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The MONUC Human Rights team dispatched to Bukavu to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses in the region has come to the conclusion that there was no genocide in Bukavu as alleged by Laurent Nkunda, the dissident…
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo was largely involved in the withdrawal of the insurgent forces from the town of Bukavu. MONUC military spokesman, commander Abou Thiam, declared during the UN…
Elections are a major challenge for the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, in a press conference Wednesday in Kinshasa. Beyond…
The second International Peacekeepers' Day will be marked this 29 May. On that day, MONUC plans to organise several events in the area of its deployments and a message of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan will be published…
The UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno is due to pay a weeklong visit to four Great Lakes countries as of Thursday 20 May 2004, MONUC Spokesman, Hamadoun Touré announced on Tuesday…
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, William Lacy Swing, welcomes the meeting between the DRC, Rwanda and Ugandan Foreign Affairs Ministers, scheduled for…
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors in New York on Tuesday to review the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo following recent events in Eastern DRC and reports, which were confirmed by MONUC…
Uruguayan president, Jorge Battle, has arrived in Kisangani today to visit the Uruguayan peacekeepers, observers and military officers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced Wednesday, Ms. Patricia Tome, the…
Thousands of Congolese from the Democratic Republic of the Congo working illegally in Angolan mining zones were subjected to mass expulsions during which gross human rights abuses were committed, announced a senior civil…
The deployment of the Kivu Brigade is proceeding, declared the MONUC military Spokesman, Commander Abou Thiam, during the weekly press briefing on Wednesday. « The Brigade's headquarters in Bukavu is already in place. The…
The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo welcomes the putting in place of a board of enquiry tasked to bring out the truth about the events of the 28th in Kinshasa, declared MONUC spokesman, Hamadoun…
The head of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, William Lacy Swing, described as ''a step forward'', the agreement reached by the Congolese Transitional Government Tuesday, on the putting in…