Mary Robinson, the United Nation Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, visited the city of Goma today in the conflict-riven east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she pressed the importance of implementing a recently-signed regional peace agreement to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the region. MONUSCO
Mary Robinson, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, arrived to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday where she met with President Joseph Kabila, and Prime Minister Augustin Matata. MONUSCO
Burundi’s AMISOM contingent has been in Somalia since 2007 when street battles, mortar fire, and suicide bombings in Mogadishu were at their height. Medics working with the contingent have also been operating an outpatient clinic for SNA and AMISOM at Somalia’s former National University. AU-UN/IST
The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda held talks at UN headquarters today (27 September) on how to stop a "campaign of terror" that has uprooted over 300,000 people in eastern DRC since April and which Rwanda is alleged to be backing. UNTV / MONUSCO
Football players from across East and Central Africa will gather in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on September 21 and 22 to take part in the finals of the Great Lakes Peace Cup, a tournament organized to help former combatants – many of them abducted child soldiers – become part of their communities through the [...]
The UN representative for Burundi Charles Petrie tells the Security Council that despite positive developments, the upcoming elections are taking place, “against a backdrop of violence and real human suffering that affected this country only a few years ago” which could rise again, “as results are announced or in the resolution of any subsequent election [...]
In a historic gesture, Tanzania grants 162,000 Burundian refugees citizenship. The move represents the largest naturalization of any one refugee group at one time. UNHCR
The UN Human Rights Office is assisting the government of Burundi in leading a truth and reconciliation commission after three decades of conflict that left more than half a million people dead. UNCHR