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D.R.CONGO: GOMA AIRPORT REOPENED, TALKS EXPECTED TO START SHORTLY IN UGANDA

Today, December 4th 2012, Rwanda's Minister of Finance and Economic Planning John Rwangombwa, Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo and Minister of Defence General James Kabarebe appeared before both chambers of the parliament to explain the crisis in the eastern DRC and how the freezing of aid will affect the Rwandan people.

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Martine is understandably nervous about her decision to return home. "It has been more than three years since I left here and it will be not easy to rebuild my life," she tells UNHCR after stepping off a boat on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) side of the Oubangui River. "It worries me."

Bloomberg and Reuters news agencies have reported that the International Monetary Fund has halted its loan programme with the Democratic Republic of Congo because of concerns over transparency in the country's mining sector. While Congo is clearly in desperate need of funds, Global Witness believes that concerns over possible corruption in the country's mining sector were so serious that the IMF was justified in stopping its lending.

Reporters Without Borders and its Congolese partner Journalist in Danger (JED) are deeply concerned about an order issued on 1 December by the High Council for Broadcasting and Communication (CSAC) to jam Radio Okapi.

Statement by Peter Grossman, Managing Director, FG Hemisphere Asssociates, LLC

Although the urgent, short-term humanitarian needs of people displaced around Goma were under control, long-term assistance remained uncertain, Mustapha Soumaré, Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) told journalists today by videoconference from Kinshasa.

U.N. MISSION CLOSELY MONITORING M23 MOVEMENTS IN GOMA, D.R. CONGO

Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the humanitarian impact of the conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been devastating and that those behind recent human rights abuses must be held accountable.

28 November 2012 – The Security Council today extended the arms embargo and other sanctions imposed against armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while expressing its intention to consider additional targeted sanctions against the leadership of the M23, the rebel fighters that recently occupied the eastern provincial capital of Goma.