| 12 Congolese National Police officers on UN mission for the first time | |
MONUC - September 1, 2007 | |
 | Thursday 30 August 2007 marked the official handing over ceremony of UN berets for 12 National Congolese Police (PNC) officers, who will start 12 month tours of duty in UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti and the Ivory Coast. This historic occasion marks the first time ever that Congolese police officers will serve under the UN flag. |
| Journalist Rights Group in DRC Outraged Over Death Sentences | |
VOA News - August 29, 2007 | |
 | A journalist rights group is calling for a retrial in the Democratic Republic of Congo after four men were convicted Tuesday by a military court of killing a journalist and sentenced to death. Congolese police officials say justice has been served, but Reporters Without Borders says the trial has been a farce. |
| UN peacekeepers caught up in continuing unrest in North Kivu | |
IRIN - August 23, 2007 | |
 | Instability in the Rusthuru region of North Kivu, which included an attack on UN peacekeepers, caused the temporary displacement of more than 10,000 people, officials said. |
| UN Mission in Congo National Staff Goes On Strike | |
MONUC - August 23, 2007 | |
 | The National Staff Association of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), has asked the national employees of the mission to observe a "suspension of service" on Thursday 23 August 2007. This decision results from some grievances that are the subject of ongoing discussions between the association and the administration of the mission. |
| Southern African Leaders Face Worsening Zimbabwe Crisis | |
VOA News - August 17, 2007 | |
Leaders of the Southern African Development Community were converging in Lusaka, Zambia, on Wednesday for a summit of regional heads of state to begin Thursday and which SADC and other sources said will focus substantially on the Zimbabwe crisis. | |
| Security Council extends arms embargo against militias in DR Congo | |
UN News - August 13, 2007 | |
 | The Security Council today extended by six months its arms embargo against militia groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and condemned the continuing illicit flow of weapons into and around the vast African country. |
| 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. | |
| V-DAY, UNICEF call for end to rape, sexual torture against girls in eastern DRC | |
UNICEF - August 7, 2007 | |
 | Highlighting the issue of violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), renowned playwright Eve Ensler has chronicled her first-hand encounters with women in eastern DRC, where sexual violence has become a routine weapon of war. Her account appears in Glamour magazine today. |
| Conviction of Government soldiers in DR Congo welcomed by UN mission | |
UN News - July 30, 2007 | |
The United Nations peacekeeping mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today welcomed the conviction by a Congolese court of nine Government soldiers for killing 31 unarmed civilians last year. | |
| UN Accuses DRC of Excessive Force in Quashing Protests | |
VOA News - July 28, 2007 | |
 | A report Friday by the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights accuses the Democratic Republic of Congo of using excessive force in putting down protests in the Bas-Congo province early this year. More than 100 people were reportedly killed during the clashes. |
