News | FARDC
| Arbitrary killings, rape part of ongoing abuses in the east | |
IRIN - April 19, 2007 | |
 | Executions and rape of civilians have continued in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) according to a report published by the United Nations detailing human rights abuses during the month of March. |
| Senator Bemba leaves for Portugal | |
MONUC - April 11, 2007 | |
 | Senator J.P. Bemba, who was finally authorised to go to Portugal for medical treatment, left Kinshasa this Wednesday morning 11 April 2007 at 2am in his private Boeing 727, accompanied by his wife and five children. |
| After violence in Kinshasa, senator Bemba takes off for Portugal | |
MISNA - April 11, 2007 | |
 | Today at 2:00a.m. local time, Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba, who has been at the South African Embassy since the tragic events of March 22-24, departed from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for Portugal to receive medical treatment. |
| FNI militia leader Peter Karim surrenders to DRC government | |
MONUC - April 9, 2007 | |
 | Peter Karim, commander of the last remaining Ituri militia group - the FNI - surrendered to the DRC government with seven of his officers on Saturday 7 April 2007 at Kpandroma, 90 kilometres north east of district capital Bunia. |
| EU heads express 'indignation' over Kinshasa violence | |
MONUC - March 27, 2007 | |
 | At a press conference in Kinshasa this Tuesday March 27 2007, the representatives of the European Union countries to the DRC expressed their 'indignation' at the recourse to the violent armed Kinshasa conflict of March 22 to 25 2007, 'when all routes to dialogue were not yet exhausted.' German ambassador Karl Albrecht Wokalek said the death toll 'could reach 600.' |
| Calm returns to Kinshasa | |
MONUC - March 24, 2007 | |
 | Calm has returned to Kinshasa this Saturday March 24 2007, after two days of heavy fighting in the central district of Gombe between members of ex vice President's Bemba's guards and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC), which claimed the lives of at least 60 people, and left many wounded. |
| Situation remains tense in Kinshasa | |
MONUC - March 23, 2007 | |
 | The situation remains tense in Kinshasa this Friday March 23 2007, after heavy fighting between the guards of ex vice president Jean Pierre Bemba and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC), which has raged in the capital’s central Gombe district since yesterday morning. |
| MONUC continues to mediate for a definitive cease fire | |
MONUC - March 22, 2007 | |
 | The armed fighting which started in Kinshasa at 11am this Thursday March 22, 2007, between the guards of former vice President Jean Pierre Bemba and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC), has dissipated, as MONUC continues its mediation efforts in order to obtain a complete cease fire. |
| Army, police involved in human rights abuses in the east - report | |
IRIN - March 20, 2007 | |
 | Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Congo's national army and the police have been involved in human rights violations in the eastern Ituri region, and are allegedly responsible for growing insecurity in North Kivu, according to a United Nations report. |
| US State Department report on Human Rights Conditions in the DRC in 2006 | |
US State Department - March 19, 2007 | |
 | Armed groups continued to commit numerous, serious abuses--some of which may constitute war crimes--including unlawful killings, disappearances, and torture. They also recruited and retained child soldiers, compelled forced labor, and committed serious sexual abuses and other possible war crimes. |
