Security situation for 2 October 2008 (6pm)
Kinshasa, 2 October 2008: In Ituri since last Monday, the remaining elements of the Front de Résistance Patriotique de l'Ituri (FRPI) have attacked the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) positions, capturing the camps of Tchey and…
Security Situation for September 29 2008
Kinshasa, September 29, 2008: The DRC Armed Forces (FARDC), based in Tchey and Quinz in the district of Ituri in Orientale Province underwent a simultaneous attack perpetrated by residual elements of the Front de résistance…
Security situation for September 28, 2008 (7pm)
Kinshasa, September 28, 2008: The MONUC Force Commander on mission in Goma, capital of North Kivu, discussed the chief of staff of the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) and his assistants with the aim of explaining the importance of…
Security situation for September 27, 2008
Kinshasa, 27 September 2008: A reinforced group made up of 40 members of the MONUC Indian police contingent was deployed this 27 September 2008 in Goma, capital of North Kivu province. This deployment is within the framework…
Security situation for September 26, 2008
Kinshasa, September 26, 2008: A peaceful demonstration in favour of peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took place today on the boulevard of June 30 in the capital Kinshasa. Nearly 3,000 people demanded the…
Security situation for 25 September 2008 (7pm)
Kinshasa , 25 September 2008 - In Dungu in Orientale Province, a crowd of hundreds of people attacked the MONUC observation post and the liaison office of the UN agency OCHA, plundering and destroying United Nations material…
Situation in the Kivus for September 23, 2008
Kinshasa - September 23, 2008 (7pm) – A precarious calm returned this Tuesday in North Kivu, and in particular in Sake, a town some 20km from Goma, and in its surroundings, which were the scene of intense clashes between the…
MONUC once more demands the immediate suspension of hostilities
Kinshasa, September 22, 2008 - Despite repeated calls for an immediate suspension of hostilities and the unconditional respect of the ceasefire by the signatories of the Goma Acts of Engagement, clashes took place, between…
Situation in the Kivus: September 21 2008 (evening)
Kinshasa - September 21, 2008 - After the intense clashes which took place yesterday in Sake heights, some 20km from Goma, capital of North Kivu, a relative calm was observed in the zone this Sunday, even if the situation…
MONUC launches an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Sake and its surroundings
Kinshasa - September 20, 2008 – New clashes with heavy weapons took place today between the forces of the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), on the…
Security situation in the Kivus -September 16, 2008
Kinshasa - September 16, 2008 (18h30) - Today, September 16, new clashes occured opposing the rebels of the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) and the FARDC in Kirotshe, a locality some 10km south of Sake, some…
Communiqué of the international facilitation
Kinshasa, 11 September 2008 - The members of the International Facilitation, signatories to the Actes d' engagement of 23 January 2008, express their grave concern with regards to the recent fighting in North Kivu and South…