Eastern Congo: Conflict Persists as Stakeholders Seek Resolution
Amidst continuing violence by a number of active militias in North and South Kivu, most notably the M23, experts say leaders in Kinshasa, Kigali and the rest of the region must work together to implement a sustainable conflict-resolution strategy for lasting peace.
Photo: Phil Moore/IRIN
A displaced Congolese man sits in a classroom of the Katoyi primary school being used by displaced people for shelter in Masisi territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province on June 4, 2012.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson has called on the Rwandan government to publicly denounce the M23 rebel militia which is fighting in eastern ... Read more »
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Rwanda is the culprit and must face the consequence, Rwanda has been caught helping a terrorist organisation and must be held accountable. To the ICC, please.
Strange resolution where the victim is penalised as the agressor! Kagame has managed to convice his mentors of his lie of congolo-congo crisis. kagame knows once Peace is restaured in Kivu, that will be his end, as westerners will starr srutinise his methods of gorverning! look the astounding silence of the world in ingabire saga! again Kagame want all inquisitive Hutus to be barred from Rwanda only docile ones must be of service to Kagamania. this situation will not continue for ever, the after Kagame and his cronies will be much worst than the Genocide that allowed him to take power.
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