Investigative journalists whose work focused on what really happened to United Nations experts Zaida Catalán of Sweden and American Michael Sharp in the Democratic Republic of Congo have won top honors from the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) organization for their work. The “Deceptive Diplomacy” reporting, which won in the…
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has again suspended the trial of a witness to the murders of two United Nations experts in the Kasaï region in March 2017 who later became a suspect himself. A hearing in Kananga is rescheduled for next week so that Jean…
Investigative reporting from an international team of journalists has raised new questions about who’s responsible for the deaths of two United Nations experts killed in Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017. The report was jointly conducted by Foreign Policy in the United States, French media outlets Radio France International…
A defendant believed to hold key information in the case of two United Nation experts killed in Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017 has now died in prison himself, raising concern from a Congolese human rights organization about the nature of his death. Norbert Kengayi wa Kengayi died earlier…
The Congolese minister for human rights said Monday that the remains of at least two people traveling with United Nations experts Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo when they were killed have been found. Isaac Kabuayi, a motorcycle driver, and interpreter…
Congolese officials say two people arrested at the weekend are leaders responsible for the high-profile deaths of United Nations experts in the volatile Kasais a year ago – including a man who appears in the video recording of their murders. Vincent Manga, leader of the militia group Kamuina Nsapu, and…
Three international experts have been assigned to investigate allegations of mass killings and other grave human rights violations in the Kasai provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo. The appointments of Bacre Ndiaye of Senegal, Fatimata M’Baye of Mauritania and Canadian Luc Côté were announced Wednesday by the United Nations Office…
Journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have reviewed a video that appears to document the violent deaths of United Nations experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in March. Government officials made the video available to reporters in Kinshasa on Monday, stressing that the dress and manner of…
The bodies of two United Nations experts missing since March 12 in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been positively identified, the UN said in a statement late Tuesday. The remains of Zaida Catalan of Sweden and Michael Sharp of the United States were discovered by United Nations Mission in…
”Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.” On March 3, in a prescient last Twitter message sent by United Nations expert Zaida Catalan before she disappeared in the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo, Catalan passed along this ancient proverb often attributed to…
A global human rights organization is calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to begin an inquiry into violations in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is an epicenter of the violence and political crisis that also has afflicted North Kivu, Kinshasa and other regions….
A spokesman for MONUSCO, the United Nations (UN) mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, said the UN is doing “everything that is possible” to locate two experts on a humanitarian mission who were abducted near the village of Ngombe over the weekend. Charles Bambara confirmed on Monday that the two…