Democratic Republic of the Congo
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS A senior official of Congo-Kinshasa has said that the United Nations team investigating allegations of massacres against refugees was "free to go anywhere in the country", according to a United Nations spokesman. The team will soon meet with the…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Background The Friends of Congo meeting takes place in Brussels on 3rd and 4th of December. It will be chaired by Callisto Madavo, Vice President of the World Bank, and attended by major multilateral and bilateral donors including the World…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
SG/SM/6405 AFR/32 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: I can confirm that this morning the Secretary-General was on the verge of pulling out his human rights investigative team from the Democratic Republic…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * AI INDEX: AFR 02/31/97 Amnesty International today raised the alarm about the apparently coordinated efforts by the Governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi -- and reportedly also…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Members of the team sent by the Secretary-General to investigate allegations of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo met Congolese officials on Tuesday. The United Nations investigators met with Foreign Minister Bizima Karaha and Interior…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Newton Kanhema, PANA Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) South Africa is under pressure from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the mushrooming of opposition groups threatening to take arms against the Laurent Kabila Government. One of these, a branch of…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR) has expressed concern about the expulsion of people in four countries of the Great Lakes Region in Africa. UNHCR Spokeswoman, Pam O'Toole told reporters on Tuesday that the expulsions, which started…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
THE United Nations has accused the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) of showing little more respect for human rights and democratisation than Mobutu Sese Seko's dictatorship. A report was released as UN investigators returned to Kinshasa…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The WHO team investigating the extended outbreak of human monkeypox continued its mission in Kasai Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo in October 1997. It included representatives of the national government, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Communicable Disease…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has said that the people of that country do not enjoy the human right to democracy. In his report to the…
