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Congo-Kinshasa:
UN Urges Govt to End Impunity for Rape
VOA, 9 April 2014
A new U.N. report shows limited progress in fighting sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where too few attackers have been brought to justice. The cases of sexual… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
UN, Govt Must Defeat Rwandan Rebels
Worldpress.org, 28 April 2014
When the M23 (March 23 Movement) marched into Goma, the regional capital of North Kivu, in November 2012, it marked perhaps the lowest point in the 15-year U.N. peacekeeping… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
DRC Military Offensives Reduces Number of Armed Groups
VOA, 10 April 2014
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Congo-Kinshasa:
UN Urges End of Impunity for Sexual Violence
UN News, 9 April 2014
United Nations officials today called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to step up the fight against impunity for rape and sexual violence, which… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Fighting Invisible Rwandan Enemy
UNIRIN, 9 April 2014
It is difficult to identify the fighters of the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), one of the many armed groups active in eastern Democratic… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Back to Rwanda
UNIRIN, 11 April 2014
The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) has long been one of the most significant armed groups active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it has… Read more »
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Africa:
How to Win a War Without a Fight
Fahamu, 16 April 2014
Those who are fighting today against the splintering of Ukraine are the same as those who are working behind the scenes to break up Mali and who are financing the rebellions in… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Healing the Visible and Invisible Wounds
ICRC, 17 April 2014
When bullets smashed through the walls of a house in Pinga, they left a little girl dead and her sister Chimène (7) seriously injured. Surgeons at Goma hospital had to… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Kagame and the Murder of Millions in Congo and Rwanda
Fahamu, 24 April 2014
For 20 years, Kagame has posed as the soldier who stopped the Rwandan genocide, when all evidence and logic point to him as the main perpetrator of the crime Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
How to Tackle the DRC's Complex Anti-Impunity Agenda
African Arguments, 23 April 2014
To date, there have been no effective responses to impunity for perpetrators of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which have been on going since the… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Mob Violence Rife in DRC's Ituri District
UNIRIN, 17 April 2014
The near absence of any effective policing in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) district of Ituri, Orientale Province, is fuelling mob violence which has seen… Read more »