Tag Archives: Congo

The incident occurred in the vicinity of Sake, just 20 kilometers from Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu. The wounded peacekeepers, who were part of Operation Springbok initiated last November to safeguard civilians in the region, sustained their injuries amidst the ongoing fighting, where UN troops have been assisting …

Kenya’s foreign ministry says it ‘strongly disassociates’ with a DRC opposition figure who forged an alliance with rebels in Nairobi. Kenya has “strongly disassociated” itself from a Congolese opposition figure who forged an alliance with rebels in Nairobi, spurring a diplomatic row with Kinshasa. The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

A garrison military court has handed a death sentence to seven commandos of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) after pleading guilty to cowardice in front of the enemy. The soldiers attached to the Republican Guard were arrested after fleeing from a fighting encounter with the …

Peacekeeping mission condemns ‘appalling act’ as it calls for an immediate end to violence against civilians in the east. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has denounced the killings of 50 villagers allegedly by the M23 armed group in the country’s conflict-wracked east as it …

Eleven people including two police officers died in a stampede on Saturday October 29, at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer, Fally Ipupa.    The country’s interior minister, Daniel Aselo Okito who confirmed the incident on Sunday October 30, blamed the organisers for the deaths, saying the Martyrs’ stadium concert …

The ADF stages frequent deadly raids on villages in eastern Congo despite joint operations by the Congolese and Ugandan armies. Suspected rebels have killed at least 14 civilians and kidnapped more than a dozen others in an attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a witness and a …

Speaking at the ceremony, UN Secretary-General António Guterres again expressed deepest condolences to the families of Zaida Catalán and Michael Sharp, who attended the dedication of Abused Ammunition, a glass sculpture which appears in the form of a golden bullet.  Ms. Catalán, who was from Sweden, and Mr. Sharp, an …

The incident at the Congo – Uganda border post in Kasindi in the restive eastern part of the country is the latest involving the peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, which has come under pressure from days of protests. It was not clear why the soldiers opened fire. “This …

At least 10 people have died as protests erupted against a United Nations peacekeeping force in Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Seven of the dead were civilians while the others were UN personnel, Reuters reported.   According to Reuters, local media said the protesters in the eastern city …

“The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the largest population of internally displaced people on the African continent: 5.9 million people, including 700,000 newly displaced people this year. The DRC is also hosting over 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers (mainly from Burundi, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan). The factors …