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Kinshasa/Geneva, 13 October 2010 – A high-level panel convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC reported Wednesday on its preliminary findings that the…

Kinshasa, 13 October 2010 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) welcomes the International Criminal Court's initiative having led to the arrest of Mr. Calixte Mbarushimana, the…

Kisangani, 11 October 2010 - About 134 tons of election equipment transported by the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) arrived at Kisangani on 9 October 2010 from Kinshasa by ferries…

Kinshasa, 8 October 2010 - MONUSCO expresses its deepest concern over the death of Armand Tungulu Mudiandambu, who died in military detention at a camp in Kinshasa the midnight of 1 and 2 October. Armand Tungulu Mudiandambu…

New York/Kinshasa, 6 October 2010 – UN Secretary-General held his regular monthly press conference at the UN headquarters during which he touched on the "mapping report" concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…

Goma, 30 September 2010 - After a money changer was killed by an armed man in Kiwanja town, Rutshuru territory on 25 September, the population suspected the people in the local camp for internally displaced persons to be…

Kinshasa, 6 October 2010 - In an earlier statement today MONUSCO relayed that it had received information alleging the mistaken identity of Sadoke Kikunda Mayele. Mayele's identity was subsequently confirmed. He was…

From 30 July to 2 August 2010, a coalition of forces of the Mayi Mayi Cheka and the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) as well as forces under Colonel Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, a total of at least 200 fighters…

Kinshasa, 05 October 2010 – A joint action carried out by MONUSCO North Kivu Brigade and the Government of DRC, on 05 October 2010 in the region of Walikale resulted in the arrest of "Lt-Col" Mayele, a member of the Mai Mai…

Geneva, 1 October 2010 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a ten-year period by both…

Kinshasa/Geneva, 29 September 2010 – A high-level panel, convened by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will meet with and hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC. Through interactive dialogue, survivors…

Kinshasa, 28 September 2010 - Margot Wallstrom is in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a working visit from 28 September to 6 October 2010. This is a follow up to her previous mission to the country in April 2010; and also…