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| UN: Hold Peacekeepers Accountable for Congo Smuggling | |
Human Rights Watch - July 23, 2007 | |
 | Following its investigation into alleged gold smuggling and arms trading by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations should ensure accountability for those involved, Human Rights Watch said today. In a letter to Jean-Marie Guehenno, the under-secretary-general for UN peacekeeping operations, Human Rights Watch took issue with Guehenno's comments that the matter is now "closed.? |
| Security Council expresses deep concern at deteriorating security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo | |
UN News - July 23, 2007 | |
 | The Security Council this morning expressed its deep concern at the deteriorating security situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular in North and South Kivu, and the serious humanitarian consequences of the violent actions of foreign armed groups, especially the Forces democratiques the liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), as well as the military activities of the "mixed" brigades. |
| Secretary-General calls for action to resolve crisis in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - July 20, 2007 | |
 | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for action to resolve the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) volatile eastern region, where some 700,000 people have been internally displaced. |
| National Assembly closes second extraordinary session | |
MONUC - July 19, 2007 | |
 | On Thursday 18 July 2007 the National Assembly closed the second extraordinary session at the "Palais de Pueple" in Kinshasa. On the agenda of its plenary session was the Special Commission's report on "the Kahemba affair"- the DRC's border dispute with Angola in Bandundu province- as well as the validation of the mandates of eighteen new deputies. |
| MONUC - An investigation is underway and any culprits will be immediately punished | |
MONUC - July 18, 2007 | |
 | International news agencies and Congolese newspapers have, since last weekend, reported on information alleging that United Nations peacekeepers based in the province of North Kivu in eastern DRC were implicated in the traffic of gold with the FDLR (Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda) during 2005 and 2006. |
| UN sends team to DR Congo to probe allegations of misconduct by peacekeepers | |
UN News - July 13, 2007 | |
 | The United Nations announced today that it is sending a management audit team to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this weekend in response to allegations of misconduct by troops serving with the world body's peacekeeping operation there. |
| UNHCR increasingly concerned by spiralling displacement and atrocities in North Kivu | |
UNHCR - July 13, 2007 | |
 | Today, in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we along with UNICEF are making a joint distribution of assistance to more than 10,000 internally displaced people in the Buganga area |
| Kinshasa: Contact group workshop on reform of DRC army | |
MONUC - July 13, 2007 | |
 | A contact group workshop on the reform of the army in the DRC, organized by the DRC Ministry of Defence and war veterans, was held from 12 to 13 July 2007 in Kinshasa. The aim was to examine the fundamental needs for the reform of the army, in order to format a roadmap of a programme which will be presented in September. |
| Expelled Congolese waiting for aid | |
IRIN - July 11, 2007 | |
 | Tens of thousands of Congolese expelled from Angola since the beginning of July have lost all their goods and have not received any help, according to NGOs. |
| UN envoy deplores murder of politician in volatile east | |
UN News - July 10, 2007 | |
 | The senior United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has condemned yesterday's murder of a local politician in the far east of the country, saying it seems to be part of an emerging pattern of assassinations of political and business leaders in that region of the vast nation. |
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