News | LRA
| Ugandan Rebel Leader Calls for Return to Negotiations | |
VOA News - June 23, 2008 | |
 | "As the chairman of the Lord's Resistance Army I want these peace talks to resume back again to Juba," he said. "I want to go to table back again to Juba and I need also not to fight again with Uganda government." |
| DR Congo troops prepare to move in on Ugandan rebels | |
XINHUA - June 19, 2008 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will very soon launch a new operation to track down and expel elements of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, from the east of the country, according to official sources. |
| ICC Arrest Jean-Pierre Bemba | |
ICC - May 24, 2008 | |
 | Jean-Pierre Bemba, charged by the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Central African Republic, was today arrested in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Bemba is chairman of the Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC), an armed group which intervened in the 2002-2003 armed conflict in Central African Republic (CAR) and pursued a plan of terrorizing and brutalizing innocent civilians, in particular during a campaign of massive rapes and looting. Mr Bemba had already used the same tactics in the past, in CAR, in the DRC, always leaving a trail of death and destruction behind him. |
| LRA regional atrocities demand action | |
Human Rights Watch - May 19, 2008 | |
| International action is needed to end the Lord's Resistance Army's reported new spree of abductions and sexual violence and to help execute arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for the group's leaders, Human Rights Watch said today. |
| Aru: Congolese flag flies again in Kengezi base | |
MONUC - February 6, 2008 | |
 | After a successful meeting held in southern Sudan on 2 February 2008, between the governor of Orientale province, Medard Autsai Asenga, and his Sudanese counterpart of the Province of Central Equateur, Major General Clément Wani Konga, an agreement was concluded to put an end to an old frontier conflict, exacerbated by the incidents of 24January last in Kengezi base. |
| Child recruitment continues in over one dozen countries, reports Ban Ki-moon | |
UN News - January 29, 2008 | |
 | The practice continues in Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic (CAR), Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Somalia, Sudan, Sri Lanka and Uganda, Mr. Ban notes in his latest report on children and armed conflict, covering the period from October 2006 to August 2007. |
| The United States Wants Nkunda To Surrender And Go Into Exile | |
Congo Planet - November 30, 2007 | |
 | The United States government has asked renegade general Laurent Nkunda to go into exile and allow his troops to join the integration process into the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC). |
| States must arrest International Criminal Court suspects, official says at UN | |
UN News - November 22, 2007 | |
 | The International Criminal Court (ICC) has created a working body of law since its inception and the onus is now on States Parties to enforce the court's decisions, especially its arrest warrants, and bring in war crimes suspects so they can face trial, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said today. |
| Congo Militia Leader Faces First ICC Trial In March | |
VOA News - November 12, 2007 | |
 | The International Criminal Court has set a March trial date for Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, the first person to face trial at the world court. The court says Lubanga's trial will start on March 31 of next year. The court also told prosecutors to make available to defense lawyers all the evidence they plan to use against Lubanga by December 14. |
| Top Ugandan rebel surrenders in neighbouring DR Congo | |
UN News - October 23, 2007 | |
A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, the northern Ugandan rebel group, has surrendered in the northeast of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations peacekeeping mission to that country reported today. | |
