In Democratic Republic of Congo, the Roman Catholic community leaders planning a peaceful march on Sunday say they will go ahead with the protest despite a lack of approval from Kinshasa authorities. The Comité Laïc de Coordination (CLC) said Friday that “Christians, believers and men and women of goodwill” from all walks…
The United Nations refugee agency said it was “shocked and saddened” by the news that at least three dozen refugees and asylum seekers from Burundi were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for an investigation into the incident in Kamanyola,…
The intrusion by Congolese military forces earlier this week at a United Nations base in the violent Kasai region has received strong condemnation from the head of MONUSCO mission Maman Sidikou. Sidikou, the UN special representative in Democratic Republic of Congo, said the incident was especially troubling because it was…
”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…
Church officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called for an end to a string of violent attacks against Roman Catholic churches and facilities in the country. The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and MONUSCO, the UN Organization Stabilization Mission for DR Congo, issued a joint statement Friday…
The United Nations Security Council said it is closely monitoring political developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and remains concerned about escalating violence and instability ahead of the December 19 election deadline. “The Security Council reiterates its call upon all political parties, their supporters and other political actors to…