Urgent Summit to Discuss DR Congo Conflict

An emergency Great Lakes regional summit has been called to discuss the deteriorating security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Uganda Calls Regional Summit on Fighting

    Sudan Tribune, 2 September 2013

    Uganda has called an emergency meeting of the extraordinary summit of the International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) to discuss the deteriorating security situation in… Read more »

Villagers flee fighting (file photo).

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   UN Envoy Mediates in Goma

    VOA, 2 September 2013

    The United Nations envoy to the Great Lakes region says she will be direct with Kigali about evidence of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of… Read more »

  • Uganda:   Youth Being Recruited Into Rebellion - Army

    New Vision, 2 September 2013

    Uganda together with the UN force in Congo and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) are monitoring clandestine recruitment of Ugandan youth into rebel… Read more »

  • Rwanda:   Phil Clark - "UN Sees Rwanda As Part of Congo's Problem"

    DW, 30 August 2013

    The Congolese M23 rebels have begun withdrawing from the front lines. They say they want to give peace a chance. The move is seen as an indication that the combined UN, Congo… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:  U.S. Peace Efforts Should Focus on Economics First

    allAfrica, 31 August 2013

    The clashes in the eastern Congo over the past week have once again brought into sharp focus the enduring conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese military as well as the… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Rwanda, M23 and the UNSC

    African Arguments, 27 August 2013

    The United Nations demonstrated hypocrisy in its decision to grant Rwanda a seat on its Security Council (UNSC) despite the country's well-documented history of destabilization in… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Peace Deal Fails to Address Trade in Minerals

    OSISA, 29 August 2013

    The current outbreak of fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels around Goma illustrates - yet again - that internationally orchestrated peace deals and UN interventions… Read more »

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