http://congoplanet.com Congo Planet News, Music, Videos en Copyright 2007 CongoPlanet.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:50:26 GMT-07:00 10 http://congoplanet.com http://congoplanet.com/pictures/congo_planet_kinshasa.jpg 64 12 Your source for news from the Congo http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261327 The Security Council today authorized a temporary increase of more than 3,000 blue helmets serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to deal with the violence in the country’s east, which has displaced an estimated 250,000 civilians in recent months. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261326 Some Congolese are warning renegade army General Laurent Nkunda that they would make life difficult for him if he goes ahead with his threat to take over the country. They are accusing the rebel leader of fighting an unjustified war, which has led to the loss of lives and property and an escalation in the number of people adversely affected by the rebel insurgency. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261325 The International Criminal Court (ICC) today announced its decision to reverse its earlier suspension of the trial of Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, accused of recruiting child soldiers to serve in his militia. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261324 The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today expressed hope that the Security Council will shortly approve a request for 3,000 additional troops to buttress blue helmets already on the ground in the country’s east, the scene of fierce recent conflict. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261323 At the end of his mission on Sunday in DR Congo's eastern province of North Kivu, the former Nigerian president said Laurent Nkunda, the Tutsi leader of the rebel National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), accepted his role as the special envoy of the UN secretary general in mediating a deal to end the clash. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261322 In his wildest dreams, warlord Laurent Nkunda sees himself as the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo one day. He dreams of marching on to Kinshasa from his hideouts in Kigali and North Kivu, on to South Kivu, Katanga, the Kasais, Bandundu, Bas-Congo, and finally making a triumphal entry into the capital. He envisions he will be welcomed as the Hero, Liberator, Savior, Lord, and proclaimed Chancellor of the Congo. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261321 Angola Foreign Minister Georges Chicoty announced on Angolan national radio that his country would send troops to eastern Congo, where government soldiers and a rebel group led by Laurent Nkunda remain in a standoff outside the town of Goma, near the Rwandan border. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261320 The civilian toll continues to rise, including killings in the town of Kiwanja in North Kivu on November 4-5 that Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Congo Alan Doss described as war crimes in a statement on November 7. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261319 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned that the perpetrators of recent targeted killings of civilians, looting and rape in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will face justice. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00 http://congoplanet.com/article.jsp?id=45261318 SADC should immediately provide assistance to the armed forces of the DRC, said Tomaz Salomao, head of the regional bloc. The SADC would not stand by and witness incessant and destructive acts of violence by any armed groups against innocent people of DRC, if and when necessary, SADC will, within the Nairobi framework, send peacekeeping force into Kivu Province of the DRC, he added. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:26 GMT-07:00