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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
The resumption of fighting in eastern Congo in October 2008 between rebel forces loyal to dissident General Nkunda and units of the Congolese army clearly underlines the fragility of the peace process in the DRC. In particular, it confirms the weakness of the Congolese army (FARDC) and the glaring absence of state authority, and once again points to the difficulties of keeping a fragile...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
At first observation, everything looked like it was staged. The area's 'President' and head of National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) General Laurent Nkunda, was meeting General Olusegun Obasanjo.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... recruting child-soldiers, arming Mai-mai troops in order to draw international attention and stop general Nkunda advances on the battle-fields.International observers should rather investigate about the "long-run Interest" of France in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the France's only investment is only a small hospital, if not the Hutus fighters France is cherishing for a...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... to be sent to the region to halt atrocities there.In the latest fighting, rebels led by dissident general Laurent Nkunda attacked the pro-government Mai-Mai militia on the road to Uganda, north-east of the rebel-held town of Rutshuru.Gen Nkunda has said he is fighting to protect his Tutsi community from attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels, some of whom are accused of taking part...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
FORCES AROUND GOMA CNDP: Gen Nkunda's Tutsi rebels - 6,000 fightersFDLR: Rwandan Hutus - 6-7,000Mai Mai: pro-government militia - 3,500Monuc: UN peacekeepers - 6,000 in North Kivu, including about 1,000 in Goma (17,000 nationwide)DRC army - 90,000 (nationwide)Source: UN, military expertsHis Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwanda Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... from going since September of last year when it was overrun by the rebel CNDP army of Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda. Since then, there has been only one recorded sighting of a silverback – an adult male – by the staff whose main purpose is to protect one-third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas.Africa's oldest park, and arguably the most important nature reserve in the world,...
