News | North Kivu
| MONUC: Mobile operational bases aid refugee return in eastern DRC | |
MONUC - November 21, 2007 | |
 | Nearly 3,000 households that were displaced between February and September 2007, following confrontations between the FARDC and the militia of the FNI, have now returned to their homes. |
| South Kivu governor sacked over violence | |
BBC News - November 15, 2007 | |
 | The governor of South Kivu region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been impeached for failing to protect the state from violence. |
| Goma: William Swing and five ambassadors meet president Kabila | |
MONUC - October 17, 2007 | |
 | William Swing, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the DRC and five country ambassadors from the US, France, UK, Belgium and South Africa met DRC President Joseph Kabila in Goma, North Kivu province on Monday 15 October 2007. |
| DRC And Nkunda Have Agreed On a Fragile Cease-Fire | |
VOA News - September 9, 2007 | |
After days of heavy fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and renegade General Laurent Nkunda, the two sides reached an agreement on Thursday (9-6-07) to observe a cease-fire. The two sides have reportedly agreed to solve their differences through dialogue. | |
| Hell on earth - systematic rape in Eastern Congo | |
The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (JHA) - August 10, 2007 | |
Often the women are kidnapped while working in the fields or on the way to fetch water, food or firewood. Often kidnappings occur during raids of villages by armed attackers, who often come in groups of two to five.The victims are taken from the villages into the forest where they are held captive and are gang raped for days or months. | |
| No decision yet on amnesty for dissident general, official says | |
IRIN - January 19, 2007 | |
 | Discussions are still continuing on whether to grant amnesty to the dissident general, Laurent Nkunda, who led an anti-government rebellion in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Deputy Defence Minister for Army Integration, Bernard Mena Mboyo, said on Friday. |
