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AllAfrica News: Congo-Kinshasa
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'Watchlist' on Child Protection Launched
A press conference was held in the Canadian embassy in Kinshasa on May 15, 2008, to launch the "Watchlist" NGO report on the monitoring and communication of information mechanism concerning children in armed conflicts in the DRC. The Canadian government, who funded the report, reaffirmed its engagement and support to "all the concrete initiatives to improve the protection of children touched by armed conflict."
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UN Chief Sees Progress on Peace
Improved political dialogue in the Central African Republic (CAR), a peace conference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well as the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and CAR are all signs of progress towards peace in the region, the Secretary-General said today.
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Fresh Questions As Kony Remains Elusive
The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.
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Rebel Leader A No Show At Key Meeting
LRA leader Joseph Kony kept chief mediator and South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, religious and cultural leaders from northern Uganda waiting for five days at Nabanga at the Congo-Sudan border but failed to show up.
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Journalist Receives Death Threats From Leader of Armed Group
On 10 May 2008, Austere Malivika Yalala, a journalist with Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise's (RTNC) local Butembo and correspondent for the South Africa-based Radio Canal Afrique, received a death threat.
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Agency Begins Overland Return Operation to DRC
The United Nations refugee agency has expanded its repatriation operation to the town of Moba in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by launching road returns this week from Zambia.
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Progress Toward Peace in East?
Two agreements signed since the end of 2007 offer some hope for an end to more than a decade of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), even if fighting has continued and a lasting solution has yet to be found to the presence in the region of Rwandan Hutu rebels, according to analysts.
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Uruguayan Blue Helmets Receive UN Medals for Services to Peace
A ceremony was held in Kinshasa on Wednesday 14 May 2008 for Uruguayan blue helmets who received the UN medal, for distinguished services to MONUC. The Uruguayans received their medals from Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC.
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Congo Yet to Leave Disputed Area
Congolese forces are still holding the disputed border area at Vurra in West Nile, two days after President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, agreed on non-confrontational means to resolve the conflict.
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Congo Must Explain
President Museveni on Sunday discussed the border dispute with his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, in Tanzania. The meeting followed reports that Congolese forces moved their border post four kilometres closer to Uganda.
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Reconstruction Hinges on Eastern Province - Report
Congo?s reconstruction hinges on the Ituri district, where a new integrated peace-building strategy is required to prevent another round of violence.
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Human Rights Monthly Assessment - March 2008
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Four Priorities for Sustainable Peace in Ituri - Executive Summary and Recommendations
The risk of renewed violence in Ituri is limited today by the presence of the UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC), the dismantling of the majority of armed groups and the local population?s war weariness after years of suffering and destruction.
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Make Peace, Not War
At last Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have signed an agreement to end tension along their common border.
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Museveni Meets Kabila Over Border Dispute
President Yoweri Museveni met Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday for crisis talks that aimed largely at resolving a new border dispute.
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Govt Urges Congo to Disarm Rebels
Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.
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Workshop Held to Validate the Priority Action Plan for the Stabilisation of Ituri
The technical validation of the "Priority Action Plan for the Stabilisation and Community Reconstruction of Ituri" took place on Thursday 8 May 2008 in Bunia, Ituri district, during a workshop chaired by Mr. François Xavier Kubele Nesele, provincial Minister for planning, budget, trade, industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Museveni Discusses Border Dispute With Kabila
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday discussed the on-going border dispute with his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila in the Tanzanian capital Dar-es- Salaam.
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Mr. Doss Awards UN Medals to the Departing Tunisian Contingent
On 9 May 2008, on their departure from MONUC, the Tunisian military contingent, as well as their military observers and staff officers, were decorated in Kinshasa with United Nations medals for good and faithful services rendered to MONUC.
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'DRC Not Commited to Disarmament'
Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.
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