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26 Jun 2014, 7:16 am
Katanga, the alleged commander of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rebel group Force de refsistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI) was found guilty [JURIST report] of four counts of war crimes and one count of crime against humanity. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 10:59 am
The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) [official website] on Monday denounced [press release] the arrest of 30 opposition party members as part of a crackdown by President Joseph Kabila's [BBC profile] government. [read post]
17 May 2007, 6:21 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile] Thursday denounced the poor conditions of prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] during a visit there, deploring in particular overcrowding and inadequate access to justice. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 6:45 am
[JURIST] French authorities on Tuesday transferred [ICC press release] Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] leader Callixte Mbarushimana [case materials] to The Hague where he will stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on charges that the FDLR committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in 2009. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 6:49 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] warned of possible war crimes being committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] in a new report [report, PDF] released [press release] Tuesday. [read post]
19 Nov 2004, 9:07 pm
[JURIST] Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted Friday that a "small number" of UN civilian and military personnel had committed "gross misconduct" by sexually exploiting refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 2:54 pm
Bosco Ntaganda [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive], a former rebel in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has begun a hunger strike and is refusing to appear at his trial to protest the conditions of his detention. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 1:24 pm
A former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo [BBC profile] was found guilty [judgment, PDF] of bribing witnesses in his International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] trial for war crimes. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 11:45 am
Seven army officials have been arrested and charged [Le Congolais report, in French] with war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [CIA Factbook profile], according to government officials at a press conference on Saturday. [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 7:01 am
Kristof Titeca of the University of Antwerp examines how this rivalry is playing out in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 9:00 am
Native peoples - The Senate and the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) passed a law on the rights of indigenous peoples on December 30, 2010. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 9:22 am
[JURIST] The legal fate of captured Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel leader Laurent Nkunda [BBC profile] remained unclear Saturday, days after his surprise arrest in Rwanda. [read post]
16 Sep 2006, 6:23 am
[JURIST] UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland [official profile] told the UN Security Council on Friday that sexual abuse of women and girls by soldiers in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] "has become a cancer in Congolese society that seems to be out of control", and said the country's leaders needed to condemn and prosecute it. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 8:12 am
[JURIST] A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on [press release] the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] to do more to protect human rights workers in the country, and to prosecute those who harm them. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 3:37 pm
Virunga Energies, who supplies electricity to the region, said in a statement that the power cut was because of clashes between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and the March 23 Movement (M23). [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 6:52 am
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Bruno Lemarquis Wednesday indicated in a report that the UN will need to raise $2.25 billion to combat widespread the mass displacement of people in the DRC. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 7:56 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a report on Tuesday that attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may amount to crimes against humanity. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 12:47 pm
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday pardoned 26 men who had been convicted of plotting the 2001 assassination of then-President Laurent Kabila. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 6:51 am
Scholars, journalists and activists who have sought to understand and publicize the relationship between the tantalum supply chain and violence in the Congo, popularized the term coltan because this is the name used in the DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo]. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 6:51 am
Scholars, journalists and activists who have sought to understand and publicize the relationship between the tantalum supply chain and violence in the Congo, popularized the term coltan because this is the name used in the DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo]. [read post]
