963 results found for: kinshasa
| 'Pendulum displacement' in the Kivus | |
IRIN - August 1, 2007 | |
 | Janet Furaha fled the violence in her home area of Kaniola in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) South Kivu province in May to live with relatives in Walungu, but she has often returned to tend her farm. |
| Government seeks help for 75,000 IDPs | |
IRIN - July 31, 2007 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's Humanitarian Affairs Minister Jean-Claude Muyambo has said there were 75,000 homeless people in the two biggest cities, adding to a growing number of internally displaced people (IDPs) countrywide. |
| South Kivu: 4,500 sexual violence cases in the first six months of this year alone | |
MONUC - July 27, 2007 | |
 | According to Prof. Yakin Erturk, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Violence against Women "the situation in the Kivus is the worst crisis I have encountered so far." Professor Erturk denounced this situation during the conference in Kinshasa on 27 July 2007. |
| Mining Boom in DRC Boosts Fortunes of State-Owned Gecamines | |
VOA News - July 25, 2007 | |
 | Gecamines, the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled state-owned mining company, said it has tackled corruption issues that have plagued the company for decades and is ready to consolidate some of its assets and expand its business. But as Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA from Katanga's capital Lumbumbashi, Gecamines has said it still needs the government to stop creditors from taking it to court in the short term. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
