Congo: UN troops in Congo gold warning
Some officers were alleged to have dealt with a militia Three Indian army officers have been let off with a warning over allegations of gold trafficking while they were UN peacekeepers in the DR Congo. The allegations, first revealed by the BBC, were part ...
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Congo: UN troops in Congo gold warning
Three Indian army officers have been let off with a warning over allegations of gold trafficking while they were UN peacekeepers in the DR Congo. A UN report said there was evidence that Indian troops in eastern Congo had traded gold and drugs with a militia involved in the ...
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Congo: Congo ex-leader appears in court
Jean-Pierre Bemba was sent to The Hague on Thursday The former Congolese Vice-President, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has appeared at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for the first time. Mr Bemba, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo last year, was arrested in Belgium in May. He ...
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Congo: Congo ex-leader sent to The Hague
The ex-vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been extradited to The Hague to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Jean-Pierre Bemba, who fled DR Congo last year, was detained in Belgium in May. He will face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). ...
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Burundi: Fatal chicken disease a blow to food security
BUJUMBURA, 3 July 2008 (IRIN) - Food security in Burundi’s Kayanza province is under threat because of an untreatable disease that has killed more than 1,000 chickens in one commune, according to a senior official. "The disease has also been reported in other parts of the country but total numbers ...
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Congo: ICC orders Congo warlord release
The International Criminal Court has ordered the release of the first-ever war crimes suspect to face trial before it, Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. The judges said Mr Lubanga could not be guaranteed a fair trial as prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defence. His release will be delayed ...
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Congo: Angolan Premier Arrives Home From AU Meeting
Angola`s Prime Minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, is already in the country, after attending the ninth summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), held on June 30 to July 01. At Luanda`s "4 de Fevereiro" International Airport, the Premier was welcomed by the ...
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Congo: Egypt: Angolan Prime Minister Meets With African Leaders
El-Sheikh, 07/01– Angola`s Premier, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Tuesday in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, held informal meetings with Libyan President, Mouhammar Kadhafi, as well as with the Presidents of Congo Brazzaville and Senegal, Denis Sassou Nguesso and, Abdoulaye Wade respectively. The meetings were held on the sidelines of the XI ...
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Congo (DRC): Humanitarians Pick Up the Pieces As Insecurity Persists in North Kivu
Violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo`s embattled North Kivu province this year has boosted the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) to some 857,000. The scale and fluidity of the crisis, coupled with the fact that many of the displaced live with families rather than in camps, has ...
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Congo: ICC charges DR Congo `warlords`
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in the Hague have charged two Congolese militia leaders with war crimes. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui are accused of planning and ordering an attack, in which more than 200 villagers were allegedly killed. Reports say some of the victims were ...
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Congo: Boost for water supplies
BRAZZAVILLE, 25 June 2008 (IRIN) - Virtually every working day, before going to work at the primary education inspectorate in Kinkala, 75km south of the capital, Brazzaville, Alphonse Dianzinga, 52, fetches water from a source half-an-hour’s walk away. "Drinking water is difficult to find here. It barely exists," Dianzinga told ...
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Congo: Ben Affleck films DR Congo crisis
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 ...
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Congo (DRC): Uige: More Than 750 Citizens from DRC Repatriated
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Congo: No Takers for Ex-Dictator`s Money
A Swiss court has ordered eight million Swiss francs to be unblocked in favour of the heirs of Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire. The Swiss are trying to convince the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to send an envoy to collect the money in the ...
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Burundi: Burundi arrests `rebel recruits`
Burundi`s army says it has arrested more than 100 young people who were being recruited to join the country`s last active rebel group. The recruitment by the National Liberation Forces (FNL) violated a recent ceasefire that the group signed with the government, the army said. But the FNL said those ...
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Congo: All Sides Continue to Violate Human Rights, UN Report Finds
Government troops, national police, foreign groups and local militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to contribute to deteriorating human rights conditions, the United Nations peacekeeping mission to the country (MONUC) said in a report released today. The report, assessing the human rights situation in the ...
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Burundi: Cantonment of Rebel FNL Fighters Set to Begin
Burundi`s last active rebel leader, Agathon Rwasa, has declared the end of the armed struggle against the government at a ceremony to mark the formal start of the cantonment of his fighters in Rugazi Commune, Bubanza Province, western Burundi. "Through this pre-cantonment process we want to show the Burundian and ...
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Congo (DRC): Local, DRC Military Chiefs Meet Over FDLR
Rwanda`s Chief of General Staff Gen. James Kabarebe, yesterday met with his Congolese counterpart, Gen Dieudonnée Kayembe and discussed ways of taking measures to neutralize ex-FAR/ Interahamwe and Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The militias have since remained active in eastern DRC despite many diplomatic efforts to ...
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Congo: DR Congo ex-warlord `may go free`
Judges at a key war crimes tribunal have reprimanded those prosecuting Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga and are considering releasing him. The International Criminal Court (ICC) judges said that evidence had been withheld from the defence. Mr Lubanga was held in 2006, accused of recruiting and using child soldiers ...
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Burundi: Burundi frees police on death row
Burundi's High Court has freed four former senior police officers who were sentenced to death for the murder of a World Health Organisation official in 2001. It also released two other men late on Thursday who had been jailed for 20 years for the same crime, lawyers said. ...
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Congo (DRC): Barge sinks in DR Congo
Two people drowned and a dozen others were missing after a barge sunk on the Busira River in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local radio station reported Friday. The accident happened on Thursday night when the barge, carrying around 40 passengers, went to the rescue of a ...
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Congo (DRC): Cape refugees frustrated by relocation
Foreign nationals at the Soetwater refugee site say they are not keen on moving to community halls. This comes amid widespread condemnation of the site as an unsuitable area for temporary accommodation. Refugees say the plan to relocate them to community halls is not the solution. Some say ...
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Congo (DRC): Barge sinks in DR Congo
Two people drowned and a dozen others were missing after a barge sunk on the Busira River in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local radio station reported Friday. The accident happened on Thursday night when the barge, carrying around 40 passengers, went to the rescue of a ...
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Burundi: Burundi govt, rebels hold successful talks
The Burundian government and the Palipehutu-FNL rebel group have moved a step closer in ending a brutal armed conflict that has destabilised the tiny Great Lakes nation. This after leaders from both sides agreed to expedite the process to end hostilities after holding high level peace talks in ...
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Congo (DRC): International court delays start of first trial
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said today it was delaying the start of its first trial, of a Congolese militia leader accused of sending child soldiers to fight, which had been planned for June 23. This is the second time the trial of Thomas Lubanga, at the world's first ...
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