Rwandan Rebels Raped at Least 179 Women in Congo, Humanitarian Officials Say →
A mob of Rwandan rebels gang-raped at least 179 women last month during a weekend raid on a community of villages in eastern Congo, the United Nations said Monday. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or F.D.L.R., was blamed for the attack. The F.D.L.R. is an ethnic Hutu rebel group that has been terrorizing the hills of eastern Congo for years, preying on villages in a quest for the natural resources beneath them. The raided villages are near the mining center of Walikale, known to be a rebel stronghold, and are “very insecure,” Stefania Trassari, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Sunday. “Rape is something we get quite often.”
DRC: Lubanga Chronicle #94: A Landmark Trial in the Hands of Appeals Judges →
The future of the ICC´s first trial is hanging by a thread. Four judges at the Appeals Chamber will decide the fate of one man, the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Diylo, and whether to continue a case that seeks to deliver justice for the victims of heinous crimes committed in the Ituri region between 2002 and 2003.
Former UN Peacekeeper Reflects on Congo Experience →
Donald Luscombe was just 19 when he arrived in the Congo in 1963 as part of a Canadian U.N. peacekeeping force. “I was just a kid,” he told CNN. “You hoped to make a difference. That’s what we were trying to do — each one of us was trying to make a difference.” During his six-month deployment in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), he had a Kodachrome 35 mm camera delivered and began taking photos. “I know most photos from this time are black and white, so I thought a few of my father’s Kodachrome color photos might be interesting,” his son Jeffrey, who shared the photos with CNN iReport, said.
Flooding in the DRC →
Floods ravage DRC’s Equateur area
KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) - About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late July.
Videos - Logging in DR Congo's Rainforests →
In June 2010, Greenpeace took Oscar-winning French actress, Marion Cotillard, to visit the tropical rainforests in the heart of the DR of Congo to witness logging in the Congo Basin. This Basin is one of the last remaining natural forests and is threatened by massive logging.
Check out Africa Action's new online resources for the Congo Campaign: Resources for the People →
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Photos From "Congo Independence 50 years Later: The Continuing Pursuit" →
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Check out Africa Action's new Congo Curriculum →
With a lesson plan, handouts, a time line for students, and a briefing book for educators on the Congo— this curriculum should help any teacher understand what is happening today in the Congo and educate their students about the conflict in the Congo, and how connected students are to the Congolese people, and how to get involved to end the conflict!
