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. | |
IDPs go back to camps as fears of renewed North Kivu violence die down | |
IRIN - November 15, 2007 | |
People have been returning to camps for displaced people (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province after fresh fighting near the main town of Goma prompted up to 40,000 to flee. | |
New pact on armed groups in the Kivus hailed | |
IRIN - November 14, 2007 | |
Analysts have welcomed the latest in a series of agreements between the governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aimed at resolving the perennial threat to regional stability posed by the armed groups in eastern DRC. | |
Renewed Fighting in Congo Displaces 25,000 | |
VOA News - November 13, 2007 | |
An estimated 25,000 people on Tuesday fled camps for the displaced in Congo's restive North Kivu province, after fighting erupted between forces loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army. For VOA, Noel King has more in this report from Goma. | |
Tens of thousands of IDPs on the move again in North Kivu | |
IRIN - November 13, 2007 | |
Up to 40,000 people poured out of two camps for displaced civilians near the main town in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province after fierce fighting broke out nearby, according to the UN. | |
MONUC blames disinformation as protests over aid mount in North Kivu | |
IRIN - November 7, 2007 | |
Growing impatience over aid deliveries to displaced civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo's province of North Kivu has sparked another demonstration against the UN mission there, MONUC, which blamed the unrest on deliberately-spread false rumours. | |
Ban Ki-moon dispatches senior aide to DR Congo's troubled eastern region | |
UN News - October 31, 2007 | |
Voicing concern about the ongoing crisis in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where tens of thousands of people have been displaced by recent fighting, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced that his senior aide will travel to the country for talks with top officials. | |
MONUC denounces the presence of children in FARDC's ranks | |
MONUC - October 31, 2007 | |
At its weekly press conference this Wednesday on 31October, 2007, MONUC declared that around 200 children are enrolled in the FARDC, particularly among brigades deployed to North Kivu. MONUC also indicated that the expulsions of Congolese citizens from Angola to Kasai Occidental continue. | |
DRC North Kivu Militia Leader Surrenders to UN | |
VOA News - October 29, 2007 | |
U.N. and Congolese officials say a local militia leader has surrendered to peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive North Kivu province. The officials say Mai Mai militia leader Kibamba Kasereka turned himself over to U.N. forces earlier Saturday after his fighters were surrounded by government troops. | |
Caught in a web of clashes between armed groups | |
IRIN - October 25, 2007 | |
At Masisi hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, ill and wounded women shifted uncomfortably in their beds as several men and youths in uniform picked at bandages covering their gunshot wounds. |