News | Kiwanja
| Advancing Congo Troops Take Control of Rumangabo From M23 Rebels | |
Radio Okapi - October 28, 2013 | |
 | DR Congo’s army continued its advance north towards M23 rebel strongholds on Monday. After Kibumba, Kiwanja and Rutshuru, it was the turn of Rumangabo to fall under the control of the Congolese Armed Forces, also known as the FARDC. |
| Congo Army Liberates Rutshuru, Kiwanja and Kibumba From M23 Rebels | |
Congo News Agency - October 27, 2013 | |
 | DR Congo’s army has liberated three major towns from the M23 rebels in a span of just three days. It is a dramatic fall for the M23 rebels, who have terrorized hundreds of thousands of civilians in eastern Congo for more than a year. |
| Congo Army Dislodges M23 Rebels From Strategic Town of Kibumba | |
Radio Okapi - October 26, 2013 | |
 | DR Congo's army has recaptured the town of Kibumba, located 27 kilometers north of Goma, in North Kivu province. The spokesman of the Congolese Armed Forces in the province, Col. Olivier Hamuli, announced Saturday afternoon that the army, known as FARDC, had taken control of the town. He called on the M23 rebels to disarm. |
| M23 Arrests 110 People Accusing Rebels of Looting At Rally | |
Robert Esaki - July 27, 2013 | |
 | In what looks like increasing acts of desperation and paranoia, the M23 rebels ordered people to attend a rally in Rutshuru, but what should have been a pro-rebel rally turned instead into a protest when people accused the rebels of looting, among other abuses. |
| M23 Rebels Kill, Rape Civilians in Eastern Congo: Human Rights Watch | |
Human Rights Watch - July 22, 2013 | |
 | M23 rebels have summarily executed at least 44 people and raped at least 61 women and girls since March 2013 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Local residents and rebel deserters reported recent forced recruitment of men and boys by the M23 in both Rwanda and Congo. |
| UN Sanctions FDLR Leaders, CNDP Rebel Commander Integrated into Army | |
Congo News Agency - December 02, 2010 | |
 | The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted measures including travel bans and asset freezes on three Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) leaders and a former Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) commander integrated in the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC), on Wednesday, at the request of the permanent missions to the United Nations of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. |
| Human Rights: MONUC releases reports on Kiwanja and Kanyabayonga incidents | |
MONUC - September 09, 2009 | |
 | This first report documents the main human rights abuses that were committed and the legal framework that applies to them, as well as the chain of command that was in operation at the time of the perpetration of the abuses. Therein, the UNJHRO formulates several recommendations to the Congolese authorities, the parties to the conflict, and the international community, notably MONUC to improve its capacity to protect civilian populations. |
| Security Council delegation meets Congolese President, heads to Liberia | |
UN News - May 19, 2009 | |
 | A United Nations Security Council delegation on a week-long trip to Africa met today with President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a spokesperson for the world body said. |
| Return of Hutu Militias Sparks 100,000 New Displacements in Eastern Congo | |
VOA News - April 27, 2009 | |
 | A resumption of fighting in lands in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo previously claimed by rebel Hutu militias has added more than 100,000 newly displaced people to Congo's swollen itinerant rolls in the past two months. |
| Amnesty International: Laurent Nkunda and Bosco Ntaganda must face justice | |
Amnesty International - January 28, 2009 | |
 | The arrest of Laurent Nkunda should be followed by swift steps to prosecute him on charges that he committed war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Amnesty International said today. Any trial must be fair and exclude the death penalty. If states fail to do so, then the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to seek to prosecute him. Since 2004, the ICC Prosecutor has been investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC, particularly in the Ituri region, and has sought and obtained arrest warrants. |
