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| Congo: mining, conflict and complicity | |
Bretton Woods Project - February 1, 2007 | |
 | A confidential World Bank memo dated September 2005 and leaked to the Financial Times in November 2006 finds that three of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) biggest mining contracts over which the World Bank had oversight were approved with "a complete lack of transparency". |
| War Crimes Case to Present In-Person Testimonies | |
VOA News - January 30, 2007 | |
 | Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga is the first person to be tried by the world's only permanent global war crimes court, the Hague-based International Criminal Court. |
| World Criminal Court to Hear First Case | |
VOA News - January 29, 2007 | |
 | In a historic decision, judges at the International Criminal Court are poised to begin hearing their first case. Judges found there was enough evidence against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga to send him to trial for recruiting and using child soldiers to fight his war in the eastern Ituri region of the country. Lauren Comiteau reports from the court in The Hague. |
| Ban Ki-moon says security key to solving humanitarian issues | |
IRIN - January 29, 2007 | |
 | War-related humanitarian problems in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) can only be solved in an atmosphere of lasting peace and stability, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said during a two-day visit to the country. |
| Ban Ki-moon pledges continued UN support to consolidate peace | |
UN News Centre - January 28, 2007 | |
 | The United Nations will stand by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as it consolidates peace, but ultimately future stability lies in the hands of the Congolese people, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told parliamentarians in the capital, Kinshasa. |
| Ban Ki-moon emphasizes a "contract for good governance" for the DRC | |
MONUC - January 27, 2007 | |
 | At a press conference on Saturday January 27, 2007 in Kinshasa, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gave his impressions on the current state of the political process in the DRC, while underlying the remarkable progress achieved by the country in the past year on its road to democracy. |
| Surprise visit of President Kabila to Bukavu on January 25 | |
MONUC - January 26, 2007 | |
 | President Joseph Kabila made a surprise visit to Bukavu in South Kivu province on January 25 2007, accompanied by a team of advisers. During the visit, the President also went to the territory of Walungu, close to the exactions of the Hutu Rwandese combatants. |
| Amnesty:DRC stability threatened as country fails to reform army | |
Amnesty International - January 25, 2007 | |
 | Amnesty International today warned that the demobilization and army reform programme currently underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risks compromising the country's entire political process and future stability. |
| President Bush praises Dikembe Mutombo during State of the Union Address | |
Congo Planet - January 23, 2007 | |
 | Dikembe Mutombo was among the guests of honor at the State of the Union Address. During his annual speech to the nation, President Bush praised Dikembe Mutombo for building a new hospital in the Congo and never forgetting the land of his birth even after becoming a star in the NBA, and a citizen of the United States. |
| Dissident general wants his troops in national army | |
IRIN - January 23, 2007 | |
 | Laurent Nkunda, the dissident army general, agreed to participate in talks with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo on two conditions: that troops loyal to him be integrated into the national army; and that the government ensure the protection and rights of all Kinyarwanda-speakers, most of whom live in eastern Congo. |
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