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.
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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).
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
InFocus
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Rwanda is accusing the Democratic Republic of Congo of launching rockets into border cities. The DRC in turn says M23 rebels are responsible in a bid to draw Rwanda into the ... Read more »