Tag: DRC

Human rights advocacy NGO Human Rights Watch yesterday released a comprehensive report detailing abuses going on in the Eastern DRC, with a primary focus on the M23 rebel group. It lists a series of specific instances, and pulls witness testimonies for many of them. It also renews accusations that...

« We have sufficiently alerted to the ongoing genocide and condemn the silence of humanitarian and human rights organizations. We received more than 5,000 families in Bwiza fleeing the government coalition that is killing them. Enough is enough » -A tweet from both the M23 and Lawrence Kanyuka, a...

Efforts for peace continue to be made in the Congo. On the 23rd of November in Luanda, a peace conference was held in an attempt to solve the crisis ongoing in DRC’s east. At quick glance it may look like the conference, and the subsequent conference held in Nairobi...

« No one will take Goma » A strong message from Kenyan General Jeff Nyagah, the head of the East African Community’s (EAC) intervention force in the Eastern Congo. His promise is in regards to the recent advances of the M23 rebels, who have been placed a mere 20km from...

Two people are dead with 15 more injured after UN forces opened fire upon civilians and border guards  at a border crossing between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in the countries East. The shooting was caught on video, outraging people internationally. The video shows the UN attempting...

Anti-United Nations demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have turned deadly, with at least 15 people reportedly killed, as civil unrest brews in the country’s North Kivu province against what protestors say is a lack of action taken by peacekeepers to protect the region from waring rebel...