A prisoner died every two days in the Democratic Republic of Congo, new figures suggest. The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) has revealed at least sixteen persons died in detention in the DR Congo in the month of October this year, an implied rate of one every two days. All the fatalities occurred […]
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Over a quarter of a million people have been displaced in Rutshuru territory since the beginning of clashes between the M23 rebels and the Democratic Republic of Congo army, FARDC, in March this year. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 262,000 people have fled their homes. Of those […]
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Fighting resumed for the fourth day between soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Congo national army, FARDC, and rebels of the March 23 (M23) movement in Ntamugenga in Bweza tribal group of Rutshuru territory in North Kivu. According to the spokesperson of the Sokola 2 operational sector in North Kivu, Lt.-Colonel Njike Kaiko Guillaume, the […]
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The national army of the DR Congo has promised it will punish an off-duty soldier who killed a child while in a drunken rampage. A spokesman for the FARDC said “the culprit will be called to answer for his actions before the law”. The pupil of the Minembwe primary school located near the town’s military […]
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Rebels have macheted and shot to death at least three people in North Kivu. Many more people are missing following the clashes, local civil society officials say. Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels early on Monday September 19, 2022 morning attacked the villages of Pointi and Maleki, located seven kilometres to the northeast of Oicha in […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army, FARDC, has confirmed that more than 800 inmates escaped from the Kakwangura prison in Butembo, after a jailbreak yesterday. Eleven people were killed in the process. Captain Anthony Mwalushayi, the army’s Operations Sokola 1 spokesperson, said the assailants were Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) combatants who came from the Mwalika […]
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Rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) injured two persons and burnt two vehicles on Thursday, July 14, when they attacked motorists on Komanda Luna highway, in the village of Ndimo Koto near Mambelenga in the Walese Vonkutu chiefdom of Ituri province of Democratic Republic of Congo. Christian Munyaderu, the coordinator of the Convention for […]
Read MoreSengi Schadrack, a journalist and former chief of the station, Radio Nouvelle Horizon, in Ndimo, Otomaber in Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been killed by a soldier of the country’s national army, FARDC. Christophe Munyanderu, leader of a human rights outfit in Irumu, said the incident happened on Friday, July 8, […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s national army, FARDC, has announced the opening of an inquiry into the murder of 13 persons, including patients in a health facility in Lume situated in the Ruwenzori sector of Beni territory in North Kivu on Thursday, July 7, 2022. The revelation was made on Friday, July 8, by Gilbert […]
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The Government of Rwanda has accused the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) of supporting the DR Congo army, FARDC. It said FARDC has been giving military assistance to the Rwandan rebel group, the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). “Supporting the FARDC whereas it fights side-by-side with […]
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Thousands of civilians have fled to Uganda after clashes between the troops of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national army, FARDC, and rebels of the March 23 (M23) movement entered the second day in Rutsiro, Bweza tribal group in Rutshuru territory of North Kivu. Fighting between the two sides started on Wednesday, June 29. About […]
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Residents of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have kicked against the decision of the leaders of the East African Community (EAC) to deploy a regional force to the three provinces concerned. The three provinces concerned are Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. The people say they prefer a reformed and reinforced Congolese national army, FARDC, […]
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