News
| Mobile Phone Industry Accused of Financing Congo Conflict | |
VOA News - February 15, 2010 | |
 | An international watchdog is calling for the mobile phone industry to do more to halt the use of rare metals that are mined in conflict zones. Speaking on the opening day of the Mobile World Congress, Global Witness says metals found in everyday electronic objects are fueling conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Sherrod Brown to Travel to Africa | |
durbin.senate.gov - February 13, 2010 | |
 | Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will travel to Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Sudan this week to examine US foreign assistance programs in the region. |
| No Sudanese soldier on DR Congo's territory: ambassador | |
Xinhua - February 12, 2010 | |
 | The diplomat pointed out that minor problems that might arise along the common border could be resolved by the local authorities in the two neighboring provinces in order to strengthen the cross- border cooperation and commercial exchanges. |
| Official Says MONUC Continues Help with Integrating Ex-Combatants Into Army | |
VOA News - February 11, 2010 | |
 | An official of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) says the group has been successful in helping with the integration of tens of thousands of former combatants into Congo’s national army. |
| Lubanga Witness Says He Was Paid US$200 To Tell Lies | |
lubangatrial.org - February 8, 2010 | |
 | A witness today told the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga that intermediaries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave him US$200 as payment for convincing his nephew to give false testimony against the accused. |
| Ugandan rebels kill 100 civilians in north-eastern DR Congo, UN reports | |
UN News - February 1, 2010 | |
 | Some 100 people were slaughtered by a notorious Uganda rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month, the United Nations humanitarian arm has said. According to reliable information collected by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Lord’s Resistance Army attacked the village of Mabanga in north-eastern DRC on 13 January. |
| Official Denies Uganda Troop Presence in Congo | |
VOA News - February 1, 2010 | |
 | An official of Uganda’s government has denied reports that its troops have entered into Beni town in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s formerly restive Kivu province. Uganda's information minister Kabakumba Masiko says there is no need for residents in the Kivu provinces to panic. |
| ICC: Thomas Lubanga Defence Questions Witness Credibility | |
IWPR - January 30, 2010 | |
| The case for the defence in the war crimes trial of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga opened this week with his lawyers declaring that prosecution witnesses were coached, and that the witnesses who claimed to have been child soldiers never were. |
| New report urges UN to learn lessons on resource-fuelled wars | |
Global Witness - January 27, 2010 | |
 | The lack of a coherent and committed international approach to tackling the role of natural resources in conflict is costing lives in Democratic Republic of Congo and heightening the risk of further unrest in other fragile states such as Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea, according to a new report from Global Witness. |
| Russia gets involved in the reform of the Congolese Armed Forces | |
ACP - January 26, 2010 | |
 | Russia has awarded thirty scholarships to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), Anatoly Klimenko, the Russian ambassador in Kinshasa, said on Tuesday after meeting with the Minister of National Defense and Veterans Affairs, Charles Muando Nsimba. |
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