President Joseph Kabila meets Chinese army deputy chief of the General Staff | |
Xinhua - March 12, 2010 | |
President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo met here Friday with Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, to discuss the development of bilateral ties and military cooperation. | |
UN: 90 Rwandan Rebels Killed in Eastern DRC | |
VOA News - March 10, 2010 | |
A United Nations official says Democratic Republic of Congo army troops have killed 90 Rwandan Hutu rebels. Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said Wednesday that the rebels were killed during recent army operations in Congo's North and South Kivu provinces. | |
U.S. Special Forces Begin Training Congo Army Battalion | |
Congo News Agency - February 23, 2010 | |
The U.S. military command for Africa (Africom) has started training 1,000 Congolese troops in the eastern city of Kisangani. The $30 million training program is expected to last eight months. | |
Official Says MONUC Continues Help with Integrating Ex-Combatants Into Army | |
VOA News - February 11, 2010 | |
An official of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) says the group has been successful in helping with the integration of tens of thousands of former combatants into Congo’s national army. | |
Russia gets involved in the reform of the Congolese Armed Forces | |
ACP - January 26, 2010 | |
Russia has awarded thirty scholarships to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), Anatoly Klimenko, the Russian ambassador in Kinshasa, said on Tuesday after meeting with the Minister of National Defense and Veterans Affairs, Charles Muando Nsimba. | |
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. | |
Peacekeepers Plan Operation Amani Leo with FARDC in North Kivu | |
MONUC - January 19, 2010 | |
Senior military leaders from the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUC, have been meeting their counterparts in the Congolese Army, the FARDC, to plan Operation Amani Leo. Amani Leo, which means ‘Peace Today’, began at the start of the month. | |
DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi to hold meeting of chiefs of general staff | |
Xinhua - January 18, 2010 | |
The army chiefs of general staff of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda will open a meeting on Tuesday in Matadi, the provincial capital of Bas-Congo, to discuss the security situation in the sub- region, according to the military. | |
MONUC outlines cooperation with FARDC in Operation Amani Leo | |
MONUC - January 7, 2010 | |
The Operation's principal objectives are to protect civilian populations, clear strategic areas of negative forces, hold territory liberated from FDLR control, and assist in restoring State authority in these zones. The Special Representative also informed the Council that Operation Amani Leo would include preventive interventions aimed at stopping the FDLR from regrouping and attacking civilian populations and re-occupying major mining areas. | |
DR Congo launches 'Amani Leo' military operation | |
Xinhua - January 2, 2010 | |
The Democratic Republic of Congo has ended the "Kimia 2" operation in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and launched "Amani Leo" (a Kiswahili word for "peace today"), according to the military. Kimia 2 has already achieved its objectives with nearly 5,000 combatants of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) neutralized by the FARDC with the logistical support from the UN mission in DR Congo (MONUC). |