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| Top UN envoy voices hope for additional troops in volatile eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - November 18, 2008 | |
 | The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today expressed hope that the Security Council will shortly approve a request for 3,000 additional troops to buttress blue helmets already on the ground in the country’s east, the scene of fierce recent conflict. |
| Obasanjo says his mediation accepted by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda in DR Congo | |
XINHUA - November 17, 2008 | |
 | At the end of his mission on Sunday in DR Congo's eastern province of North Kivu, the former Nigerian president said Laurent Nkunda, the Tutsi leader of the rebel National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), accepted his role as the special envoy of the UN secretary general in mediating a deal to end the clash. |
| DR Congo displaced threatened by criminal abuses and spread of diseases, warns UN | |
UN News - November 11, 2008 | |
 | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned that the perpetrators of recent targeted killings of civilians, looting and rape in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will face justice. |
| Force not the solution in violence-ridden eastern DR Congo, top UN envoy says | |
UN News - October 28, 2008 | |
 | MONUC is intervening to thwart the CNDP’s attempt to attack the province’s capital Goma and other population centres, according to Alan Doss, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative. |
| Battles rage near key Congo town | |
BBC News - October 28, 2008 | |
 | An estimated 20,000 people have already fled towards Goma, many of them having left a refugee camp in Kibumba as the fighting approached on Monday. About 200,000 people fled their homes after fighting resumed in the area in late August. |
| Protesters attack UN Congo office | |
BBC News - October 27, 2008 | |
 | Hundreds of protesters are reportedly attacking the UN's headquarters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The protesters are angry that a 17,000-strong UN force has not better protected them against an offensive by rebel forces. |
| Fresh Clashes in DRC Displace Scores in North Kivu Province | |
VOA News - October 15, 2008 | |
 | The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) says fresh clashes Tuesday night between government forces and rebels have contributed to more than 150-thousand people internally displaced. The report says Congolese army tanks pounded rebel-held hilltops and repelled an attack on a military base in the east on Tuesday in the latest round of fighting against rebels loyal to renegade army general Laurent Nkunda. |
| Congolese Express Doubts About UN Mission in DRC | |
VOA News - September 5, 2008 | |
 | The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is cautioning that the country risks plunging into a full scale war between government forces and rebels loyal to reneged army general Laurent Nkunda. MONUC said there are ongoing pockets of skirmishes between government forces and the rebels in the restive North Kivu province despite a recently signed peace deal. |
| Ben Affleck films DR Congo crisis | |
BBC News - June 27, 2008 | |
 | Actor Ben Affleck has said he made a TV report on the Democratic Republic of Congo because the humanitarian crisis there deserved "our eyes and our ears". The Oscar-winner visited refugee camps, warlords and hospitals while in the African country to record a film for Nightline, on US channel ABC. |
| After two key deals, what progress towards peace in North Kivu? | |
IRIN - May 14, 2008 | |
 | Two agreements signed since the end of 2007 offer some hope for an end to more than a decade of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), even if fighting has continued and a lasting solution has yet to be found to the presence in the region of Rwandan Hutu rebels, according to analysts. |
