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Under a crystal chandelier in a hall where the first Geneva Convention was signed in the mid-19th century, representatives of two armed groups in Congo signed solemn pledges this week to both their violence-wracked country and the wider world: We will do better to respect and protect civilians. With several Western diplomats looking on, the…

The representatives of the two armed groups made an agreement that their forces will work to end sexual violence, food insecurity and conditions of famine, and to ensure greater access to health care in the parts of increasingly violent eastern Congo that they operate in and control.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed summary executions and forced recruitment of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese army is responding to the M23’s offensive by collaborating with ethnic militias with abusive records.

Download logoCongolese army units backed armed groups implicated in serious abuses in the recent conflict with M23 rebel forces in eastern Democratic

Congolese army units backed armed groups implicated in serious abuses in the recent conflict with M23 rebel forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today.

When Tshisekedi came to power, he promised to "sacrifice himself in order to bring peace" to eastern DRC.

By CISA GOMA, JANUARY 29, 2021 (CISA)-A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suffering. “What happens is great misery, it’s always war! The great misery of the population, who feels like they are abandoned. And then a lot of suffering is what we encountered,” Archbishop Marcel Madila Basanguka, Arch...

Human rights abuses escalate in Africa during the pandemic Governments on the continent should co-operate fully with the International Criminal Court 18 January 2021 - 14:21 Mausi Segun To describe 2020 as a most unusual year would be an understatement. The global Covid-19 pandemic, which introduced us to a “new normal”, was soon followed by waves of almost worldwide protests on racial injustice and police brutality that resonated loudly in Africa. Not long after the virus spr...