| EU Ministers Discuss Force to Help Safeguard Congo Elections | |
VOA News - March 6, 2006 | |
European Union defense ministers are meeting in Innsbruck, Austria Monday to try to bolster support for an EU military peacekeeping force in Democratic Republic of Congo. | |
| Stakes high for vote on draft constitution | |
IRIN - December 15, 2005 | |
Almost 25 million voters in the DRC could prepare the way for the country's first presidential and parliamentary elections if they accept the draft constitution that is to be presented to them on Sunday in a referendum, senior diplomats said in Kinshasa. | |
| EU calls for revival of regional economic bloc | |
IRIN - December 6, 2005 | |
The European Union (EU) commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, Louis Michel, has called for the revival of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries of Africa(the Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs, or CEPGL), that collapsed in 1998 as a result of war in the region. | |
| 170,000 get clean drinking water | |
IRIN - October 12, 2005 | |
A humanitarian aid association, Solidarités, launched on Wednesday a drinking water distribution network for 170,000 people in North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | |
| Army to start expelling foreign fighters on 30 September | |
IRIN - September 8, 2005 | |
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will on 30 September begin using force to expell all foreign rebel fighters in the country, a spokesman for President Joseph Kabila said on Thursday. | |
| UN says it needs an extra US $190 million for polls | |
IRIN - July 14, 2005 | |
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a two-page report to the Security Council in which he gave details of almost US $190 million in additional costs the UN requires to support upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | |
| Elections: sufficient funds to finance vote | |
MISNA - July 12, 2005 | |
The donor nations, convened yesterday in Brussels to collect funds to finance the first elections of the Democratic Republic of Congo, contributed another 100-million Euro. | |
| Donors agree to provide €85 million more for polls | |
IRIN - July 12, 2005 | |
European donors and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo committed themselves on Tuesday to provide an additional €85 million ($100 million) for democratic elections in the central African country, but officials say more money is still needed. | |
| EU to insert experts into national defence | |
IRIN - May 3, 2005 | |
The European Union (EU) announced on Monday it would be assigning EU military and security advisers to posts within various key security sections of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s administration, including the private office of the minister of defence | |
| Insecurity creates food shortages in Ituri | |
IRIN - April 4, 2005 | |
Once renowned for its food production, Djugu, a territory in Ituri, is rapidly degenerating into a food-deficit zone, according to local agriculture experts and UN agencies. | |
