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Goma – The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Goma, eastern Democratic republic of Congo, hours after a rebel group fighting government forces nearby said they would impose a cease-fire to permit the visit to proceed. The M23 rebels and the Congolese army had been fighting for three days in Mutaho, about 15km from Goma. An M23 spokesperson said on
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Goma - Rebels from the M23 movement and the army fought on Monday just north of Goma, a regional capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that the rebels had occupied briefly in November, both sides said. An M23 spokesperson, Amani Kabasha, said the clashes were taking place 12km north of Goma. Colonel Olivier Hamuli, spokesman for the DRC's
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Goma - The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said on Saturday. "We found his body yesterday in an advanced state of decay. It showed signed of strangulation according to the doctor who examined him on the scene. We couldn't
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Kinshasa - Desperate to save children from being used as soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, residents of the notorious "Triangle of Death" have taken matters into their own hands, launching the first wide-scale campaign to end the practice in the remote and volatile region. The United Nations has several ongoing efforts to stop the enlistment of children in
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Goma — Entrepreneur Gilbert Makelele wants armed groups in his part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to wake up and smell the coffee. "You should tell the population to grow coffee, as it's the best way for them to make money," he told a militia member during a recent visit to the town of Kalonge, where he and
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Democratic Republic of Congo troops raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, in the country's volatile east after they fled from advancing M23 rebels in late November, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. The majority of the rapes by the Congolese army (FARDC) occurred in Minova during a two-day period, and most
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Attackers killed a Pakistani peacekeeper in an ambush on Tuesday in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations announced. The UN leader Ban Ki-moon was "appalled" by the latest attack on UN peacekeepers and an investigation has been started, said spokesperson Martin Nesirky. The attack was staged in South Kivu province on a UN mission military convoy "by
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Bakavu — At the end of March, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 2098. This not only extended the mandate of MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), until 2014, but also catered for the creation of an Intervention Brigade, a new special unit tasked with conducting "targeted offensive operations" against rebel groups.
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Prosecutors have contested the testimony of a former insider in Jean-Pierre Bemba's group, who testified that the accused did not issue orders to his troops during operations in the Central African Republic (CAR). The witness said Central African authorities commanded and controlled the troops. During cross-examination, prosecution lawyer Shkelzen Zeneli put it to 'Witness D04-39' that witness testimony indicated that
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Kinshasa - A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced 12 rights activists to 20 years in prison each for planning a march to protest high water and electricity bills and mismanagement of their province. The western Bandundu city regional court convicted them of rebellion and conspiracy. African human rights group Asadho issued a statement shortly after
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has suspended 12 senior officers over mass rapes in the strife-torn east of the country, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday. The action follows pressure from the United Nations which had threatened to withdraw co-operation with units implicated in 126 rapes in the eastern town of Minova in November as the army retreated from
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Kampala - A spokesperson for the Congolese rebel group M23 says peace talks with the Congolese government have resumed in the Ugandan capital. Rene Abandi, who heads M23's delegation to the talks in Kampala, said on Monday that both parties had met separately with their Ugandan mediator. The talks, which started in December under the banner of a regional bloc,
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Congolese rebel Bosco Ntanganda, wanted by International Criminal Court for war crimes, yesterday, surrendered to the US Embassy in Kigali, the Rwanda and the US governments have confirmed. Rwanda's Foreign Minister and Government Spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo, who broke the news on Twitter, said in a statement: "We've just learned that Gen Ntaganda presented himself at the US Embassy early this
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Brazzaville — An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities. "Heavy rain in the port city in recent weeks and sanitation problems triggered the cholera
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Kinshasa - Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition figure Etienne Tshisekedi returned to his country from South Africa on Sunday to be escorted directly to his home by a police convoy that prevented him from meeting with party supporters. Tshisekedi, leader of the UDPS party, had called on members of his party to mobilise for his arrival but they were
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Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sent 3 000 to 4 000 people looking for refuge around a UN camp in Kitchanga, North Kivu, deputy UN spokesperson Eduardo del Buey said on Thursday. The fighting broke out just days after regional leaders signed a peace deal pledging to abandon any support for armed militia trying to gain
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Goma - Despite the signing of a Democratic Republic of Congo peace accord on Sunday, this Central African country remains unsettled by signs of a return to war. The peace agreement, signed in Ethiopia by 11 neighbouring countries and backed by the United Nations, elicited much praise from African and other world leaders who said it points the way to
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Goma - Fighting between rival factions of the M23 rebel movement in the northeastern Rutshuru region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has left 10 dead, a hospital source in Rutshuru said on Monday. The provincial hospital said that 10 bodies were counted after the clashes on Sunday night, while two injured men were taken in for medical treatment. The
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The alleged kingpin behind a plot to overthrow Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has appeared in Pretoria Magistrate's Court, Business Day reported on Tuesday. Etienne Kabila Taratibu appeared in court on Monday and would remain in custody. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Medupe Simasiku said the charges that would be brought against Kabila Taratibu were outlined during Monday's proceedings.
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Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested the leader of a rebel coalition based in the volatile South Kivu province, an aide to the provincial governor said Monday. Gustave Bagayamukwe Tadji, head of the Union of Revolutionary Forces of Congo (UFRC), was arrested Sunday in Uvira on the shore of Lake Tanganyika south of the provincial capital Bukavu,
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Bunia — For the past 10 months, a little-known conflict in a marginalized corner of northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has left a trail of killing, abduction, rape and forced displacement, with few signs of an imminent resolution. The epicentre of the conflict is a vast forest reserve covering some 13,700sqkm in Orientale Province. Home to and named after
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The DR Congo’s Africa Cup of Nations campaign was in turmoil Friday as bitter coach Claude Le Roy, while denying reports he had quit, launched a scathing attack on his employers. Numerous reports in DR Congo overnight Thursday, suggested the 64-year-old Frenchman had dramatically quit the team 48 hours before their opening game against Ghana in frustration at unpaid player
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Bukavu - Pioneering doctor Denis Mukwege, who founded a clinic for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo, returned home on Monday after being forced into exile following an attempt on his life. Thousands of residents from Mukwege's eastern city of Bukavu went to the airport to welcome back the award-winning gynaecologist, who narrowly escaped the 25 October attack.
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The United Nations (UN) has been challenged over its recent proposal that it would use aerial Vehicles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a suggestion that Rwanda's Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi said; it would be illogical. While commenting through a public social media Twitter, The Prime Minister said "....UN in DRC does not need drones to do
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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should bring to account soldiers involved in a raid on a radio station in the eastern town of Kabambare, and the arbitrary detention and beating of two of the station's journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (known by the French
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