CONGO WATCH

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Rwandan Hutu Rebels Denounce Genocide, Halt War

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Here is an astounding report via Reuters March 31, 2005: Rwanda's main Hutu rebel group announced on Thursday they were ending their war...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

A dream to establish a university in the Congo and grow a Silicon Valley

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Today, whilst blog hopping, I came across a post by Macnamband, an American in Morocco, dated December 19, 2004. Incase the link becomes b...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Congo arrests militia leader

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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...
Sunday, March 20, 2005

Konono No 1 - Congotronics

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Konono No 1- or to give them their full name, Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono No 1 de Mingiedi - come from Kinshasa (formerly Leopol...
Friday, March 18, 2005

The savagery in the Congo is beyond imagination

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As reported in earlier posts here, militiamen grilled bodies on a spit and boiled two girls alive as their mother watched, U.N. peacekeepers...
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Thursday, March 17, 2005

UN reports atrocities in Congo. Congo death toll nearing 4m

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Please do not miss the below copied report from the Guardian UK by Sarah Left and agencies, dated 17 March, 2005. Photos courtesy Ali'...
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African Union plans up to 7,000 troops for Congo

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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...

UN calls Eastern Congo worst humanitarian crisis - superseding the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan

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The following editorial is by Lisa Schlein, Geneva, 16 March 2005 via Voice of America: The U.N. top humanitarian official, Jan Egeland, say...
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Sex-assaults by men continues unchecked in Congo

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Nicole Itano is a freelance reporter based in Johannesburg. She has travelled several times to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here is a ...
Thursday, March 10, 2005

DRC: Aid resumes for 88,000 displaced amid uneasy calm in Ituri - OCHA

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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...
Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Congo war tops AlertNet poll of 'forgotten' crises

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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...

Why the Democratic Republic of the Congo matters

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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...

Tens of thousands raped in East Congo

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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...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

"Men and women are two wheels of a chariot"

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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...
Monday, March 07, 2005

In honour of International Women's Day, please take a stand for crimes against humanity

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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 ethnic conflict in Ituri was one of ICEG's first Genocide Alerts on February 20, 2000

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The following editorial appears at the website of Inforce [International Forensic Centre of Excellence for the Investigation of Genocide], ...
Saturday, March 05, 2005

UN to replace Congo mission head

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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...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

UN troops strike back in DR Congo

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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...

Congo warlords live high life

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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 ...
Monday, February 28, 2005

Murder of nine United Nations peacekeepers in the DRC

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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...
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