News | FARDC
| 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). |
| Alan Doss: Human Rights Watch attack on MONUC 'shortsighted' | |
Alan Doss/The Washington Times - December 28, 2009 | |
 | The Human Rights Watch report also catalogues numerous atrocities committed by the FDLR. The U.N. Security Council has called for the elimination of this threat. Peaceful relations between the DRC and Rwanda - a prerequisite for peace in the region - are riding on effective military operations against the rebel group. The national security forces of the DRC, with all their failings, are the only instrument the democratically-elected government has to neutralize the FDLR. |
| Blue helmets protect thousands daily, says top UN envoy | |
UN News - December 28, 2009 | |
 | In its report on the mission, Human Rights Watch “brushes aside the crucial role that MONUC plays in protecting tens of thousands of civilians every single day, often in very remote areas,” Alan Doss, the Secretary-General’s Special-Representative, wrote in an op-ed in today’s The Washington Times. |
| UN extends peacekeeping mission in the DRC | |
Congo News Agency - December 23, 2009 | |
 | The resolution asks the Secretary-General to conduct a strategic review of the situation in the DRC and MONUC’s progress toward achieving its mandate and to determine, in close cooperation with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MONUC, the modalities of a reconfiguration of MONUC’s mandate. |
| Ugandan rebels murder, rape, mutilate, displace thousands in DR Congo, Sudan - UN | |
UN News - December 21, 2009 | |
 | In a 10-month rampage of killings, rape and mutilation in neighbouring countries that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has killed some 1,300 civilians, abducted 1,400 more, including hundreds of children and women, and displaced nearly 300,000 others, the United Nations reported today. |
| DR Congo military says more FDLR rebels killed in North Kivu province | |
Xinhua - December 18, 2009 | |
 | The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) killed more Rwandan rebels including a captain in its anti-insurgency operation in the eastern province of North Kivu, the military said on Thursday. Combats against these Rwandan Hutu rebels were reported in the areas of Nyanzale, Bukumbirwa and Kanyabayonga within the Rutshuru territory. One FARDC soldier was killed. |
| 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. |
| Human Rights Watch Calls on FDLR Rebels in Eastern Congo to Investigate Themselves | |
Congo News Agency - December 15, 2009 | |
 | In its latest report on the situation in eastern Congo published on Monday, Human Rights Watch calls on the notoriously infamous rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) to investigate themselves. This is the most naïve recommendation, and there are many, included in this report. |
