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A Uruguayan contingent's peacekeeper based in Bukavu passed away Thursday 13 May 2004 following a heart attack. Sergeant William Aparicio Ferreira Cassini, 49 years old, was married and father of five children. He joined…
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. William Lacy Swing, urged the representatives of the Ituri active armed groups to actively and unequivocally join…
A routine patrol of the Ituri Brigade was ambushed early Friday near Kombokabo village, 25 kilometres south west of Bunia, along the Bunia - Marabo axis. A militia group of the Front Nationaliste Intégrationniste (FNI) opened…
7 May 2004 - The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into reported instances of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of civilians…
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On Friday, 23 April 2004, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. William Swing, sent official letters to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda and…
MONUC acquaints itself with public declarations and accusations on incursions of FDLR gunmen into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. MONUC expresses serious concerns and says if it turned out, upon…
The Gabonese President, Omar Bongo Ondimba, received the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, William Lacy Swing on Tuesday, 13 April 2004, in Libreville, Gabon…
Two peacekeepers of the Nepali Battalion deployed to Mahagi in Ituri were killed yesterday, Sunday, 11 April, mid-day in a road accident, 18 km East of Nebbi in Uganda. The accident, which left two dead and three injured…
Following a report received on Monday, 5 April 2004, indicating the presence of a weapon and ammunition-loaded truck at a residence in Kisangani, MONUC dispatched a group of approximately 30 soldiers to the site to verify the…
Six MONUC peacekeepers of the South African contingent were killed Tuesday, 6 April 2004, when their armoured vehicle accidentally fell into Lake Kivu in an attempt to avoid an oncoming vehicle. Another five military staff…
The genocide in Rwanda should never have happened. But it did. Neither the UN Secretariat, nor the Security Council, nor Member States in general, nor the international media, paid enough attention to the gathering signs of…
MONUC peacekeeper dies of cardiac insufficiency MONUC peacekeeper of the Bangladeshi contingent passed away Thursday 1st April 2004 in Pretoria, South Africa, following cardiac insufficiency. The Warrant Officer Ahmed Farid…