CONGO WATCH

Here is an astounding report via Reuters March 31, 2005: Rwanda's main Hutu rebel group announced on Thursday they were ending their war...

Today, whilst blog hopping, I came across a post by Macnamband, an American in Morocco, dated December 19, 2004. Incase the link becomes b...

Mar 22, 2005 news via tvnz.co.nz New Zealand: Congolese security services have arrested the head of a militia group accused of widespread h...

Konono No 1- or to give them their full name, Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono No 1 de Mingiedi - come from Kinshasa (formerly Leopol...

As reported in earlier posts here, militiamen grilled bodies on a spit and boiled two girls alive as their mother watched, U.N. peacekeepers...

Please do not miss the below copied report from the Guardian UK by Sarah Left and agencies, dated 17 March, 2005. Photos courtesy Ali'...

There are some great posts by Congolese bloggers that I shall be linking to at a later date. At the moment I am on a blogging break and una...

The following editorial is by Lisa Schlein, Geneva, 16 March 2005 via Voice of America: The U.N. top humanitarian official, Jan Egeland, say...

Nicole Itano is a freelance reporter based in Johannesburg. She has travelled several times to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here is a ...

This UN-OCHA report via IRIN does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations: KINSHASA, 10 Mar 2005 (IRIN) - At least 88,000 i...

Here is a copy of a Reuters London report dated March 9, 2005, by Ruth Gidley: Brutal conflicts in Congo, Uganda and Sudan are the world...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is of vital strategic importance, says a United Nations report. Its size (2.5 million sq km), the...

Sadly, here is another deeply distressing report about countless numbers of female rape victims aged from 4-months old to 80. From what I h...

Today is Women's Day. My thoughts on the following opinion piece by Margaret Vuchiri are about why there is such a thing as a "Wom...

This March 8, International Women's Day, people around the world must take action on behalf of the thousands of women suffering from con...

The following editorial appears at the website of Inforce [International Forensic Centre of Excellence for the Investigation of Genocide], ...

Thousands of people have fled ethnic violence in Ituri. The following is a copy of a BBC report , 5 March, 2005: The head of the UN missio...

Here is a copy of a report from the BBC 2 March, 2005 that says the UN is determined to find those who killed nine UN peacekeepers: United N...

The following is a copy of a report by David Lewis courtesy Reuters Mar 2, 2005: KINSHASA (Reuters) - On a humid night in Kinshasa, six men ...

Here is a copy of a February 26, 2005, report by the United Nations Mission for Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) about the murder of nin...