Informes

General Daily reports of very low intensity fighting in the country continue. Over the past week there have been reported hostilities in the town of Kakata. This fighting has caused some movement of an unknown number of internally displaced people and…

NAIROBI, 15 September (IRIN) - As UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo extend their authority beyond Bunia, the main town of the country's troubled northeastern district of Ituri, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and its…

S/2003/875 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1497 (2003) of 1 August 2003, by which the Council authorized the deployment of a multinational force in Liberia and declared its readiness to…

KINSHASA, 11 September (IRIN) - General David Padiri Bulenda, one of the most prominent leaders of the Mayi-Mayi militias in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was inaugurated on Friday into the leadership of the newly-unified national military, and given…

Current Context The veneer of calm in Monrovia masks a continuing and serious humanitarian and human rights emergency in the country as a whole. Though the capital remains superficially calm and business activity is picking up, there is a significant…

Appeal Target: US$ 819,141 Geneva, 10 September 2003 Dear Colleagues, The Lutheran World Federation Department of World Service (LWF/WS) working with the Eglise du Christ au Congo (ECC) with its member churches would like to maintain their presence in…

(September 9, 2003) This information is based on interviews conducted by a Human Rights Watch researcher in Liberia from August 23 - September 9, 2003. The interviews were conducted in Monrovia and Buchanan with displaced persons, child soldiers, rape…

BRAZZAVILLE, 2 September (IRIN) - France has provided €80,000 in emergency aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Pool region of southern Republic of Congo, Francois Ibara, the head of communications at the Congolese Foreign Ministry, told IRIN on…

KINSHASA, 29 August (IRIN) - A series of meetings held last week in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), brought together representatives of armed militias from the troubled Ituri District of northeastern DRC, who held…

MONROVIA, 29 August (IRIN) - Small signs are emerging that life in the Liberian capital Monrovia is beginning to return to normal following the signing of a peace agreement on 18 August aimed at ending 14 years of civil…