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| Army Should Stop Use of Child Soldiers | |
Human Rights Watch - April 19, 2007 | |
 | The Congolese government should immediately stop former rebel warlords now commissioned as national army officers from recruiting and using child soldiers in army brigades deployed in North Kivu province, Human Rights Watch said today. |
| Former DRC Vice President Calls for Political End to Crisis | |
VOA News - April 18, 2007 | |
 | Former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Azarias Ruberwa is calling on the government to halt plans to lift the immunity of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in order to charge him with high treason. |
| Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Central Africa | |
CARE - April 16, 2007 | |
 | The overlapping conflicts in Central Africa - in Burundi, the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda - have produced a well-known parade of horrors, including the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. The statistics are jarring. |
| Congolese Opposition Party Stages Boycott of Parliament | |
VOA News - April 14, 2007 | |
 | Members of the Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition party, led by former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, have suspended participation in parliament because of concerns about their safety. |
| Villagers flee rebel attacks in South Kivu | |
IRIN - April 13, 2007 | |
 | Weeks of attacks by Rwandan rebels on villagers in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, have forced several thousand people to abandon their homes for Walungu town, a United Nations official has said. |
| DRC civil society underline the need for strong political leadership | |
MONUC - April 13, 2007 | |
 | A civil society and religious organizations committee workshop on the DRC government's programme took place in Kinshasa from 11 to 12 April 2007, with the collaboration of MONUC and other development partners, with the aim of underlining governmental and political responsibility in the DRC. |
| Congo Prosecutors Asks For Removal of Bemba's Immunity | |
VOA News - April 12, 2007 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's top prosecutor has asked the country's Senate to lift immunity for Senator and former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba so he can be charged with treason. |
| Senator Bemba leaves for Portugal | |
MONUC - April 11, 2007 | |
 | Senator J.P. Bemba, who was finally authorised to go to Portugal for medical treatment, left Kinshasa this Wednesday morning 11 April 2007 at 2am in his private Boeing 727, accompanied by his wife and five children. |
| Carving Up The Congo | |
GREENPEACE - April 11, 2007 | |
 | The Congo rainforest is the life support system for millions of people in the 'green heart' of Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, 40 million people depend on the forest. Like all large intact forests, it's also crucially important for regulating the local and global climate. As the world's second largest rainforest, the Congo rainforest is also home to some of Africa's most iconic wildlife including gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and forest elephants. |
| Congo's Bemba Leaves For Portugal While Supporters Feel Persecuted | |
VOA News - April 11, 2007 | |
 | The former rebel and current opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has left for Portugal after seeking refuge for several weeks at the South African embassy in Kinshasa, while his supporters say they still feel persecuted. This follows deadly violence in March between Bemba's guard and Congo's post-war security forces. |
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