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UN Reports 14,000 Rape Cases
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 17, 2008
he UN Human Rights Council's Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the DRC, Mr. Titinga Frédéric Pacéré, was on his 5th work visit in the DRC from 12 to 14 March 2008. The objective of his visit is to learn about the latest happenings on the ground... more
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Kinshasa Unable to Disarm FDLR Rebels - Analysts
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 17, 2008
he deadline for Rwandan Hutu fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to voluntarily disarm has expired without guns being handed in, because Kinshasa lacks the capacity to resolve the problem, analysts ... more
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ICC Defers Opening of Its First Trial to June
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 17, 2008
he trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) deferred to 23 June the opening of the trial of Thomas Lubanga, former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) accused of war crimes for forcibly enrolling children in thE militia of Ituri, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... more
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FDLR Must Surrender Now, Insists UN Security Council
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 17, 2008
he United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution demanding immediate unconditional disarmament, demobilization and repatriation of all Rwandan militia groups operating in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo ... more
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Time Runs Out for FDLR in Congo
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 17, 2008
fter 14 painstaking years, the United Nations Security Council has at long last taken the bold step of calling a spade a ... more
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Leaders gather for Chad summit
Topix - Sunday, March 16, 2008
p> Leaders of the Economic Community of Central African States converged on Kinshasa today for a summit focusing on the situation in Chad in the wake of a failed rebel assault. via Sunday Times ... more
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Makeba visits DRC rape survivors
Topix - Saturday, March 15, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"Women guarantee the survival of 80 percent of the households in DRC. Yet despite their crucial role for the wellbeing of the family, they are frequently victims to rape and sexual violence" Singer and activist Miriam Makeba will visit rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of... more
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East is Stabilizing, Says UN Official
allAfrica.com - Saturday, March 15, 2008
ublic safety and security are steadily increasing in the Ituri province of the militia-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a top United Nations official said today after a two-day ... more
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Seven dead in DRC village raid
Topix - Friday, March 14, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"It was Pareco fighters who killed the people in Kibaki. It was during the night. We don't know why they did it, but often they accuse the population of connivance with the CNDP" Seven villagers were killed and six wounded in a night raid at Kibaki... more
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UN Deputy Says Ituri On the Path To Stabilization
allAfrica.com - Friday, March 14, 2008
oss Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo visited Ituri for 48 hours on 11 and 12 March 2008, where he took part in the opening of the first consultative workshop on the Action... more
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AFRICA: AFRICOM to focus on military, not humanitarian role
IRIN - Friday, March 14, 2008
ASHINGTON Friday, March 14, 2008 (IRIN) - In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role. ... more
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South African Singer Decries Plight of Women
allAfrica.com - Friday, March 14, 2008
outh African Singer, Miriam Makeba has said that women survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) face a "triple tragedy" of physical, psychological and social ... more
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Rwandan Armed Groups in East Must Surrender, Says UN
allAfrica.com - Friday, March 14, 2008
he Security Council today called on all Rwandan armed groups operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to surrender immediately to Congolese authorities and the United Nations peacekeeping mission known as ... more
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Mirriam Makeba Visits DR Congo
Topix - Thursday, March 13, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"I was in Mozambique a couple of years ago to give boats and fish nets and things like that from FAO and from the Italian people to the people who have suffered the flood in Mozambique." World renowned South African musician Miriam Makeba arrived in Kinshasa,... more
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UN Special Rep Reports Kivu Progress
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 13, 2008
We greatly hope that the troops' pullout will translate into lasting peace so that the Congolese who live in those areas may return home and enjoy the fruit of their work." These are the words of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Alan Doss during MONUC weekly press... more
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Miriam Makeba Visits Rape Survivors
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 13, 2008
akeba, who is on a four-day visit to Kinshasa in her role as FAO Goodwill Ambassador, is planning to tour small farming projects designed to help rape survivors feed their families and increase self-reliance. The women have received FAO-donated seeds, tools and agricultural training. Makeba is to be accompanied by... more
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South African UN Goodwill Ambassador Meets Rape Survivors
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 13, 2008
omen who have survived sexual violence endure a "triple tragedy" - physical, psychological and social - in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South African singer and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba has ... more
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D.R. of Congo: Werrason rewrites censored song
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 13, 2008
p> Le Congo C'est La [Fr] writes about the new version of the Werrason song “Temps présent,” cut after the original was censored for obscene language. ... more
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International Criminal Court joins cases of two Congolese rebel leaders
Topix - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
p> The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court has ruled that it will join the cases of two rebel leaders facing charges for crimes allegedly committed by their militia groups in the far east of the ... via United Nations ... more
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D.R. of Congo: Mbundu dia Kongo makes a comeback?
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
p>Richard Kabamba blogs at Forum Realisance [Fr] about the return of Mbundu dia Kongo , a decades' old political-religious movement based in Bas-Congo province which “now more than ever continues to defy [President] Kabila's authority, powerless in the face of the acts of barbarism, vandalism... more
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