Democratic Republic of Congo, North Kivu: Conflict annoying
Three and a half years after the civil war in North Kivu, fighting mary peters between armed groups escalated. According to several reports, former rebels defected to the national army and began to ransack villages in North Kivu in July 2012.
Such as Médecins sans Frontières have found last September, the Congolese health workers fled in large part. They are not alone: in some regions, such as the city Pinga, about a third of the population fled. Observers fear a humanitarian catastrophe. The conflict spreads course throughout the region including Rwanda, is accused of supporting the rebellion in eastern Congo.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the poorest countries in the world. Under the condition of illegal logging mary peters during decades of war and persistent - despite the wealth of raw material - gold, copper, diamonds and coltan - the country is on the last place 187 of 187 total in the "Human Development Index" of UN 2011.
Besides ethnic tensions, the mineral wealth is one of the triggers of the conflict. For nearly twenty years, the struggle for control of land and power in the region persists. When one of the many militias, the Mai-Mai Kifuafui, seems to étalager strength. Because of the constant fighting, some 1.5 million men have been affected by a mass movement in the country, some 350,000 refugees fled the Congo.
According to a report by World Vision Uganda, many refugees arriving in the camps in Uganda, are younger mary peters than 15 years. "They flee forced recruitment," said a representative organization. The situation is the same in Rwanda: Congolese children separated from their parents reach the reception centers undernourished and haggard. However, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has helped 25,000 people to return to their villages as part of a program of assistance for voluntary repatriation.
In the context of declining government mary peters of Hutu in Rwanda by Tutsi rebels in 1994, one hundred thousand Hutus crossed the border in the DRC. The activities of Hutu militias "Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR)," formed among others by officials of the Rwandan genocide among others, continue his fight against the Tutsi - sometimes with the support of combat troops to Kigali Tutsi Congolese.
A Rwandan combatants integrated into the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) is Bosco Ntaganda. March 23 movement he founded, is charged with multiple war crimes. In July 2012, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him. Meanwhile, reports on the struggles of the official army against mary peters Ntaganda not stop. While new soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) are sentenced in February to prison by a Congolese court, crimes of all sides largely unpunished. So many Congolese army forces and other armed groups are blamed for mass rape and other abuses of human rights. Amnesty International believes that insecurity has increased as attempts to integrate the armed groups into FARDC appears to be stranded, which created more difficulties talkative additional difficulties. mary peters
The Director-General of the Ministry for African Affairs of the United States, Johnnie Carson, has expressed his concern mary peters for the situation in the DRC. "It is the responsibility of President Kabila to protect the population from violence, or without regard to ethnicity, or the language," he said in early October in New York.
For Belgium, the territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo must be respected. Any external support the mutineers must stop. Let there be no illusion that this is not denying the fact that the facts do not exist. Nobody is fooled by what happens on the ground. Belgium requests every country in the Great Lakes region to commit to respect the sovereignty of Congo. (Elio Di Rupo, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United Nations mary peters General Assembly, September 26, 2012)
Do not call the DRC and Rwanda to the German ambassador to revive the dialogue or the Prime Minister of Belgium, Elio Di Rupo, in the context of the assembly of the Security Council of the UN bear fruit visible. The Security Council has extended mary peters the mandate of the mission for the stabilization of the organization in DRC, MONUSCO, until 30. June 2013.
Tags: Flüchtlingslager, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, Kivu, North Kivu, repatriation, refugees, Republic
Three and a half years after the civil war in North Kivu, fighting mary peters between armed groups escalated. According to several reports, former rebels defected to the national army and began to ransack villages in North Kivu in July 2012.
Such as Médecins sans Frontières have found last September, the Congolese health workers fled in large part. They are not alone: in some regions, such as the city Pinga, about a third of the population fled. Observers fear a humanitarian catastrophe. The conflict spreads course throughout the region including Rwanda, is accused of supporting the rebellion in eastern Congo.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the poorest countries in the world. Under the condition of illegal logging mary peters during decades of war and persistent - despite the wealth of raw material - gold, copper, diamonds and coltan - the country is on the last place 187 of 187 total in the "Human Development Index" of UN 2011.
Besides ethnic tensions, the mineral wealth is one of the triggers of the conflict. For nearly twenty years, the struggle for control of land and power in the region persists. When one of the many militias, the Mai-Mai Kifuafui, seems to étalager strength. Because of the constant fighting, some 1.5 million men have been affected by a mass movement in the country, some 350,000 refugees fled the Congo.
According to a report by World Vision Uganda, many refugees arriving in the camps in Uganda, are younger mary peters than 15 years. "They flee forced recruitment," said a representative organization. The situation is the same in Rwanda: Congolese children separated from their parents reach the reception centers undernourished and haggard. However, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has helped 25,000 people to return to their villages as part of a program of assistance for voluntary repatriation.
In the context of declining government mary peters of Hutu in Rwanda by Tutsi rebels in 1994, one hundred thousand Hutus crossed the border in the DRC. The activities of Hutu militias "Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR)," formed among others by officials of the Rwandan genocide among others, continue his fight against the Tutsi - sometimes with the support of combat troops to Kigali Tutsi Congolese.
A Rwandan combatants integrated into the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) is Bosco Ntaganda. March 23 movement he founded, is charged with multiple war crimes. In July 2012, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him. Meanwhile, reports on the struggles of the official army against mary peters Ntaganda not stop. While new soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) are sentenced in February to prison by a Congolese court, crimes of all sides largely unpunished. So many Congolese army forces and other armed groups are blamed for mass rape and other abuses of human rights. Amnesty International believes that insecurity has increased as attempts to integrate the armed groups into FARDC appears to be stranded, which created more difficulties talkative additional difficulties. mary peters
The Director-General of the Ministry for African Affairs of the United States, Johnnie Carson, has expressed his concern mary peters for the situation in the DRC. "It is the responsibility of President Kabila to protect the population from violence, or without regard to ethnicity, or the language," he said in early October in New York.
For Belgium, the territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo must be respected. Any external support the mutineers must stop. Let there be no illusion that this is not denying the fact that the facts do not exist. Nobody is fooled by what happens on the ground. Belgium requests every country in the Great Lakes region to commit to respect the sovereignty of Congo. (Elio Di Rupo, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United Nations mary peters General Assembly, September 26, 2012)
Do not call the DRC and Rwanda to the German ambassador to revive the dialogue or the Prime Minister of Belgium, Elio Di Rupo, in the context of the assembly of the Security Council of the UN bear fruit visible. The Security Council has extended mary peters the mandate of the mission for the stabilization of the organization in DRC, MONUSCO, until 30. June 2013.
Tags: Flüchtlingslager, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, Kivu, North Kivu, repatriation, refugees, Republic
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