority by these groups, especially in Koidu and Tongo fields in the eastern region.
According to information received, the Zairian armed forces are setting up barriers in Sake, Tongo and Mabenga to prevent Rwandese refugees from entering the Northern Kivu interior,
FDLR officers and an FDLR collaborator told the Group that“Colonel” Jean-Baptiste Gakwerere, alias“Esdras Kaleb”, who commanded FDLR forces deployed in Tongo, was in charge of coordination between FDLR and Congolese army officers in the area.
At least 15 different languages are spoken, including six indigenous languages(Akurio, Carib, Trio, Wayana, Warao and Arowak), three Creole languages(Auka, Samaaka and Sranan Tongo) and four Asian languages(Sarnami Hindi, Surinamese Javanese, Hakka and Chinese).
Col. Faida Fidel Kamulete, the commander of the second battalion of the 601st regiment of the Congolese army, based at Tongo, denied such collaboration, but declared to the Group that the Congolese army and FDLR did not fight each other.