| Moroccan UN peacekeepers arrested over sex abuse claims | |
IRIN - February 14, 2005 | |
Six Moroccan soldiers serving on the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), known as MONUC, have been arrested in an ongoing sex abuse scandal, the official Moroccan news agency, the Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), reported on Monday. | |
| Joint verification mechanism now operational | |
IRIN - February 10, 2005 | |
Congolese and Rwandan military officers have activated a joint verification mechanism for the common border between the two countries, an administrator in Congo's eastern province of South Kivu said. | |
| Katanga militias agree to disarm | |
IRIN - February 10, 2005 | |
Leaders of two Mayi-Mayi militia groups in the southeastern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) agreed on Tuesday to disarm their combatants during a ceremonial destruction of weapons in the provincial capital, Lubumbashi. | |
| No sex with locals for peacekeepers | |
IRIN - February 10, 2005 | |
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced on Wednesday that he has banned peacekeepers of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), known as MONUC, from fraternising with locals, UN News reported. | |
| Relief operation begins for thousands of displaced civilians | |
IRIN - February 8, 2005 | |
A new relief operation has begun in district of Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to help tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting in January, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday. | |
| Militiamen burn down Ituri village | |
IRIN - January 28, 2005 | |
Armed militiamen have burnt down a village in the district of Ituri, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, forcing at least 1,500 residents to flee to nearby localities, Rudi Sterz, the interim coordinator of German Agro Action in the area told IRIN on Friday. The affected village, She, is 60 km northeast of Bunia, the main town in Ituri. | |
| Abuses continue around UN buffer zone | |
IRIN - January 7, 2005 | |
Combatants are committing human rights violations near the town of Kanyabayonga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite an uneasy calm following the creation of a UN buffer zone, a UN official said on Thursday. | |
| IDPs in Equateur province begin returning home | |
IRIN - January 3, 2005 | |
The first of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Equateur province returned home as part of a pilot project being undertaken jointly by the government and the UN. | |
| Slow aid delivery to North Kivu despite UN buffer zone | |
IRIN - December 30, 2004 | |
Few of the estimated 100,000 people displaced by fighting earlier this month in the province of North Kivu, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have received humanitarian aid. | |
| UN creates buffer zone in east, but regional administrator objects | |
IRIN - December 22, 2004 | |
The UN announced on Tuesday that it was creating a buffer zone in the province of North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | |
