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(Near Verbatim) FORCE COMMANDER LT. GEN. ISHMAEL OPANDE Gen. Opande: It is my pleasure to be here today. I hear you have been complaining that you have not had an opportunity to speak to me. So really the ball is back…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS While a transition government is scheduled to be installed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in June 2003, the program of the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC) for voluntary disarmament and demobilisation, repatriation, rehabilitation…

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 23 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the government of Sierra Leone have kicked off a large-scale registration exercise that will eventually enable refugees in the country to receive identity cards and enjoy better…

As the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to work out a plan with militia leaders to confine their combatants in the Ituri region, fighting has been reported in the northern part of…

TABOU, Côte d'Ivoire, May 22 (UNHCR) - In an attempt to ease tensions between the local community and an estimated 15,000 Liberian refugees arriving in south-western Côte d'Ivoire this week, the UN refugee agency today distributed relief supplies to…

Representatives of the United Nations sole forum on indigenous issues said today that they had received allegations of atrocities, including mass murder and cannibalism, carried out by the military and other armed groups against the indigenous pygmy minority in the…

Security Council Members Your Excellency, In recent days, the Security Council has expressed growing concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Ituri, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite the signing last week of a cease-fire, the potential for the…

United Nations staff and local Red Cross workers have recovered close to 280 corpses as an uneasy quiet settles over the town of Bunia, site of a brutal inter-ethnic power struggle that has gripped north-eastern Democratic Republic of the…

(New York, May 21, 2003) Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International today jointly called on the U.N. Security Council to authorize the deployment of a rapid reaction force to protect civilians in Ituri, in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

ICRC delegates based in the eastern Congolese city of Goma last week reunited 43 unaccompanied children with their families, some living in the eastern part of the country and others in the west. In what has become a monthly…