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, 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. |
UN blue helmets in DRC free 23 child soldiers | |
Xinhua - May 5, 2009 | |
![]() | The children had been recruited by the mainly Tutsi rebel militia, the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP), before joining the FARDC during the accelerated integration process. |
Top UN humanitarian official condemns new 'terror and upheaval' | |
UN News - April 30, 2009 | |
![]() | The top United Nations humanitarian official today condemned a resurgence of violence against civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid a series of offensives against a Rwandan militia group. |
New Report to Detail Failed Military Operation Against Hutu Rebels | |
VOA News - April 29, 2009 | |
![]() | A new report expected to be released Wednesday describes the joint military operation of Congo and Rwanda to flush out Rwandan Hutu rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a failure. The report says the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels are still attacking ordinary Congolese despite the offensive against them. |
DR Congo, Rwanda accomplish 65% of joint military operation | |
XINHUA - February 15, 2009 | |
![]() | The joint forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and Rwanda have accomplished 65 percent of the military operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels, dealing a heavy blow to the insurgency, according to the Congolese government. Communication Minister Lambert Mende unveiled the achievements in the capital Kinshasa at a press conference, saying the government is totally satisfied with the joint military operation which has not caused any civilian casualties. |
MONUC urges Rwandan Hutu militia to disarm and return home | |
UN News - February 2, 2009 | |
![]() | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has extended an olive branch to the ethnic Rwandan Hutu militia involved in armed conflict in the east of the country, urging combatants to hand in their weapons and repatriate. |
UN-backed talks in DR Congo making slow progress, envoy tells Security Council | |
VOA News - January 15, 2009 | |
![]() | Tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are beginning to thaw as on-going peace talks, aimed at ending fighting in the east of the DRC between the Government and the main rebel militia in the region, are making slow progress, the United Nations envoy facilitating negotiations told the Security Council today. |
Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase | |
UN News - January 8, 2009 | |
![]() | The UN envoy is currently holding consultations, including on the possibility of holding a gathering this month of the leaders of Great Lakes nations to update them on progress made so far and obstacles that remain in achieving peace between the Government and the CNDP. |
Ugandan rebels said to massacre civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - December 26, 2008 | |
![]() | According to the reports, the rebels, fleeing a joint military operation by the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush them out of a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, committed grave violations of human rights against civilians in Faradje, 120 kilometres east of Dungu, killing the villagers, plundering and destroying houses. |