Planet Watch
UN: world refugees break record
War across large swaths of the Middle East and Africa in the first six months of 2014 forcibly displaced some 5.5 million people, signalling yet another record, the UN reports.
Tag: DRC
Africa
Police ‘anti-crime’ extermination campaign in DRC
The decades-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leaving in its wake a police state that sees impoverished youth as a threat and seeks to exterminate them.
Africa
Jihadist hand seen in new Congo massacres
A series of massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is widely blamed on an Islamist insurgent group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces-NALU.
Africa
ICC upholds Lubanga conviction
The International Criminal Court upheld the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Democratic Republic of Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.
Africa
ICC convicts Congo militia leader of war crimes
The International Criminal Court found Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga guilty of four counts of war crimes and one count of crime against humanity.
Africa
Congo: intervention force against Islamist rebels?
Ugandan Islamist group ADF-NALU is blamed for a massacre in eastern DR Congo, just as the UN intervention force announced a new drive against remnant guerillas.
Africa
Congo: Katanga next for mineral boom —and war?
Following defeat of the M23 rebels in the war-torn east, the DRC is touting an imminent mineral boom in southern Katanga—despite a spreading separatist insurgency.
North Africa
Mauritania: polls boycotted, slavery condemned
Mauritania's opposition parties will boycott upcoming elections, seen as legitimizing a dictatorship, while a "Global Slavery Index" names the country as the world's worst offender.
Africa
NYC Congolese protest Paul Kagame, Elie Wiesel
New York area Congolese protested a panel on Syria that Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel shared with Rwandan President Paul Kagame—who they accuse of massive war crimes.
Africa
Is Rwanda really bombing itself?
The DRC charges that Rwanda's government used its M23 proxy rebel force to shell its own territory—as a provocation to justify a direct military intervention in eastern Congo.
Africa
HRW protests Rwanda aid to Congo rebels
Human Rights Watch reports that the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still receiving assistance from Rwanda despite continued human rights abuses.
Africa
China mining firms contribute to Congo abuses: AI
Chinese-owned mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are contributing to a culture of human rights abuses, Amnesty International reports.