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| DRC Army Integrates Over 6,000 Rebels | |
VOA News - January 29, 2009 | |
 | At the ceremony, former rebel military commander Bosco Ntaganda was named second-in-command of the joint military brigades. An international mediation group headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo walked out of the ceremony in protest. Ntaganda is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of using child soldiers during hostilities in Congo's Ituri province in 2002 and 2003. |
| Amnesty International: Laurent Nkunda and Bosco Ntaganda must face justice | |
Amnesty International - January 28, 2009 | |
 | The arrest of Laurent Nkunda should be followed by swift steps to prosecute him on charges that he committed war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Amnesty International said today. Any trial must be fair and exclude the death penalty. If states fail to do so, then the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to seek to prosecute him. Since 2004, the ICC Prosecutor has been investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC, particularly in the Ituri region, and has sought and obtained arrest warrants. |
| 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. |
| International Criminal Court rules that Congolese rebel's trial back on track | |
UN News - November 20, 2008 | |
 | The International Criminal Court (ICC) today announced its decision to reverse its earlier suspension of the trial of Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, accused of recruiting child soldiers to serve in his militia. |
| Legal limbo for DR Congo warlord | |
BBC News - October 21, 2008 | |
| War crimes tribunal judges have ruled that Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga should not be freed but say his trial remains suspended. Correspondents say the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruling leaves Mr Lubanga in legal limbo. |
| UN envoy calls for 'surge' of peacekeepers in DR Congo in face of new violence | |
UN News - October 3, 2008 | |
 | The top United Nations envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today asked for additional peacekeepers beyond the nearly 19,000 uniformed personnel already there to prevent the vast country from slipping back into "horrendous" conflict. |
| For an effective and credible MONUC | |
EurAc - September 28, 2008 | |
 | Since 28 August Laurent Nkunda's CNDP has launched several offensives against positions held by the army, the FARDC, thus violating the "Acte d'engagement à la paix" he signed in January 2008. These attacks have aggravated the humanitarian situation in North Kivu, causing the displacement of a further 100.000 people. |
| Alarm-bells ring at upsurge in fighting | |
IWPR - September 8, 2008 | |
 | Eastern Congo's fragile peace process is again in crisis as fighting between rebels and the army pushes the region closer to all-out war. Observers say armed groups on all sides are digging in after clashes between the Congolese army and fighters loyal to Laurent Nkunda, the head of the Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People, CNDP. |
| UN probes India 'abuses' in Congo | |
BBC News - August 13, 2008 | |
 | The UN has found that its peacekeeping troops from India may have engaged in abuse and exploitation while serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was deeply troubled by the findings. |
| Kinshasa urges UN to investigate remarks by peacekeeper | |
XINHUA - July 18, 2008 | |
| The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is diligently awaiting the findings of an investigation initiated by the United Nations Mission in DR Congo (MONUC) over certain remarks made by a senior peacekeeping officer. |
