DR Congo peace talks suspended after arrest of rebel leader | |
XINHUA - January 24, 2009 | |
The UN-backed talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and eastern rebel group which began in Nairobi last month in a bid to end the bloody conflict has been suspended after the arrest of the rebel leader Gen. Laurent Nkunda. | |
DR Congo's rebel leader arrested | |
BBC News - January 23, 2009 | |
Gen Laurent Nkunda, leader of the strongest rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested, the military says. He was detained in Rwanda after resisting a joint Rwandan-Congolese operation to arrest him, officials say. | |
UN-backed talks in DR Congo making slow progress, envoy tells Security Council | |
VOA News - January 15, 2009 | |
Tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are beginning to thaw as on-going peace talks, aimed at ending fighting in the east of the DRC between the Government and the main rebel militia in the region, are making slow progress, the United Nations envoy facilitating negotiations told the Security Council today. | |
African Leaders to Meet in Ethiopia to Discuss Congo | |
XINHUA - January 12, 2009 | |
The Kenyan government has expressed confidence that talks aimed at ending conflict in the war-ravaged eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) underway in Nairobi will be successful. Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula told journalists in Nairobi on Monday that he is hopeful a deal will soon be reached on the cessation of hostilities between the government and the major Tutsi rebel militia, the National Congress in Defense of the People (CNDP). | |
Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase | |
UN News - January 8, 2009 | |
The UN envoy is currently holding consultations, including on the possibility of holding a gathering this month of the leaders of Great Lakes nations to update them on progress made so far and obstacles that remain in achieving peace between the Government and the CNDP. | |
UN calls on rebels to resume talks with Government | |
UN News - January 2, 2009 | |
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today called on the main rebel group in the east of the vast country to resume talks with the Government next week in a bid to end fighting that has forced over 250,000 from their homes since August. | |
Ugandan rebels said to massacre civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - December 26, 2008 | |
According to the reports, the rebels, fleeing a joint military operation by the DRC, Uganda and Southern Sudan to flush them out of a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, committed grave violations of human rights against civilians in Faradje, 120 kilometres east of Dungu, killing the villagers, plundering and destroying houses. | |
Security Council tells UN Mission in DR Congo to step up protection of civilians | |
UN News - December 22, 2008 | |
The Security Council today told United Nations peacekeepers in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prioritize the protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel, as the number of attacks on aid workers, some of them deadly, passed 100 since the start of 2008. | |
Displaced people must not be forced back to their villages, UN tells DR Congo rebels | |
UN News - December 19, 2008 | |
The United Nations refugee agency has called on mainly Tutsi rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ensure the rights of 10,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) amid reports that they are being pressured to go back to their villages. | |
UNHCR urges DR Congo rebels to respect humanitarian principles | |
XINHUA - December 19, 2008 | |
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday called on rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to stop forcing the displaced people back to their villages. |