| UN agency expresses concern over thousands of children in armed groups | |
IRIN - April 5, 2005 | |
Despite 3,313 children being disarmed in the last six months in Congo's northeastern district of Ituri, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concerned over thousands others yet to be released by armed groups. | |
| Insecurity creates food shortages in Ituri | |
IRIN - April 4, 2005 | |
Once renowned for its food production, Djugu, a territory in Ituri, is rapidly degenerating into a food-deficit zone, according to local agriculture experts and UN agencies. | |
| Cholera kills six, 60 infected in IDP camp | |
IRIN - April 1, 2005 | |
Cholera has broken out in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing six people and infecting 60 others, an official from the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. | |
| Uncooperative fighters will be hunted down, MONUC says | |
IRIN - April 1, 2005 | |
Militiamen in Congo's Ituri District who failed to comply with a UN ultimatum to disarm will be hunted down, Gen Jean-Francois Collot d'Escury, chief of staff of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), has said. | |
| More action needed to stop sexual abuses, new UN report says | |
IRIN - March 25, 2005 | |
A new UN report issued on Thursday said that efforts to stop UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from sexually abusing the local population have not been effective and it recommended establishing better mechanisms to investigate cases. | |
| Ituri militias take war to civilians | |
IRIN - March 23, 2005 | |
Three months after the resumption of fighting between Lendu and Hema militias in Ituri, a district in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a vivid picture of human-rights violations is emerging. | |
| Another key Ituri leader arrested | |
IRIN - March 22, 2005 | |
The Congolese government has arrested Thomas Lubanga, the leader of the Union des patriotes Congolais (UPC), a key political movement in the northeastern district of Ituri, a government official announced on Tuesday. | |
| Disarmament begins in Ituri, targeting 4,000 rebels | |
IRIN - March 22, 2005 | |
Some 550 former combatants surrendered their arms on Sunday and Monday in the northeastern district of Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in a disarmament effort targeting 4,000 militiamen, the largest number so far. | |
| UN seizes weapons in Ituri | |
IRIN - March 18, 2005 | |
Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seized guns and ammunitions on Wednesday in the embattled northeastern district of Ituri, the UN Mission there, known as MONUC, said. | |
| UN official dismissed over sex abuse scandal | |
IRIN - March 18, 2005 | |
A senior UN civilian official accused of sexual misconduct in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is no longer under investigations; another senior official has been dismissed, Fred Eckhard, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, announced on Thursday. | |
