| More than 20 UN personnel killed in 2006 | |
UN News Centre - January 3, 2007 | |
 | Fatal attacks against United Nations personnel last year claimed the lives of at least 22 peacekeepers and civilian staff, mostly in southern Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Sudan, and Afghanistan, the world body's staff union said today, as it called for greater effort to bring those responsible to justice |
| ICC defers militia leader's hearing | |
IRIN - June 1, 2006 | |
The International Criminal Court will hold the confirmation hearing in the case against former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga on 28 September, three month later than the initial date set, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said. | |
| ICC reviewing suit against ex-president, official says | |
IRIN - April 27, 2006 | |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is reviewing an application filed by the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) against former President Ange-Felix Patasse and four of his aides, to decide whether or not the prosecutor's office would order an inquiry into their alleged crimes, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said. | |
| Ituri warlord faces first trial at ICC in The Hague | |
IRIN - March 21, 2006 | |
A Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday, on charges of conscripting children and using them to participate in hostilities during 2002 and 2003. | |
| DR Congo must punish those responsible for fatal attacks on UN, Security Council says | |
UN News Service - January 25, 2006 | |
The Security Council today called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take immediate steps to bring to justice those responsible for Monday?s attack on United Nations peacekeepers, which left eight of them dead and five wounded. | |
| Armed group kills 8 UN peacekeepers in Garamba park | |
IRIN - January 23, 2006 | |
An armed, unidentified group killed eight peacekeepers from Guatemala and injured five others on Monday, during an ambush in Garamba National Park, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) near the borders of Sudan and Uganda, according to the United Nations Mission in the DRC (MONUC). | |
| UN says no sign of LRA in the east, UN Mission says | |
IRIN - November 10, 2005 | |
Reports that Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have returned to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have not yet been substantiated, according to the military spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC). | |
| MONUC deploys into east DR of Congo where Ugandan-based soldiers briefly seen | |
VOA News - November 9, 2005 | |
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) is assisting the country's troops in cordon and search missions in the troubled east, where Ugandan rebels have been sighted and into which Ugandan-based soldiers were reported to have crossed briefly last month. | |
| Hunt for LRA rebels intensifies, MONUC deploys troops to border | |
IRIN - November 2, 2005 | |
The hunt for Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) intensified on Wednesday when the UN mission there, known as MONUC, deployed a team of observers to the border with Sudan and announced that it would send 150 peacekeepers by the end of the week. | |
| Region yet to discuss rebel menace | |
IRIN - October 28, 2005 | |
A meeting of representatives of the governments of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda on ways of handling foreign armed groups based in northeastern DRC did not take place on Thursday in Uganda as had been announced earlier, a Ugandan government official said. | |
