What exactly is happening in North Kivu?
In late October, the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) armed opposition group launched a major offensive against government military positions in North-Kivu province. Within days, government forces in the province all but collapsed. The CNDP captured the important town of Rutshuru, and advanced to the [...]

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As the civilian death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to rise, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and more than forty other organizations active in Africa warned today that the situation in the eastern DRC is at risk of turning into a humanitarian catastrophe, and called on the UN Human Rights Council [...]

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Killings, Abductions, and Pillaging by Lord’s Resistance Army Continue
The UN Security Council should urgently increase the number of peacekeepers to help protect civilians in northern Democratic Republic of Congo following renewed attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), four international and national human rights organizations said today.
Human Rights Watch, Enough, Resolve Uganda, and the Justice [...]

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There are 1.6 million refugees in eastern Congo. The numbers in the refugee camps are multiplying rapidly, approximately 250,000 civilians have been displaced since August, when renewed hostilities broke out between the DR Congo government and rebel forces let by Gen. Laurent Nkunda’s. Violence peaked in late October
At Kibati camp, four kilometers north of Goma, [...]

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EU and Other UN Member States Should Send More Peacekeepers
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other African and international leaders meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, this weekend should take immediate action to protect civilians who are at severe risk in eastern Congo, 10 human rights and humanitarian agencies, including Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, ENOUGH and the [...]

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Strengthen UN Peacekeepers to Protect Civilians
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s forces and government-backed Mai Mai militias deliberately killed civilians in Kiwanja, North Kivu province, on November 4-5, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today. UN peacekeepers based in the area were apparently unable to protect civilians from attack.
Nkunda’s forces battled pro-government Mai Mai militias on November 4 [...]

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African and international leaders meeting tomorrow, 7 November, at an international summit in Nairobi, Kenya, need to urgently press the United Nations Security Council to provide reinforcements and specialist personnel and equipment to the UN peacekeeping force in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo so that it can better protect civilians, Amnesty International said today.
“The [...]

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Intensify Diplomacy and Bolster UN Peacekeeping Force to Save Lives
The United States, European Union, and African Union should urgently intensify diplomatic efforts to protect civilians and bolster the UN peacekeeping force in eastern Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. As a result of the fighting in North Kivu, which resumed in August after the collapse [...]

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