Dernières infos – en

(Reuters) – Uganda is worried that a rising stream of refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Congo could give easy passage for rebels to launch attacks in the country, the military said on Sunday.

(Updates with comment by lawmaker in eighth paragraph.)

By Michael J. Kavanagh
July 12 (Bloomberg) — Democratic Republic of Congo will
modify a law that restricts foreign ownership of agriculture
projects as it seeks to raise financing for a proposed $5.7
billion expansion plan, the Agriculture Ministry said.

(Adds information on companies producing concentrate from
eighth paragraph.)
By Michael J. Kavanagh
July 11 (Bloomberg) — The Democratic Republic of Congo,
which has some of the world’s richest metal deposits, delayed a
ban on the export of copper and cobalt concentrate until next
year, the country’s mines minister said.

While international attention continues to focus on the M23––there have been persistent skirmishes to the north of Goma, a meeting between the government and the M23 in Kampala, and the death of the head of FDLR-Soki––the political opposition has been meeting in Kinshasa to decide on the way forward.

Back to blogging after a two month long hiatus. I will be catching up on some of the M23, national dialogue, and third term debates soon.

The military spokesman for the United Nations Mission for Stabilization of Congo (MONUSCO), Felix Prosper Basse has said the UN's peace keepers will be deployed in zones where the population needs security.

The French aid group Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) is asking U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to stay away from the hospitals and health centers where its staff are working. The charity has also criticized the U.N. for providing armed escorts for aid workers.

10 July 2013 – Aiming to help develop a road map for women's engagement in efforts to bring peace to Africa's long-trouble Great Lakes countries, the United Nations envoy for the region has gathered nearly 100 women, including ministers, for a three-day meeting in Burundi to underscore the fact that “women's leadership matters.”

The commander of the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the U.N.'s new intervention brigade in Congo is not a magic solution to the country's problems. He says his priority is to stop atrocities, wherever they are happening in the east of the country.

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo were drawn into a gun battle between unidentified gunmen and the M23 rebel group Wednesday and shot four of the attackers, a U.N. spokesman said.