News | South Kivu
| Two Days of Mourning Declared after 235 Die from Oil Tanker Explosion | |
Congo News Agency - July 4, 2010 | |
 | President Jospeh Kabila has declared two days of mourning following the death of 235 people in an oil tanker truck explosion in eastern Congo. In a speech to the nation on Sunday, president Kabila said that the Congolese flag will fly at half-mast on Monday and Tuesday to honor the memory of those who lost their lives on Friday night in the town of Sange, near Uvira. |
| Oil tanker blaze 'kills 200' in eastern Congo | |
BBC News - July 3, 2010 | |
 | At least 200 people are feared dead after an oil tanker exploded and set fire to parts of a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The truck, travelling from Tanzania, overturned in the village of Sange. |
| Security Council agrees to convert UN mission in DR Congo into stabilization force | |
UN News - May 28, 2010 | |
 | The Security Council today extended the current mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by one month and agreed to transform the operation so that from then on it becomes a stabilization mission. |
| South Kivu Governor Resigns | |
Radio Okapi - April 20, 2010 | |
 | South Kivu province governor Louis Leonce Chirimwami Muderwa resigned on Monday after 17 months in office. Investigators from an ad hoc committee of the South Kivu Provincial Assembly had filed several grievances against the governor. |
| ICRC confirms release of eight staff members in South Kivu | |
ICRC - April 16, 2010 | |
| The eight staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held since 9 April by an armed group operating in South Kivu province were released today in the Fizi area and handed over to ICRC personnel. |
| UN agency assisting thousands uprooted by insecurity in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - January 26, 2010 | |
 | The United Nations refugee agency said today it is assisting over 100,000 civilians who have fled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent months due to the ongoing military offensive against Hutu militants and banditry by armed groups. |
| UN forces, army adopt new directives with civilian protection at core | |
UN News - December 16, 2009 | |
 | United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the national army adopted new directives today for operations against rebels with the protection of civilians as the core focus following reports of massacres and other serious human rights violations by Congolese soldiers. |
| Amnesty International: more prosecutions should follow for war crimes in the Kivus | |
Amnesty International - November 19, 2009 | |
| Amnesty International welcomes the arrest by the German authorities of Ignace Murwanashyaka, President of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), and his deputy, Straton Musoni, on 17 November 2009 as an important step forward in addressing impunity and establishing accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in eastern DRC. |
| At least 35,000 Congolese civilians displaced by fighting in South Kivu province | |
UNHCR - July 24, 2009 | |
 | An outbreak of fighting in the eastern Congolese province of South Kivu has forced more than 35,000 civilians to flee their homes in the past two weeks. The latest population movement brings the total number of civilians to have been displaced in South Kivu since January as a result of clashes between government forces and Rwandan rebels, and reprisal attacks on civilians, to about 536,000 people. |
| Top UN humanitarian official condemns new 'terror and upheaval' | |
UN News - April 30, 2009 | |
 | The top United Nations humanitarian official today condemned a resurgence of violence against civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid a series of offensives against a Rwandan militia group. |
