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I03 07 14 Save the Congo – nternational Criminal Tribunal for DRC
Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP
Secretary of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London
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03 07 14 HRW DR Congo: Army, UN Failed to Stop Massacre
Apparent Ethnic Attack Kills 30 Civilians
Read More25 06 14 AfricanArguments – rDRC Elections: Will Kabila stay or go? And many other questions on the road to 2016
– By Manya Riche and Kris Berw
Joseph Kabila is believed to be undecided over whether he will try to stand for a third term in Congo’s 2016 election.
Read More24 06 14 The Hill – In Congo, third time's no charm
By J. Peter Pham, contributor
By every right, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ought to be one of the richest countries in the world. The Belgian geologist René Jules Cornet, whose work in the 1890s uncovered the Congo's immense mineral reserves — currently valued by some estimates at more than $24 trillion and including 70 percent of the world's coltan, 30 percent of its diamond reserves, as well as vast amounts of cobalt, copper, gold and many other sought-after primary commodities — dubbed the territory a "veritable geological scandal." The real scandal, however, is that this treasure has yet to better the lives of the people of Africa's second-largest and fourth-most populous country. To the contrary, the most recent edition of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index ranked the lush, mineral-rich DRC at the absolute bottom of the 187 countries and territories included in the survey (tying landlocked, mostly desert Niger for last place), while the Fund for Peace's 2013 Failed States Index put the country in 177th place out of 178 countries (just a notch above long-collapsed Somalia).
Read More19 06 14 AfricanArguments – The Mutarule massacre: conflict from below in eastern Congo – By Kris Berwouts
On the evening of Friday 6th June, at least 33 unarmed Congolese civilians were killed in and around the village of Mutarule, on the plains of the Ruzizi river, 9 km from Sange, between Uvira and Bukavu. The Minister of Communication and spokesman of the Congolese government, Laurent Mende, called the incident a revenge attack by the community of a cattle herder killed during an attempt to steal cows belonging to another farmer. The victims (8 children, 17 women and 8 men) belonged to the ethnic community of the Bafuliru.
Read More19 06 14 RwB – Journalists Threatened, Political Broadcasts Banned During Election
BY REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS,
Democratic Republic of Congo's journalists are finding it harder and harder to work because of threats and censorship of political debate.
Read More11 06 14 The Guardian – Soco halts oil exploration in Africa's Virunga national park
British oil company bows to pressure and abandons drilling in volatile and biodiverse region of Democratic Republic of Congo
Read More11 06 14 HRW – DR Congo: Summit Should Support Justice for Rape Victims
Countries Should Endorse Specialized Mixed Chambers
Read More11 0 14 AfroAmerica Network – 302 Rwandan Defense Forces Special Forces Land At Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa
Rwandan Defense Forces Special Forces Sent to Kinshasa
“Last night, military planes carrying more than three hundred and two Rwandan soldiers and M23 former rebels landed here, at the Ndolo airport. I then saw a column of military truck carrying them towards the military camp of Kakolo,” sources at the Ndolo Airport in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told AfroAmerica Network.
Read More10 06 14 ICC: Congolese Warlord to Go to Trial
Bosco Ntaganda Case Shows Need to Bring Ranking Officials to Justice
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