News | Ituri
| Congolese Rebels Reach Peace Accord Ahead of Elections | |
VOA News - July 27, 2006 | |
 | The United Nations says rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to lay down their weapons in advance of Sunday's elections - the country's first multi-party balloting in more than 40 years. |
| UN mission says rights repression must stop | |
UN News Centre - July 27, 2006 | |
 | Affirming that security forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been routinely abusing journalists and other civilians since the start of its election campaign, the United Nations mission in the country (MONUC) calls for a guarantee of free speech and an end to impunity in a report released today. |
| UN Has Security Concerns for Congo's Elections | |
VOA News - July 26, 2006 | |
 | U.N. officials have expressed confidence in the overall success for Sunday's post-war election in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, but have also raised several security concerns. Some political militants want the vote postponed, pockets of the Congo remain unstable, while many candidates are refusing to campaign. |
| Kinshasa accepts militia leader's plea to join army | |
IRIN - July 17, 2006 | |
 | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has responded positively to a request by a militia leader in the northeastern district of Ituri to be integrated into the national army. |
| UN Peacekeepers Freed, Journalist Killed in Congo | |
VOA News - July 10, 2006 | |
 | Congolese militia fighters released Saturday the five remaining Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers they have been holding since late May, U.N. officials have said. In other developments, gunmen killed a journalist who was a vocal critic of Congos government. |
| Army suspends demobilisation, disarmament | |
IRIN - July 7, 2006 | |
 | The disarmament and demobilisation programme of the Congolese army has been suspended due to lack of funds, according to François Atufuka Mbuze, spokesman for the National Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (CONADER).Atufuka said CONADER had closed 18 orientation centres across the country on 30 June. |
| Deadline for militias to disarm extended to 15 July | |
IRIN - July 6, 2006 | |
 | The deadline for militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern district of Ituri to voluntarily surrender and join a disarmament and demobilisation programme has been extended to 15 July.The deadline has been extended because we are seeing up to 250 combatants coming to disarm every day. |
| Gunmen Retake Congo Stronghold from UN, Army | |
VOA News - July 5, 2006 | |
 | Congolese gunmen have launched an offensive and retaken their stronghold in the lawless east. The capture of Tchei, in Ituri district, is a setback for the U.N. and government forces that chased militia away just weeks ago and are struggling to pacify Congo ahead of elections later this month. |
| Militiamen disarm ahead of deadline | |
IRIN - June 29, 2006 | |
 | At least 1,100 former militias have arrived at transit sites in Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past three days, ahead of a 30 June ultimatum by the Congolese army for them to disarm, an official said. |
| Congo Faces Challenges in Holding First Democratic Poll in 40 Years | |
VOA News - June 29, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo is beginning campaigning for the first democratic elections in over 40 years. The difficulties the nation faces in staging such an election are evident in the fact that the date has been pushed back several times over the past year. VOA's Catherine Maddux examines how prepared the vast, war-scarred nation is to hold the ballot on July 30. |
