L'Agence d'Information

24/03/13 

appel à une enquête international

Après deux jours de combats, la coalition FARDC/FDLR a dû se replier loin de la ligne du front. Encore ce matin, un obus est tombé sur Goma en tuant une femme. Sur les origines de ces frappes meurtrières les déclarations sont divergentes et le M23 fait appel au Secrétaire général de l’ONU pour une enquête internationale indépendante.

After two days of fighting, the coalition FARDC / FDLR had to retreat away from the frontline. Just this morning, a shell fell on Goma, killing one woman. On the origins of the deadly strikes statements are divergent and the M23 calls the Secretary General of the UN for an independent international investigation.

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A Conversation with two young filmmakers who visited M23 .

 

For almost four years the rebel group M23 has been in control of much of Eastern Congo. The group says that it is fighting the government of DRC, blaming it for its failure to honor a 2009 peace deal. The Kinshasa government says that the group's demands were met,and instead accuses Rwanda of using the group as a proxy to fight and plunder the mineral rich region. The U.N. Security Council in a first of its kind arrangement, authorized an offensive military force to mount operations against the rebels.

 

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L'Agence d'Information

22/08/13 

Les hélicoptères déchaînés des FARDC

Les combats ont repris au Kivu, entre la coalition FARDC-FDLR-Maï-Maï – appuyée par la Monusco –, et le M23, ces mercredi 21 et jeudi 22 août 2013. Ce jeudi, les hélicoptères des FARDC se sont d’abord "exercés" sur les antennes d’une station de télécommunications, et auraient ensuite bombardé le territoire rwandais, sans faire de victimes, et la ville de Goma, où plusieurs civils sont morts.

Fighting resumed in Kivu between the coalition FARDC-FDLR-Mayi-Mayi – supported by MONUSCO –, and the M23, this Wednesday 21 and Thursday, August 22, 2013. On Thursday, the FARDC helicopters first "exercised" on antennas of a telecommunications station, and would have then bombarded Rwandan territory, causing no casualties, and the city of Goma, where several civilians died.

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By Nixon Segawa

8/13/12 

The DRC army faced yet another big blow after one of its top commanders at the rank of Colonel defected with 60 soldiers.

Colonel Richard Bisamaza, the acting commander of the first sector of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) abandoned his work station in Beni (North-Kivu), before fleeing 60 kilometers northwest of the province.   Bisamaza’s motive remains unclear but sources say he had defied an order to report to his superiors in Kinshasha.

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L'Agence d'Information

13//08/13

 Les cours et recours d’une histoire douloureuse dans une crise sans fin

Depuis 9 ans jour par jour, l’acte de génocide de Gatumba, dont les responsables courent toujours, évoque la tragédie congolaise d’un Etat bâti sur la haine raciale et dont les raisons semblent aujourd’hui partagées par les grandes puissances et les hautes instances des Nations Unies.

Today, exactly 9 years ago, day by day, the Gatumba massacre, an act of genocide, was a Congolese tragedy whose perpetrators are still at large. The tragedy is the image of a state built on hatred and racial division, which seems today to be shared by the Western powers and the top executives as well as the entire structure of United Nations.

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IRINNEWS

8/09/13 

 GOMA, 9 August 2013 (IRIN) – Three years ago when Jean*, 41, applied for a license to open a hardware shop in Goma, capital of North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he had to pay a fee of US$1,500 to the General Tax Directorate, and the whole process took a year. 

“Every time I went to the [tax] office, they denied I ever paid the money, yet I had an official receipt from the General Tax Directorate. I had to pay a bribe to get the license,” he told IRIN. 
Since opening, Jean has had to contend with different people claiming to be government officials coming regularly to his shop asking him to pay additional taxes. 

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By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, August 3 — After UN Peacekeeping run by Herve Ladsous announced a 48 hour "ultimatum," in New York several Security Council members told Inner City Press that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon or at least his Great Lakes envoy Mary Robinson hadn't known of and weren't happy with the threat.

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