Rapports

Jerome Hule, PANA Correspondent NEW YORK, (PANA) - The need to perform special customary rituals, before allowing the United Nations investigative team to unearth bodies, was the main reason why local chiefs in Wendji village of the Democratic Republic of…

By Niccolo Sarno BRUSSELS, Dec 10 (IPS) - Activists say gross human rights abuses continue in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, only a week after donor nations agreed to put reconstruction ahead of rights issues in former Zaire and…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS A United Nations Spokesman has said that the investigations of allegations of human rights violations in Mbandaka, Congo-Kinshasa remains a priority. Spokesman Juan Carlos Brandt told the press on Tuesday that the team sent by United Nations Secretary-General to the…

DATE=12/16/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-224185 TITLE=CONGO/PROBE (S) BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK DATELINE«IDJAN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATORS LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO HAVE RETURNED TO THE CAPITAL, KINSHASA, FOLLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS THAT THREATENED THEIR SECURITY. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL…

(Secretary of State renews U.S. commitment to DROC) (690) By Robert Fullerton and Jim Fisher-Thompson USIA Staff Writers WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has urged Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC) President Laurent Kabila "to move ahead with planned political…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations team sent to investigate allegations of violations of human rights in Congo-Kinshasa has been evacuated from Mbandaka to Kinshasa. According to a United Nations Spokesman, the evacuation of the investigators from the northwestern town in the…

S/1997/994 I have the honour to refer to the situation in the Great Lakes region and Central Africa, and to the need to adjust the United Nations political presence in that region to the new environment brought about by the…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The team sent by United Nations Secretary-General to probe allegations of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has started its field work, but delays and difficulties continue, according to a United Nations Spokesman. Members of…

By David Fox KIGALI, Rwanda (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday at least 231 people were killed and an estimated 227 others wounded in an attack on a camp in northwest Rwanda housing ethnic Tutsi Congolese…

Brennan Linsley reported for Reuters on December 11 that Hutu rebels operating from base camps inside the DRC attacked the Mudende camp for Tutsi refugees in northwestern Rwanda today and killed more than 200 people. Linsely's report says the…