News | Orientale Province
| Military Operations Have Weakened the LRA, Says UN | |
Radio Okapi - February 23, 2011 | |
 | The military operation codenamed "Umbrella" and other joint special operations against Ugandan LRA rebels have significantly reduced their freedom of action and maneuvering space in Orientale Province, the military spokesman for the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC, Lt-Colonel Mamadou Gaye, said on Wednesday during a press briefing in Kinshasa. |
| UN launches patrols to head off rebel violence during holiday season | |
UN News Service - December 1, 2010 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deployed troops as a preventive measure in Orientale Province ahead of the end-of-year holiday season, which has in the past seen increased attacks by illegal armed groups. |
| Behind Human Rights Watch Report on LRA, a Plea for MONUC to Remain in the Congo | |
Congo News Agency - March 29, 2010 | |
 | The release of this report just as the Security Council is set to respond to a request by Congolese authorities for the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping force in the DRC by June 2011 is no coincidence. In reading the report, one quickly realizes that behind the reported facts lies a plea for MONUC to remain in the DRC. |
| Reports That LRA's Kony is Hiding in Darfur Alarm South Sudan | |
VOA News - March 19, 2010 | |
 | Following reports that the leader of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels may be hiding in a Khartoum-controlled region of Darfur in Sudan, a researcher for the Washington-based Enough Project says it is still not clear where he is. There is concern that LRA forces are preparing to launch attacks in South Sudan during next month's national elections. |
| Ugandan rebels murder, rape, mutilate, displace thousands in DR Congo, Sudan - UN | |
UN News - December 21, 2009 | |
| In a 10-month rampage of killings, rape and mutilation in neighbouring countries that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has killed some 1,300 civilians, abducted 1,400 more, including hundreds of children and women, and displaced nearly 300,000 others, the United Nations reported today. |
| UN: LRA Attacks in Eastern Congo Displace Thousands | |
VOA News - August 28, 2009 | |
 | The UN refugee agency reports at least 125,000 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to flee from villages attacked by the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, in the last three weeks. This brings the number of people displaced in Haute Uele district of Orientale Province by the LRA since September to more than one-half million. |
| DR Congo says foreign troops to pull back | |
XINHUA - February 22, 2009 | |
 | Rwanda, Uganda and southern Sudan will withdraw their troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) next week after joint operations against insurgency in the war-torn central African country, the government announced here on Saturday. |
| Survivors of Ugandan rebel massacres in DR Congo seek help from UN | |
UN News - February 10, 2009 | |
 | Angry and traumatized survivors of massacres by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed nearly 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today sought shelter, food, medicine – and justice – from the top United Nations relief official. |
| UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels | |
UN News - January 6, 2009 | |
| The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). |
| UNHCR Appeals for More UN, Congolese Troops to Protect Civilians | |
VOA News - January 1, 2009 | |
 | The UN refugee agency is appealing to the Congolese government to send more troops to protect civilians in Orientale Province in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in the area over the Christmas period. |
