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U.N. peacekeepers in Congo are violating the laws of war and should immediately stop backing Congolese troops who have deliberately killed hundreds of civilians in an operation to oust rebels in eastern Congo, Human Rights Watch said.
A U.N.-backed military operation to thwart rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo has led to deliberate killings of more than 1,400 civilians in the country over a nine-month period, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
NAIROBI -- The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is collaborating with known human rights abusers as it backs a brutal Congolese military operation that has led to the deliberate killing of at least 1,400 civilians and a massive surge in rapes, according a report by the group Human Rights Watch.
Democratic Republic of Congo forces have retaken control of Dongo in the country's north-west where recent tribal clashes forced thousands to flee, a UN military source said Monday.
Human Rights Watch says a U.N.-backed Congolese military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, with more than 1,400 people deliberately killed over a nine-month period.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic Republic of Congo’s United Nations-backed military offensive against rebels in the east has resulted in the deaths of 1,400 civilians and in the near doubling of the number of rapes, Human Rights Watch said.
With the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) engulfed in bloodshed and terrorism due to the secretive occupation and expansion by the Rwandan regime of Paul Kagame, Congo’s President Joseph Kabila has reportedly requested an immediate emergency military intervention from Belgium to crush a growing rebellion sparked by resistance forces in the far Western Congo.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The following events and economy reports may influence trading in sub-Saharan African bonds and currencies today. Bond yields and exchange rates are from the previous session.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A human rights group says more than 1,400 civilians have been killed in eastern Congo during army operations to oust militiamen from the area.
The report, which said more than 1,400 were killed during two military operations, paints a bleak picture of a country that has been ravaged by civil war for more than a decade.
It isn't easy watching a doctor stick his hands in the living viscera of another human being, or seeing the look on a girl's face as she wakes from surgery to the realization that her parents are dead. But for the thousands of people who gather Monday night in movie theaters across the country to...
Add the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the latest suitor eagerly angling to host the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather Superfight on March 13, 2010. According to a published report in the Saturday December 12 edition of the New York Post, Congo President Joseph Kabila “is offering $30 million via Vincent Carroll, CEO of Vegas Style Entertainment, to Top Rank Boxing.”
Dozens of Illinois movie theaters have planned a one-night-only screening and discussion of a documentary about the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders.
The IMF announced Friday 624 million dollars in financing to the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo to help support poverty-reduction efforts and promote economic growth.
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- BNP Paribas SA sold its 25.6 percent stake in Banque Commerciale du Congo to investor George Forrest , De Tijd reported , without saying where it got the information.
The IMF announced Friday 624 million dollars in financing to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo to help support poverty-reduction efforts and promote economic growth.
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