The Democratic Republic of Congo has long been the scene of conflict, internally and involving her neighbours.

The ethnic conflict in Ituri province was the subject of one of the ICEG's ... (20 Feb 2000)
Since that time, there have been many more massacres, and there is still no international peacekeeping force because the members of the U.N. Security Council are unwilling to spend the money necessary to send one. The UN Observer Mission in the Congo (MONUC) has an inadequate mandate and personnel to ...

Inter-ethnic massacres have claimed "hundreds of lives" in DR Congo's troubled n (6 Apr 2003)
"They're talking about several hundred dead," General Kale Kaihura, commander of Ugandan troops in the region bordering Uganda, told AFP by telephone from the Ituri town of Bunia. The casualties were found in the towns of Drodro and Largo and were said to be members of the Hema community. They ...

Congolese Are Killed in Attacks on Villagers (6 Apr 2003)
Nairobi (AP) - At least 966 people were killed in attacks on more than a dozen villages in northeastern Congo last week, United Nations officials said today after a preliminary investigation. It is not clear who carried out the attacks, which occurred in Ituri Province, the scene of some of ...

DR of Congo Presents Frightening Picture of Human Rights Abuses (10 Nov 2003)
Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "create a frightening picture of one of the most serious human rights situations in the world," according to a report to the United Nations General Assembly. The Special Rapporteur on the DRC's human rights, Iulia ...