News | Equateur
| UNHCR - 640,000 internally displaced in Kivu provinces between June and July 2007 | |
MONUC - August 16, 2007 | |
 | The insecurity in eastern DRC continues to cause huge internal displacement of people, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and humanitarian agencies continue to face this problem, as well as that of refugees in both the DRC and its border countries. Marcellin Hepie, UNHCR Deputy Representative in the DRC, gives us a progress report on the current situation. |
| 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. | |
| South Kivu: 4,500 sexual violence cases in the first six months of this year alone | |
MONUC - July 27, 2007 | |
 | According to Prof. Yakin Erturk, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Violence against Women "the situation in the Kivus is the worst crisis I have encountered so far." Professor Erturk denounced this situation during the conference in Kinshasa on 27 July 2007. |
| UN mission says opposition forces in DR Congo have disarmed, awaiting handover | |
UN News Service - April 5, 2007 | |
 | After clashing violently with Government troops in the capital Kinshasa last month, opposition forces and their dependents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) currently under United Nations protection have disarmed, the world body's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) said today. |
| MONUC: One must not establish a climate of persecution against the opposition | |
MONUC - April 4, 2007 | |
 | During the weekly press conference of April 4 2007, MONUC deplored the acts of intimidation and threats of March 22 and 23 last, aimed at many opposition members, including those considered to be associated to the MLC- Mr. Bemba’s political party. |
| MACC: After the Kinshasa conflict, we have found over 20 items of unexploded ordnance | |
MONUC - March 29, 2007 | |
 | After the two day Kinshasa conflict of March 22 to 24 2007, there are some unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the city. The Mine Action Coordination Centre (MACC) appeals to the people of Kinshasa not to 'touch any object they find'. We spoke to MACC director Harouna Ouedrago who explained the risks of UXO, as well as the objectives of their work. |
| Opposition militias join army in Equateur province | |
IRIN - March 29, 2007 | |
 | Militias loyal to opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba have been integrated into the national army in Equateur province, in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), United Nations officials said. |
| Grave human rights abuses by all sides mar DR Congo's transition from war, UN reports | |
UN News Service - March 12, 2007 | |
 | Summary executions, enforced disappearances, mass arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment and torture of civilians for their political affiliations as well as rape continued at an alarming rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a climate of total impunity in the second half of 2006, according to the latest United Nations |
| Illegal Carve-up of Congo Rainforests | |
Greenpeace - February 26, 2007 | |
 | The second largest rainforest in the world -- after the Amazon -- sits in the Congo basin of Africa. Around 21 million hectares (over 51 million acres) of this pristine forest are being illegally logged. We've released new evidence of the extent of this forest crime. |
| At Least 35 Dead in Clashes | |
VOA News - February 1, 2007 | |
 | At least 35 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting against the results of governorship polls in Congo's western-most province. The violence appeared to be the worst since President Joseph Kabila won last year's presidential election. |
