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Category: Democratic republic Of Congo

Congo conflict: Who is telling the truth on M23 rebels

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is under siege after the rebel group, M23 captured Goma the capital of North Kivu province, on Tuesday, this week, threatening peace and stability in the already troubled Central African nation.Unfortunately, the latest conflict occurred at the time when world attention especially from the Western world was mainly focused on the current Gaza bloody war... Read More

Horrific Ambush on DR Congo Doctor: Dr. Denis Mukwege

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 Denis Mukwege Mukengere is the founder and medical director of Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was attacked in his home tonight at gunpoint. Exactly one month ago he was addressing the United Nations about the crisis that he faces every day in the Congo with the women who are victims of sexual violence. He said in… Read More

The South African movement of yesterday is the Congo Movement of today

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By Jennifer Fierberg with Kambale Musavuli The war in the D.R. Congo is not improving and is actually getting worse by the day. The M23 rebel group backed by the Rwandan Military has been terrorizing the Eastern Region of the Congo for many months. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, raped or killed. The International Community has begun… Read More

They are killing them softly

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By: Ambrose Nzeyimana That’s Timothy B. Reid’s argument. Them, it’s Congolese. And they, are countries, particularly Western, and mainly US and Britain, which for years have been fuel-ling wars in Central Africa, and especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo . The author in his contribution to a research work of the Humanitarian Tragedy in the DRC states how countries... Read More

DR Congo’s Lubanga found guilty by ICC

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has found Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers during the final years of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1998-2003 war. Lubanga, 51, on Wednesday became the first suspect on whom the Netherlands-based international court has delivered a verdict since it was established a decade ago. The former leader of… Read More

Explosions at Congo Weapons Depot Kill Scores

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DAKAR, Senegal — A series of explosions at a weapons depot in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, killed scores of people on Sunday, according to Congolese Web sites and news agency dispatches. A man was treated at a hospital on Sunday after multiple explosions occurred at a munitions depot in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Witness described collapsed… Read More

STOP THAT SILENT GENOCIDE IN Kivu (eastern DRC)

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The recent presidential and legislative elections in DR Congo have been opportunities for internal and external enemies of our country, to mercilessly pursue the poor indigenous population in eastern Congo. In its determination to invade and annex the east of DR Congo, Rwanda has tried unsuccessfully to conquer by pitched battles, now opted for a more subtle and certainly more… Read More

Nightmare in the Congo

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By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW Imagine the entire state population of Arizona murdered in an 11year period by neighboring rebel groups, all six million people. The women of Phoenix, Flagstaff, Camp Verde and other cities brutally raped while their children and husbands watched. After this horrific act of war, the husbands are shot, dismembered and the women left bleeding and ruined... Read More