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| Global Witness uncovers foreign companies' links to Congo violence | |
Global Witness - July 21, 2009 | |
 | European and Asian companies, including Bangkok-based THAISARCO (a subsidiary of British metals group AMC), UK-based Afrimex, and Belgium-based Trademet have been buying minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that are funding armed groups and fuelling conflict, said Global Witness in a report published today. |
| UN emergency fund gives $7 million to aid eastern DR Congo's displaced | |
UN News - July 17, 2009 | |
 | United Nations agencies and their partners will be able to provide urgent humanitarian relief to some 250,000 people in the strife-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) thanks to $7 million in emergency funding. |
| Civilians paying price of efforts to thwart DR Congo armed groups, UN envoy says | |
UN News - July 10, 2009 | |
 | Civilians are bearing the brunt of attempts to dismantle armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the rebels carrying out vicious reprisals and some Government soldiers committing serious human rights abuses, the senior United Nations official to the country told the Security Council today. |
| Kimia II operations to be launched in South Kivu by Sunday - FARDC | |
Radio Okapi - July 9, 2009 | |
 | Kimia II operations will probably be launched this Sunday in South Kivu province. This announcement was made in Bukavu on Thursday by the Chief of Staff of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) Didier Etumba at a press briefing. So far troops in Kimia II operations have been taking position and merely responding to attacks by the FDLR. They are now in the active phase of the operation. |
| Eastern DR Congo still faces security, humanitarian challenges - Ban Ki-moon | |
UN News - July 8, 2009 | |
 | The security and humanitarian situation in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to crumble, despite the recent signing of a peace pact between the Government and a key militia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes in a new report. |
| Congo Government Accuses Human Rights Watch of Hidden Agenda | |
Congo News Agency - July 5, 2009 | |
 | Government spokesman Lambert Mende said that the NGO seems to have found an “easy target” in the Congolese Government. He questioned its “tendency to shoot on ambulances”. He added that it’s “easy for Human Rights Watch to attack a country like ours”. And that, “Human Rights Watch should be applauded for its courage to always shoot at the weak”. |
| Record number of former Hutu rebels leaves DR Congo - UN mission | |
UN News - June 19, 2009 | |
 | A record number of former Hutu rebels left the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for their home in Rwanda this week, the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the DRC reported today. |
| UN seeks $38 million to help civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - June 17, 2009 | |
 | United Nations agencies and their partners today launched an appeal for $38 million to help nearly 1 million people in need of assistance amid armed attacks and military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
| UN, DRC agree on strengthening joint operation against armed groups | |
Xinhua - June 8, 2009 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Congolese military (FARDC) have agreed to strengthen their joint operation against illegally-armed groups in the vast African nation's far east,a UN spokesman said on Monday. |
| 'Dozens killed' by Rwandan Hutu rebels | |
BBC News - May 13, 2009 | |
| Dozens of people were killed in attacks over the weekend in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN agencies said citing local sources. The reports say local chiefs blamed the attacks on Rwandan Hutu rebels. |
