Friday, May 24, 2013
News | LRA
| Many Congolese Flee to Southern Sudan | |
VOA News - February 10, 2009 | |
 | Thousands of people fleeing rebel attacks in the northeastern DRC are seeking safe haven in South Sudan. Members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda have been attacking towns and villages in Orientale Province, killing at least 900 people. Humanitarian agencies have been trying to determine the number and location of the displaced people in the province. |
| Survivors of Ugandan rebel massacres in DR Congo seek help from UN | |
UN News - February 10, 2009 | |
 | Angry and traumatized survivors of massacres by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed nearly 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today sought shelter, food, medicine – and justice – from the top United Nations relief official. |
| North Kivu operation a boost for repatriation, peace - president | |
IRIN - February 3, 2009 | |
 | The joint military operation by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to dislodge armed militias from North Kivu Province has prompted an increase in combatants willing to be repatriated, President Joseph Kabila said. |
| Uganda Reports Arrest of Rebel Commander | |
VOA News - January 28, 2009 | |
 | State-owned radio in Uganda reports that troops have arrested a top commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. The report says Okot Odhiambo was captured in Congo's Garamba Forest as he tried to escape to the Central African Republic. |
| LRA Continues Attacks in Eastern Congo | |
VOA News - January 13, 2009 | |
 | The U.N. refugee agency says it is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as attacks by the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, continue. The UNHCR says the number of deaths, abductions and homeless people is growing. |
| UN reaches villages in north-eastern DR Congo attacked by Ugandan rebels | |
UN News - January 6, 2009 | |
| The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). |
| Congolese Welcome President Kabila's Promise to Weed Out Armed Groups | |
VOA News - January 2, 2009 | |
 | Congolese have welcomed President Joseph Kabila's promise to weed out armed groups in the country before the end of this year. In a televised address to the nation's to mark the beginning of the New Year, President Kabila vowed to bring peace to the country before the end of 2009. |
| UNHCR Appeals for More UN, Congolese Troops to Protect Civilians | |
VOA News - January 1, 2009 | |
| The UN refugee agency is appealing to the Congolese government to send more troops to protect civilians in Orientale Province in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in the area over the Christmas period. |
| Ban Ki-moon denounces 'appalling atrocities' by Ugandan rebels in DR Congo | |
UN News - December 30, 2008 | |
 | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the “appalling atrocities” reportedly committed by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and southern Sudan, and demanded that they respect all rules of international humanitarian law. |
| 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. |
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