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UNHCR Suspends Aid in DRCongo Province
Topix - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"We do not think it is going to last" The U.N. refugee agency says it has been forced to suspend a distribution of aid to displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province because of renewed violence. via Voice of America... more
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D.R. of Congo: Kinshasa Soundtrack
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
p> A musical gift from the Democratic Republic of Congo : “To celebrate a couple of years in the Congo, here’s a mixtape just for Extra Extra readers. (Songs should stream when clicked. If they don’t, please let me know and I’ll scratch my head and bleat a bit.)” ... more
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These Allegations Are Still Speculation - Says Head Of MONUC
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
n a BBC radio report of 28 April 2008, certain Pakistani and Indian MONUC blue helmets were alleged to have sold weapons for gold to the militia of Ituri in 2004 and 2005. The UN conducted an investigation in 2007. Alan Doss, head of MONUC, responded to these allegations in... more
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Court Calls for Arrest of Militia Leader
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
he International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for the arrest of a militia leader accused of forcibly enlisting children as soldiers to fight in the volatile, resource-rich Ituri district in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from July 2002 until the end of ... more
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Govt to Protest Against UN
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
overnment plans to send a protest note to the United Nations Security Council criticising the alleged arming of Ugandan dissident groups in DR Congo like the rebel ADF UN ... more
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Suspected War Criminal Wanted
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
ongolese officials and UN peacekeepers should take swift action to enforce the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant against a rebel leader accused of forcibly conscripting child soldiers and of other abuses, Human Rights Watch said ... more
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Country On Wild Polio Virus Alert
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
gandans on the border with the DR Congo are now at higher risk of contracting the Wild Polio Virus, health authorities warned yesterday as the World Health Organisation confirmed the prevalence of the physically disabling disease in parts of neighbouring North-Kivu ... more
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ICC Issues Fourth Arrest Warrant
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
n Tuesday, 29 April 2008, the International Criminal Court (ICC) made public its case against Bosco Ntaganda for alleged crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This is the fourth arrest warrant unsealed within the context of the DRC situation and the eleventh arrest warrant issued by the... more
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DR Congo: Suspected War Criminal Wanted
Human Rights Watch - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
International Court Unseals Arrest Warrant Against Bosco Ntaganda
Congolese officials and UN peacekeepers should take swift action to enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against a rebel leader accused of forcibly conscripting child soldiers and of other abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. ... more
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ICC seeks DR Congo's 'Terminator'
Topix - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
p> Both Mr Ntaganda and Mr Lubanga are accused of recruiting child soldiers A Congolese warlord known as "the Terminator" is being sought for prosecution, the International Criminal Court in the Hague has ... via BBC ... more
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UN Denies Cover-Up Over Peacekeeper Probe
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
he United Nations has rebutted allegations that there was a cover-up of an internal investigation into alleged misconduct by UN peacekeepers working in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... more
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Eight Injured in Attack on Civilians
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
he United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) today condemned what it called a "criminal attack" on a lorry transporting civilians in the country's South Kivu province, which left eight civilians injured, three of them ... more
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BBC finding: Indian, Pak peacekeepers arming Congo militias
Topix - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
p> SNS & AP KINSHASA /NEW YORK, April 28: Peacekeepers from Pakistan and India smuggled gold and ivory and gave arms to militias fighting in eastern Congo, the British Broadcasting Corporation alleged today, ... via The Statesman ... more
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U.N. troops accused of smuggling
Topix - Monday, April 28, 2008
p> U.N. insiders allege the United Nations is covering up allegations that its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo were dealing in arms, gold and ivory. via Political Gateway ... more
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Trial of Defendant 'Crucial Step' to End Impunity - Senior UN Official
allAfrica.com - Monday, April 28, 2008
he trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, who has been charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) with recruiting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), will be "a crucial step in the fight against impunity and will have a decisive deterrent effect against perpetrators of this outrageous... more
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Crash Revives Debate Over Air Safety
allAfrica.com - Monday, April 28, 2008
ourteen days after the crash of a DC-9 aircraft in the city of Goma, North Kivu province, eastern DR Congo, very few details have been made available about the real causes of the ... more
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Malaria Still Biggest Killer
allAfrica.com - Monday, April 28, 2008
xaucée Makembi, aged three, has been very weak for three days and sleeps in the arms of her mother, Tina Nzongola, who has taken her to a health centre on the outskirts of ... more
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UN peacekeepers 'traded gold and guns with Congolese rebels'
Topix - Monday, April 28, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Kung Fu and Dragon Masasi, they went to the (Pakistani) camp in Mongbwalu and from there they came with seven boxes of ammunition, which were given to the combatants. The combatants brought this ammunition to the camp to fight the national army." This article was first... more
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Appeal made to free LRA abductees
Topix - Sunday, April 27, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"As in Uganda, these people -- including scores of women and children -- are likely to be used as child combatants and sex slaves and yet none of the governments in the region have done anything to try to secure their release" Amnesty International called for... more
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Hundreds flee new violence in strife-torn region of DR Congo, UN agency says
Topix - Saturday, April 26, 2008
p> Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province today has forced the United Nations refugee agency to halt the distribution of aid to internally displaced persons and to call off ... via United Nations ... more
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