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| Celebrities Promote Humanitarian Causes | |
VOA News - April 20, 2009 | |
 | Movie stars, models and musicians can often command the media's attention when they promote charitable or environmental causes. Angelina Jolie, Bono, Leonardo Di Caprio are just some of the A-list celebrities lending their famous faces to humanitarian issues, third world debt and climate change. |
| DR Congo, Rwanda and UNHCR discuss returns | |
UNHCR - April 17, 2009 | |
 | UNHCR is encouraged by the strong desire of the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to have their nationals who are now refugees in their respective countries return home. Officials of the two countries met in Goma in eastern DRC to discuss the first steps in the return of their nationals, estimated at more than 150,000. The two-day tripartite gathering, which ended yesterday, was facilitated by UNHCR. |
| Russia to strengthen ties with DR Congo | |
Xinhua - April 8, 2009 | |
 | Russia favors strengthened relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday when meeting his Congolese counterpart Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. |
| DRC Refugees Continue to Cross Sudan South Border | |
VOA News - February 17, 2009 | |
 | A growing number of Congolese refugees are crossing the border into south Sudan, trying to escape attacks on their towns and villages by members of the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army. |
| DR Congo, Rwanda accomplish 65% of joint military operation | |
XINHUA - February 15, 2009 | |
 | The joint forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and Rwanda have accomplished 65 percent of the military operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels, dealing a heavy blow to the insurgency, according to the Congolese government. Communication Minister Lambert Mende unveiled the achievements in the capital Kinshasa at a press conference, saying the government is totally satisfied with the joint military operation which has not caused any civilian casualties. |
| 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. |
| UN mission in DR Congo says situation calm in North Kivu province | |
XINHUA - February 8, 2009 | |
 | The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the situation in the troubled North Kivu province is calm despite the on-going joint military operation against Rwandan rebels. |
| DR Congo says over 2,000 Rwandan refugees ready to return | |
XINHUA - February 4, 2009 | |
 | More than 2,000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), including civilians and ex-combatants, are ready to return to their home country, authorities announced on Tuesday. |
| 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). |
| Opinion: Solving the Kivu Equation | |
IWPR - December 24, 2008 | |
 | The presence of FDLR soldiers - Rwandan Hutus who fled into Congo after the genocide and now control part of the illegal mineral trade in the east - is a pretext for Rwanda to attack the Kivus. The FDLR are also used by Laurent Nkunda as a justification for his "protection" of the Tutsi minority. As if defending a minority is an acceptable excuse for massacring other Congolese ethnic groups. |
