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| Kabila Confident He Will Win Re-Election | |
Congo News Agency - October 18, 2011 | |
 | With only 6 weeks left before presidential and parliamentary elections, President Kabila, at a wide-ranging news conference on Tuesday, said that he is confident he will win re-election in November. “I know one thing for sure, I will not lose,” Mr. Kabila replied when asked if he thinks there is a candidate who could beat him. |
| Jean-Pierre Bemba Could Be Kingmaker in DR Congo Presidential Election | |
Congo News Agency - September 30, 2011 | |
 | The former DR Congo Vice-President, who lost the second round of the 2006 presidential elections to President Joseph Kabila, remains a political force to be reckoned with. His support is actively being sought by opposition candidates running for president in this year’s one-round presidential election. |
| Rwandan Rebel Leader Faces ICC on War Crimes Charges | |
VOA News - September 16, 2011 | |
 | A former Rwandan rebel leader has appeared before the International Criminal Court facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, told The Hague court that Mbarushimana represented the “respectable public face” of the FDLR, a Rwandan Hutu rebel group that attacked civilians in Congo's North and South Kivu provinces in 2009. |
| UN envoy tells Security Council of improving security, remaining threats | |
UN News Service - June 9, 2011 | |
 | “There has been significant progress regarding the security situation in recent years in eastern DRC,” said Roger Meece, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), in a briefing to the Council. |
| Germany: Groundbreaking Trial for Congo War Crimes | |
Human Rights Watch - May 2, 2011 | |
 | The trial of two Rwandan rebel leaders arrested in Germany for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo makes the world a smaller place for suspected war criminals, Human Rights Watch said today. |
| Militiamen Sent to Testify in Warlords Trials at ICC | |
L'Avenir - March 28, 2011 | |
 | Four former militiamen, who had been arrested and were being held at the Makala prison in Kinshasa, were flown to the International Criminal Court on Sunday to testify as witnesses for the defense in the cases against Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga. |
| Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana sent to ICC | |
BBC News - January 25, 2011 | |
 | The head of a Rwandan rebel group accused of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been extradited from France to The Hague. Callixte Mbarushimana was arrested in Paris last October, following a request from the International Criminal Court. |
| US President Barack Obama outlines plan to defeat Ugandan LRA rebels | |
BBC News - November 25, 2010 | |
 | US President Barack Obama has outlined a plan to disarm one of Africa's most feared rebel militias, the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army. LRA leaders initially claimed to be fighting to install a theocracy in Uganda based on the Biblical 10 commandments. But they now roam across parts of Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR), as well as north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Bemba Supporters Say War Crimes Trial is Political | |
VOA News - November 23, 2010 | |
 | Supporters of former Congolese rebel leader and former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba say his war crimes trial is politically motivated. He faces two counts of crimes against humanity and three counts of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. |
| Jean-Pierre Bemba War Crimes Trial Begins Monday | |
VOA News - November 21, 2010 | |
| Prosecutors indicted Bemba for two crimes against humanity and three war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic territory during the period from 26th October 2002 to 15th March 2003. |
