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| UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels | |
UN News - January 6, 2009 | |
 | The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). |
| UN calls on rebels to resume talks with Government | |
UN News - January 2, 2009 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today called on the main rebel group in the east of the vast country to resume talks with the Government next week in a bid to end fighting that has forced over 250,000 from their homes since August. |
| Congolese Welcome President Kabila's Promise to Weed Out Armed Groups | |
VOA News - January 2, 2009 | |
 | Congolese have welcomed President Joseph Kabila's promise to weed out armed groups in the country before the end of this year. In a televised address to the nation's to mark the beginning of the New Year, President Kabila vowed to bring peace to the country before the end of 2009. |
| UNHCR Appeals for More UN, Congolese Troops to Protect Civilians | |
VOA News - January 1, 2009 | |
 | The UN refugee agency is appealing to the Congolese government to send more troops to protect civilians in Orientale Province in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in the area over the Christmas period. |
| Will Obama Administration Make Africa a Priority? | |
VOA News - December 31, 2008 | |
 | Just under three weeks from now, Barack Obama takes office as the 44th president of the United States. When he does, he'll face enormous problems and challenges. But will those challenges deflect much attention from sub-Saharan Africa? |
| Ban Ki-moon denounces 'appalling atrocities' by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo | |
UN News - December 30, 2008 | |
 | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the “appalling atrocities” reportedly committed by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and southern Sudan, and demanded that they respect all rules of international humanitarian law. |
| Ugandan rebels said to massacre civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - December 26, 2008 | |
 | According to the reports, the rebels, fleeing a joint military operation by the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush them out of a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, committed grave violations of human rights against civilians in Faradje, 120 kilometres east of Dungu, killing the villagers, plundering and destroying houses. |
| UN investigating alleged sexual misconduct of peacekeepers in DR of Congo | |
UN News - December 24, 2008 | |
 | The United Nations is investigation allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by its peacekeepers stationed in the war-ravaged North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
| Opinion: Solving the Kivu Equation | |
IWPR - December 24, 2008 | |
 | The presence of FDLR soldiers - Rwandan Hutus who fled into Congo after the genocide and now control part of the illegal mineral trade in the east - is a pretext for Rwanda to attack the Kivus. The FDLR are also used by Laurent Nkunda as a justification for his "protection" of the Tutsi minority. As if defending a minority is an acceptable excuse for massacring other Congolese ethnic groups. |
| Security Council tells UN Mission in DR Congo to step up protection of civilians | |
UN News - December 22, 2008 | |
 | The Security Council today told United Nations peacekeepers in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prioritize the protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel, as the number of attacks on aid workers, some of them deadly, passed 100 since the start of 2008. |
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