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Minister Orders Bodyguards To Beat Up Two TVJournalists
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
eporters Without Borders is outraged by the beating which TV reporter Heustache Namunanika and cameraman Didier Lofumbwa received at the behest of higher education minister Sylvain Ngabu on 22 October. The beating was carried out by Ngabu's police bodyguards in his Kinshasa office and in his ... more
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Opening Statement - "Exploring the U.S. Role in Consolidating Peace and Democracy in the Great Lakes Region"
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
he following is the opening statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold at the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs hearing on "Exploring the U.S. Role in Consolidating Peace and Democracy in the Great Lakes Region," as prepared for delivery October 24, ... more
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Ituri - Ongoing Sexual Violence and Brutality
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
espite an overall decrease in the intensity and recurrence of conflicts in the district of Ituri in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), civilian populations there are still subjected to high levels of violence. Based upon four years of medical work in the region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)... more
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Nkunda Set to Hand Over 200 Men for Integration Into Army
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
issident General Laurent Nkunda, who has been battling government forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is set to hand over 200 men for integration into the regular army, a process he has so far bitterly ... more
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The ICTR Wishes to Reinforce Its Co-Operation With MONUC and Kinshasa
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
fficials for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), who received Tuesday a delegation of Western diplomats stationed in Kigali, called for the reinforcement of their co-operation with the United National Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and with the government of Kinshasa for the arrest of ... more
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DR Congo: fighting in North Kivu forces thousands to flee to Uganda - " UN
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"MONUC remains highly worried by this situation, and stresses that rape is a completely inadmissible criminal act that no climate of insecurity or impunity can justify" IDPs heading towards a new camp 23 October 2007 – A flare-up of fighting in the Democratic Republic of the... more
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DRC: Che Guevara on Laurent Kabila
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p>History speaks as Congolese blogger Alex Engwete translates (Fr) Che Guevara's pessimistic assessment of Laurent Kabila 's potential to become a revolutionary leader: “He lets things drag on forever without caring about anything other than internal quarrels, and he also devoted to women and drink…” ... more
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Press Freedom Group Condemns Beating of Journalists
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
he following is an abridged open letter from JED to Congolese Prime Minister Antoine ... more
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Regional Peace Team to Meet Congo President, Rebel Leader
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
arliamentarians from 11 countries in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa have formed a peace team, which among other initiatives will meet President Joseph Kabila of the DR Congo and Congolese rebel leader Gen. Laurent ... more
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Government and donors said slow to act in Congo
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The Congolese government, backed by the international community, tried several short-term solutions to the fighting but failed to deal with the underlying causes of conflict" Congo's leaders, foreign donors and the United Nations were slow to see the risk of fresh conflict in the nation's east,... more
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FEATURE-Congo's faded copper town perks up in mining rush
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"My life is totally different now. Now I know I will have enough money each month to feed my family and pay school fees" Amid rusted hulks of abandoned plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.... more
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Mother's plea over shot teenager
Topix - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"He was a good boy and I loved him very much" The mother of murdered 16-year-old Jonathan Matondo has urged anyone with information about her son's death to "find it in their hearts" to come forward. via IcWales ... more
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UNHCR Briefing Notes
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
he latest escalation in fighting in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced thousands more people to flee southwards towards Goma and across the border into Uganda. An estimated 8,000 Congolese refugees who fled to Bunagana in Uganda over the weekend were still there... more
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Why Rape Fields Will Thrive
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Eastern DRC has become a fertile ground for a myriad of rebel groups. While some rebels are fighting DRC government, others are targetting other countries including Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Angelo Izama analyses why the Great Lakes region is not about to experience any ... more
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Monuc Radio Monitoring - 23 October 2007
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
VOA of 22/10/2007 at 19:30 ... more
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Top Rebel Surrenders in Neighbouring DR Congo, Says UN Mission
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, the northern Ugandan rebel group, has surrendered in the northeast of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations peacekeeping mission to that country reported ... more
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Monuc Press Review - 23 October 2007
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
his Tuesday 23 October 2007, the Kinshasa press devotes its principal columns to the visit of president Kabila in the United ... more
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Govt Requests Access to LRA Leader Held in DRC
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
GANDAN diplomats in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa have written to authorities there seeking urgent access to the LRA Operations Director Opio ... more
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Fighting in North Kivu Forces Thousands to Flee to Uganda - UN
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
flare-up of fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) North Kivu province, where Government forces have been clashing with those loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda and other groups, is sending thousands of people across the border into neighbouring Uganda, the United Nations refugee agency reported ... more
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Civilians in Peril
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
s Congolese politicians and diplomats scramble to avoid full-scale war in the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch today issued a report documenting horrific murders, rape, and pillage by all parties to the ... more
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