Basile Ikouebe

December 11, 2009 -- "Last month, the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo presented its latest report to the UN Security Council. Over the years, the Group of Experts has conducted critical investigations into ...  

The Security Council decided today to extend until 31 May 2010 the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), expressing the intention to extend it further following consideration of ways to enhance MONUC’S ability to protect civilians.  

UNITED NATIONS -- The Security Council streamlined the mandate of its controversial peacekeeping force in Congo on Wednesday to help it better protect civilians trapped in violence in the east of the country. The force was extended for only five ...  

23 December - Faced with widespread reports of massacres and other serious human rights abuses by Government soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today again called on United Nations peacekeepers to ...  

New York, Dec 24 : On the eve of the anniversary of last year's Christmas Day massacre of at least 477 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the top United Nations humanitarian ...  

UNITED NATIONS - Congo might expel leaders of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in retaliation for increased pressure on the nation's army to halt violence against civilians, the Congolese ambassador to the United Nations said.  

23 December 2009 " Faced with widespread reports of massacres and other serious human rights abuses by Government soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today again called on United Nations ...  

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to renew the mandate of peacekeeping forces in Congo by five months instead of the usual year amid plans to overhaul their role in the war-torn country. The extension ...  

Faced with widespread reports of massacres and other serious human rights abuses by Government soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today again called on United Nations peacekeepers to "use all necessary means" to protect civilians from threats from any party.  

"Minerals and arms smuggling worth millions of dollars persists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) despite international sanctions, fuelling rebel strength despite national army operations, and army and rebel soldiers continue to kill civilians, according to a new United Nations report that calls on the Security Council to take action to plug the gaps." - UN News, reporting on independent Group of Experts on sanctions on DRC  

GENEVA (Reuters) - Campaign groups from around the world, including many from Africa, have urged the United Nations to restore the post of U.N. rights monitor to the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying the situation there is dire. The Geneva-based U ...  

Congolese soldiers patrol through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The upsurge in rebel attacks in 2008 had created the conditions for the possible intervention of the EU.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosThursday, December 17, 200905:43 Mecca time, 02:43 GMT UN to end DR Congo operationCongolese soldiers backed by the UN have been accused of carrying out war crimes A controversial United Nations-backed...  

The United Nations is being forced into a drastic reappraisal of its 10-year military presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo where conflict, displacement, disease and hunger continue to undermine the peace its forces were sent there to keep. By ...  

The announcement last week that the United Nations peacekeeping effort in the Democratic Republic of Congo would end a joint military operation with the DR Congo army underscores the difficulty in any attempts by the international community to impose ...  

The war in Somalia has gone on twice as long as the conflict in mineral-rich Congo, where 17,000 United Nations troops, the largest peacekeeping mission in the world, are clustered in the eastern region, which is smaller than Northern California.