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DR Congo criticises UN army snub
Brazzaville :: Congo | 26 days ago
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UN forces have helped fight Hutu rebels near the Rwanda border since January. The rebels fled Rwanda in 1994 after being accused of involvement in the genocide and have been the cause of major unrest in eastern DR Congo and the region ever since. Macheted,...
Tags: Congolese, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Congo, U.N., Alain Le Roy, Rwandan Hutu mi
"Congo ops should continue despite criticism"
Brazzaville :: Congo | about 1 month ago
Credibility Congo ops should continue despite criticism" Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:28 GMT Font size : The United Nations should continue support for the Congolese government despite reports of killings and rapes by government troops, UN special envoy to Congo says.
Tags: Congolese, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Congo, Hong Kong
Congo offensive a 'humanitarian disaster'
Brazzaville :: Congo | about 1 month ago
Credibility UN-backed Congo military offensive a 'humanitarian disaster' More than 1,000 civilians killed, 7,000 raped, and 900,000 displaced in operation to disarm Hutu rebel group, says report UN peacekeepers have provided tactical expertise and logistical support...
Tags: Congo Advocacy Coalition, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese, eastern congo, human rights, hutu militiamen, protect civilians
Rebel leads UN-backed operations in Congo, experts say
Brazzaville :: Congo | 6 months ago
Credibility EDT Kinshasa The de facto deputy commander of UN-backed military operations in eastern Congo is a warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, UN experts say. General Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel who joined a peace deal ending...
Rebels out of control
Brazzaville :: Congo | 7 months ago
Credibility Congolese civilians as apparent punishment for the military operations against them," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch, accusing the fighters and their commanders of war crimes. The detailed report came out to...
Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese, Eastern Congo, Obama
Gunmen free 222 from DR Congo jail
New York :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Unidentified gunmen blasted their way into a prison in eastern Congo with heavy weapons today, freeing 222 prisoners in a raid that killed five people, witnesses and local officials said. The raid took place at 0300 GMT in the lakeside town of Uvira...
Tags: Congo, united nation, eastern congo
Rebels retake positions inside DR Congo
Kigali :: Rwanda | 9 months ago
Credibility It comes only a few days after the Rwandan army withdrew its forces from the east of the country. A United Nations spokesman said he had reports that the Rwandan-based rebels had retaken several positions in eastern Congo, including a former military...
Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese, Liberation of Congo, Rwandan, dr congo, eastern congo, Rwandaâ, eastern democratic
DRC: Rwandan operation "not welcomed"
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | 9 months ago
Credibility We don’t really know what they are doing there because our access has been blocked.� Lambert Mende, DRC government spokesman “I don’t think the Rwandan soldiers need humanitarian workers in order to deploy, unless the humanitarian workers want...
Tags: Rwandan Hutu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congolese, hutu rebels, DRC, joint operations, Kinshasa, Laurent Nkunda, eastern congo, pour la
Ben Affleck Urges Hope in Eastern Congo
Brazzaville :: Congo | 9 months ago
Credibility The actor, 36, continues his ardent activism with an essay for the current issue of Time about his personal experiences and the ongoing war and displacement in eastern Congo. Affleck has been traveling to the African country since 2007 to learn firsthand...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Congo
Ex-child soldier recalls Congo war atrocities
Brazzaville :: Congo | 9 months ago
Credibility A former child soldier calmly recalled in court Tuesday that he killed and mutilated people during a battle at a church school in eastern Congo . The young man testified at the International Criminal Court that he was abducted while on his way home from...
Tags: Congolese, child soldiers, eastern congo
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