| UN Security Council approves intervention force to target armed groups in DR Congo | |
UN News Centre - March 28, 2013 | |
![]() | The Security Council today authorized the deployment of an intervention brigade within the current United Nations peacekeeping operation in DR Congo. The intervention brigade will carry out targeted offensive operations, with or without the Congolese national army, against armed groups that threaten peace in the eastern part of DRC. |
| Regional Leaders Sign DR Congo Peace Deal | |
VOA News - February 24, 2013 | |
![]() | Eleven African countries have signed a peace deal aimed at ending decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 11 signing countries are from the Great Lakes region and Southern Africa. The Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region will likely lead to deploying an intervention brigade in the DRC. |
| UN Security Council Condemns Latest M23 Attacks, Extends Sanctions on Rebels | |
UN News Centre - November 28, 2012 | |
![]() | The Security Council extended the arms embargo and other sanctions imposed against armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while expressing its intention to consider additional targeted sanctions against the leadership of the M23, the rebel fighters that recently occupied the eastern provincial capital of Goma. |
| UN Security Council condemns 'any and all outside support' to M23 rebels | |
UN News Centre - October 19, 2012 | |
![]() | “The Security Council calls upon all countries in the region to condemn the M23, as well as other armed groups, and to cooperate actively with the Congolese authorities in disarming and demobilizing the M23 as well as other armed groups and dismantling the M23 parallel administration,” said in a presidential statement. |
| At high-level meeting, Ban urges political solution to crisis in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News Service - September 27, 2012 | |
![]() | Stressing the need to end the suffering caused by the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has uprooted over 300,000 civilians since earlier this year, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an urgent and peaceful resolution based on dialogue. |
| Rights Groups: Strengthen Civilian Protection Before Elections | |
Human Rights Watch - June 9, 2011 | |
![]() | The United Nations Security Council should ensure that the UN mission in Congo has adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians from attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and to avert election-related violence, a coalition of 47 international and Congolese organizations said today. |
| UN Security Council discusses key challenges and risks in an election year in DR Congo | |
UN News - May 18, 2011 | |
![]() | The Security Council today called for urgent steps to strengthen institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and called on the Government to ensure that general elections slated for late this year are inclusive, transparent and peaceful. |
| UN names some of the victims of deadly plane crash | |
UN News - April 6, 2011 | |
![]() | The United Nations has released the names of some of the victims of Monday’s plane crash in Kinshasa that killed all but one of the 33 people aboard a UN aircraft. UN officials, working with Congolese counterparts, said they have been able to identify all the bodies and are in the process of notifying the victims’ next of kin. |
| UN Security Council renews DR Congo sanctions | |
UN News Service - November 29, 2010 | |
![]() | The Security Council today extended for another year the arms embargo and other sanctions it imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to renew the mandate of the group of experts tasked with monitoring the measures. |
| Rebel leader presumed responsible for mass rape arrested | |
UN News - October 5, 2010 | |
![]() | United Nations peacekeepers and Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo today seized one of the rebel leaders suspected of being behind the mass rape of more than 300 civilians two months ago in the country’s east. |