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  • Monitor Uganda: Kasese Feels Pinch of Evictions From DRC

    At least 150,000 people, residents of Kasese District who had crossed to the Democratic Republic of Congo but were evicted, have started feeling the pinch of expulsion, Daily Monitor has learnt.

  • November 19
  • New Times Congo-Kinshasa: Spain, France Probed on Links to Rwandan Militia

    The UN's Eminent Group of Expert report on rebel militias in the DRC is expected to reveal Spanish and French connections to the FDLR militia, The New Times has been informed.

  • New Vision Central Africa: UN Condemns LRA on Civilian Attacks

    THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan.

  • New Times Congo-Kinshasa: Gold Still Funds Rwandan Rebels, Says UN Expert

    Dinesh Mahtani, the coordinator of the UN Eminent Group of Experts report on militia groups' activities in DRC has told the BBC that almost 40 tonnes of gold is smuggled out of the country annually.

  • UN News Congo-Kinshasa: UN Blue Helmets Help Passengers in Country When Plane Overshoots Runway

    United Nations peacekeepers helped passengers and provided emergency medical treatment today after an airliner with 117 passengers on board over-ran the airstrip in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

  • UN News Rwanda: Leaders of Rebel Militia Arrested for Atrocities Committed in DR Congo - UN

    19 November 2009 - The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the arrest of two leaders of a rebel Rwandan militia on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and war crimes in the eastern region of the DRC.

  • U.S. House Congo-Kinshasa: Rep. McDermott Introduces Conflict Minerals Trade Act [press release]

    Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), flanked by leaders from World Vision, the Enough Project, Global Witness, and the Information Technology Industry Council, unveiled legislation he will introduce in the U.S. House of Representatives today to help stop trade in conflict minerals that is sustaining a brutal war of unfathomable atrocities, especially against women, in the Congo. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) ...

  • Monitor Uganda: Nine LRA Fighters Surrender

    Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have returned to Gulu, northern Uganda.

  • New Vision East Africa: Unbs Fails to Monitor Congo, Sudan Borders

    THE Uganda National Bureau of Standards does not have enough staff to monitor goods entering the country on the Sudan and the Democratic Republic Congo borders.

  • New Vision Uganda: Congolese Refugees Ask to Return Home

    Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home.

  • November 18
  • UN News Central Africa: UN to Help Protect Civilians From Ugandan Rebels

    The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.

  • New Times Rwanda: Germany Arrests Top Rebel Leaders

    Following yesterday's arrest of FDLR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy, Straton Musoni, in Germany, government has welcomed the move, saying the two are part of a terrorist group that has not only committed crimes in Rwanda, but also in the DRC.

  • UN News Congo-Kinshasa: Angola Seeks Return of Refugees

    Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.

  • IPS Congo-Kinshasa: Water Shortages Hamper Urban Areas

    Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.

  • IWPR Congo-Kinshasa: Calls for LRA to Face Charges

    Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are accused of perpetrating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

  • United Nation Sudan: Security Council Press Statement on Lord's Resistance Army [press release]

    The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the continued and recently increasing attacks carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan, which have resulted in the death, abduction and displacement of thousands of civilians.

  • November 17
  • UN News Congo-Kinshasa: Report Condemns Trial in Military Court Over Killing of UN Journalist

    A United Nations report released today criticizes the judicial process in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) military court in connection with the trial of a murdered Congolese journalist, including the alleged bribery of the presiding judges.

  • New Times Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila Wants Monuc Out - Reports

    Reports indicate that DRC President, Joseph Kabila wants the UN mission which has been in his country for nearly 10 years to start planning an exit strategy "as soon as possible."

  • November 16
  • IWPR Congo-Kinshasa: Street Kids Policy Change Urged

    Activists in the southern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, have urged the authorities to try to return shegues, or street children, currently in care to their parents.

  • November 13
  • New Times Rwanda: CNDP Chief Resigns

    Désiré Kamanzi, head of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), an ex- rebel group-turned political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resigned recently.

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