News | Joseph Kabila
| Protest Letter: In DRC, a nationwide pattern of attacks raises alarm | |
Committee to Protect Journalists - June 27, 2007 | |
 | We are writing to express our alarm at a disturbing nationwide pattern of attacks on the news media. Since the arrival of your government on February 24, eight broadcasters were raided by government security forces in connection with their news coverage, and one journalist was killed amid increasingly insecure conditions, according to CPJ research. These events undermine Information Minister Toussaint Tshilombo's statement on World Press Freedom Day that press freedom is respected in the DRC. |
| UN Security Council meeting with political authorities in DRC | |
MONUC - June 20, 2007 | |
 | Following their arrival in Kinshasa on Tuesday night June 19 2007, the UN Security Council delegation have met this morning with President Joseph Kabila and acting Prime Minister Mr. Nzanga Mobutu, as well as the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, the Interior, Human Rights and Planning. |
| DRC Opposition Dismisses President's Military Reshuffle | |
VOA News - June 15, 2007 | |
 | Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have dismissed President Joseph Kabila's reshuffle of the top brass of the military as a sham. The reshuffle comes after the president urged the army and the police to ensure peace and stability across the country. But opposition parties claim the reshuffle is aimed at putting Kabila's aides in top defense positions. |
| DRC President Kabila to visit South Africa | |
Xinhua - June 9, 2007 | |
 | Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila will visit South Africa next week, the first one since he won the central African country's historic elections late last year. |
| Bukavu on the Congolese-Rwandan border: A city at the crossroads of conflict | |
Global Voices - Jennifer Brea - May 21, 2007 | |
 | Bukavu is a city of survivors. During the First Congo War （1996-1997），Bukavu was caught in the middle of fighting between Tutsi government forces and the Hutu that fled to the regionafter the Rwandan genocide. Government and rebel forces clashed there during the Second Congo War (1998-2003). In 2004, the city fell to soldiers led by General Nkunda, a dissident pro-Tutsi Congolese general, and in just three days, some 16,000 women were raped. |
| Louise Arbour: I'm encouraged by the mobilization of civil society in the fight against impunity | |
MONUC - May 16, 2007 | |
 | United Nations High Commissioner for human rights Louise Arbour spoke on May 15 2007 on the UN radio in the DRC- Radio Okapi - on issues relating to the fight against impunity and the reform of the justice system in the DRC, as well as sexual violence against women. |
| Security Council extends UN peacekeeping force in DR Congo until year's end | |
UN News - May 15, 2007 | |
 | Aiming to help the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cement stability, the Security Council today extended the deployment of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there until the end of this year. |
| Report: Congo among worst in the world on press freedom | |
CPJ - May 2, 2007 | |
 | Three nations in sub-Saharan Africa are among the places worldwide where press freedom has deteriorated the most over the last five years, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. |
| Congo Military Tribunal Acquits Woman of Inciting Supreme Court Arson | |
VOA News - April 30, 2007 | |
 | A military tribunal in Democratic Republic of Congo has acquitted a woman accused of inciting the arson of the Supreme Court. The trial against opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's lawyer, has been a test case for human rights in Congo, as Franz Wild reports for VOA from Kinshasa. |
