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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 1794 (2007), by which the Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) until 31 December 2008 and requested me to report regularly on major developments in that country. In its presidential statement of 21 October 2008 (S/PRST/2008/38), the Council took note...
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CICR (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... cholera," said Florence Dapples, who is in charge of ICRC water and sanitation programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Demand for water is even greater in the very serious crisis conditions currently afflicting North Kivu."ICRC engineers have also resumed work on spring catchments and on conveyance systems that will significantly increase the supply of potable water for Kitshanga,...
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CICR (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Families are big in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; some comprise as many as 10 children. Children often become separated from their families as terrified crowds flee the fighting. Dozens of families have become split up since fighting resumed. Two stories show how friendship and solidarity are helping people cope.
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Kicking Ass Ann Arbor (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Just the name Democratic Republic of the Congo evokes images of violence and warfare, and it is easy to write off any more information about conflicts there or elsewhere in Africa as “just another African problem.” The recent news from the area isn’t any different-a new conflict broke out in the Nord-Kivu region of the [...]
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CICR (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Since the end of August, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the violence which is devastating the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Several hundred of them ended up in Mboka, near Goma, after an exhausting journey on foot. The headteacher and staff of a local school came to their rescue.
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The New Security Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eclipsed by the world economic downturn, the great heist of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ’s ( DRC ) resources continues unabated. In recent weeks, former Congolese General Laurent Nkunda’s Tutsi rebels have launched offensives in North Kivu , and the Congolese army and UN peacekeepers have been hard-pressed to stop them. With some of the world’s greatest reserves of minerals, metals,...
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THE OUTRAGED SPLEEN OF ZION (Free subscription) | yesterday
BB KING ~ 1977 How Blue Can You Get? China's US $9bn hostage in the Congo war The Democratic Republic of the Congo contains more than half the world's cobalt . It holds one-third of its diamonds... Just weeks after President George W Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted that suggest a major agenda...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UN Human Rights Council on Monday condemned the acts of violence and human rights abuses in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and urged all concerned parties to immediately end all violations. In a resolution adopted by consensus, the 47-state body expressed serious concern at the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the eastern province of North...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United Nations envoy tasked with helping to resolve the conflict behind the recent fighting that has engulfed the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has completed his second round of consultations with leaders in the African Great Lakes region.
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Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The president Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, Friday, received in the capital Kinshasa the Secretary of the African Union Affairs, who informed him of the Leader of the Revolution's concerns over the continuing bloody events taking place in east Democratic Congo and their tragic impact on the innocent citizens.The president Joseph Kabila expressed his thanks to and...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Outbreaks of bloodshed will continue to occur in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where in the past few months escalating conflict has uprooted a quarter of a million people, unless impunity is ended for those guilty of the worst violations, the top United Nations human rights official said today in Geneva.
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... Session of the Human Rights Council on the tragic Situation of human rights in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo began on Friday. It was called at the request of 16 Western countries; the number of co-sponsors soon reached 39 States, but not one from the African Union, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, or the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement). The DRC even alleged that...
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Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Earthweek - November 28, 2008 Hundreds of park rangers are being allowed to return to one of the last refuges for Africas mountain gorilla population in a rare example of cooperation between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and rebel insurgents in the east of the country.
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The persistent advance of rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have forced nearly 13,000 residents into neighboring Uganda, officials say.Officials with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said facing the approach of rebels led by Gen, Laurent Nkunda, nearly 250,000 Congolese have been forced from their homes and many have begun fleeing the war-torn country, the BBC said...
