A press conference was held in the Canadian embassy in Kinshasa on May 15, 2008, to launch the "Watchlist" NGO report on the monitoring and communication of information mechanism concerning children in armed conflicts in the DRC. The Canadian government, who funded the report, reaffirmed its engagement and support to "all the concrete initiatives to improve the protection of ...

Improved political dialogue in the Central African Republic (CAR), a peace conference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well as the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and CAR are all signs of progress towards peace in the region, the Secretary-General said today.

The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.

The United Nations refugee agency has expanded its repatriation operation to the town of Moba in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by launching road returns this week from Zambia.

On 10 May 2008, Austere Malivika Yalala, a journalist with Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise's (RTNC) local Butembo and correspondent for the South Africa-based Radio Canal Afrique, received a death threat.

A ceremony was held in Kinshasa on Wednesday 14 May 2008 for Uruguayan blue helmets who received the UN medal, for distinguished services to MONUC. The Uruguayans received their medals from Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC.

LRA leader Joseph Kony kept chief mediator and South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, religious and cultural leaders from northern Uganda waiting for five days at Nabanga at the Congo-Sudan border but failed to show up.

Two agreements signed since the end of 2007 offer some hope for an end to more than a decade of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), even if fighting has continued and a lasting solution has yet to be found to the presence in the region of Rwandan Hutu rebels, according to analysts.

Congolese forces are still holding the disputed border area at Vurra in West Nile, two days after President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, agreed on non-confrontational means to resolve the conflict.

President Museveni on Sunday discussed the border dispute with his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, in Tanzania. The meeting followed reports that Congolese forces moved their border post four kilometres closer to Uganda.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Congo’s reconstruction hinges on the Ituri district, where a new integrated peace-building strategy is required to prevent another round of violence.

The risk of renewed violence in Ituri is limited today by the presence of the UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC), the dismantling of the majority of armed groups and the local population’s war weariness after years of suffering and destruction.

At last Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have signed an agreement to end tension along their common border.

The technical validation of the "Priority Action Plan for the Stabilisation and Community Reconstruction of Ituri" took place on Thursday 8 May 2008 in Bunia, Ituri district, during a workshop chaired by Mr. François Xavier Kubele Nesele, provincial Minister for planning, budget, trade, industry, and small and medium-sized enterprises.

President Yoweri Museveni met Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday for crisis talks that aimed largely at resolving a new border dispute.

Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday discussed the on-going border dispute with his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila in the Tanzanian capital Dar-es- Salaam.

On 9 May 2008, on their departure from MONUC, the Tunisian military contingent, as well as their military observers and staff officers, were decorated in Kinshasa with United Nations medals for good and faithful services rendered to MONUC.

Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.

As Uganda and the DR Congo remain deadlocked in a new border dispute, there are indications that the authorities in Kampala will not be as provocative as the Congolese have been even as President Yoweri Museveni hopes to meet his opposite number Joseph Kabila in Dar es Salaam this week.

Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila, are meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, early next week to discuss border issues.

THE United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is to investigate accusations that their soldiers supplied arms to Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels.

The Angolan Government approved, with the publication of the State Gazette of April 14, the cooperation protocol with the Democratic Republic of Congo for the research and production of hydrocarbons in a Common Interest Maritime Zone.