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CICR (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 20 November 2009, the ICRC handed over the newly rebuilt Vuhoyo health centre to the health authorities in Kayna. Health delegate Marcelle Baltzinger highlights the struggles and inadequacies of health-care facilities in North Kivu. She describes ICRC efforts to improve access to care in this part of the country scarred by devastating armed conflict and marked by persistently poor security conditions....
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CICR (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Marie, a 22-year-old Congolese woman, has suffered long-term sexual abuse. She is now trying to rebuild her life thanks to the ICRC programme of psychosocial and economic support in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marie's story is told by Nadine Puechguirbal, ICRC adviser on women and war.
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Congo Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Currently, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur (Sudan). The programme promotes access to and understanding of judicial proceedings and fosters realistic expectations about the court's work. This in turn has engendered greater local community participation by addressing their...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
United Nations peacekeepers are going beyond the call of duty in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), not only protecting local civilians from rebel militia but also helping them boost agricultural output as well as resurfacing roads and refurbishing a school.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Security force costing $1bn a year has not defeated Rwandan Hutu rebels or halted plunder of lucrative minerals, experts find The world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been branded a failure by experts who say it is fuelling a surge of murders and rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UN security force of 25,000, estimated to cost more than $1bn a year, has proved unable...
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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Currently, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur (Sudan). The programme promotes access to and understanding of judicial proceedings and fosters realistic expectations about the court's work. This in turn has engendered greater local community participation by addressing their...
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Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Currently, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur (Sudan). The programme promotes access to and understanding of judicial proceedings and fosters realistic expectations about the court's work. This in turn has engendered greater local community participation by addressing their...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
A hospital set up in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to care for United Nations peacekeepers is also bringing hope to hundreds of local people who might otherwise lack necessary treatment for their illnesses and injuries as well as screening that can ward off preventable sickness.
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14th & You (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Library and the Joseph Taylor Arms Mansion (Chancery of the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The list of Most Endangered Places in Washington is chosen by the DCPL Board of Trustees based on nominations submitted by concerned individuals, communities and organizations. Nominations are assessed based on the severity of the threat to the resource in question,...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague began proceedings on Tuesday for the trial of two Congolese nationals believed to be responsible for the killings of more than 200 men, women, and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2003. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui both pleaded not guilty to three crimes against humanity and seven war crimes, including...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The trial against two former Congolese rebel leaders for crimes allegedly committed by their militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2003 is set to begin tomorrow in The Hague at the International Criminal Court.
