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Benguela — High ranking officials of the tripartite mechanism for dialogue and cooperation of Angola, DR Congo and South Africa met Thursday in central Benguela province to discuss the solutions to the conflicts that threaten international peace and security.

Peter Clottey

Last updated on: April 16, 2014 2:39 PM
Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) information minister has expressed concern that the conflict in neighboring Central African Republic (C.A.R) could threaten security of the entire region.

Virunga, a film by Orlando von Einsiedel, is among 12 finalists in the documentary category and will be shown at the Tribeca film festival. The film focuses on the struggles and sacrifices so many have made to protect Virunga from those who seek to plunder its riches.

The Associated Press and Sarah Dilorenzo, The Associated Press April 16, 2014 1:49 am

DAKAR, Senegal – The Belgian director of Africa’s oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded but his condition is improving, park officials said.

KINSHASA , April 14, 2014— A militia leader accused of kidnap, rape and cannibalism in Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday alongside four other people during a firefight as he sought to escape his army captors, the government said.

UNITED NATIONS — A new U.N. report shows limited progress in fighting sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where too few attackers have been brought to justice. The cases of sexual violence are highest in the eastern part of the country, where armed groups continue to threaten civilians.

GENEVA, Switzerland, IPU deeply regrets the sentencing of opposition leader and MP Diomi Ndongala by the Supreme Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo to 10 years imprisonment.

Peter Clottey

April 10, 2014 1:35 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) information minister says joint military offensives launched by the national army (FARDC) and the United Nations Mission to the country (MONUSC) to protect unarmed civilians have sharply reduced the number of rebel groups from 55 to about 20.

BY PETER JONES

TONGO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, a rebel group founded by ethnic extremists who took part in that slaughter still prowls the lush hills of neighboring eastern Congo, defying a renewed threat by the army and U.N. peacekeepers to dislodge it.

By Kris Berwouts

In the early morning of April 7, 1994 all hell broke loose in Rwanda. A few hours earlier, President Habyarimana’s plane had been shot down and crashed in the garden of his own palace. He was returning from a regional summit in Tanzania about the implementation of the peace agreement between the regime, based on the Hutu majority, and the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), who had grown up in the Rwandan refugee camps in Uganda and had started an armed struggle in October 1990. Habyarimana’s death triggered an unprecedented massacre of around one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The genocide ended when the RPF came to power in July 1994. Two million Hutus fled to Congo. Rwanda stabilized but the violence continued on Congolese soil and eventually led to what later was later called The Great African War.