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[Rapport Mapping 1/3] DRC: Tingi Tingi, the installation of the camp and the massacre

Ten years ago today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published his mapping report, a text on the most serious crimes committed in the DRC between 1993 and 2003 and especially during the two wars. of Congo. The village of Tingi Tingi, in the province of Maniema, is one of the places where some of these crimes took place: in March 1997, AFDL fighters, Alliance des forces democratiques pour la liberation du Congo - and RPA - the Rwandan patriotic army - killed Rwandans Hutu refugees there. These refugees were…

dozens of women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 50 women accuse employees of UN agencies and international NGOs of sexual abuse. WHO, among the accused agencies, announces the initiation of an investigation. This reveals a signed study The New Humanitarian and Thomson Reuters Foundation. Facts would have taken place between 2018 and 2020 as part of the fight against Ebola viruses. Women who never reported the rapes for fear of retaliation are accusing several employees of UN agencies and NGOs of sexual abuse. They are…

a plague on the economies of the African continent

Corruption, smuggling, tax evasion ... Capital flight would represent $ 88 billion a year in lost earnings for the continent. An estimate from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Unctad. According to the UN, the capital flight on the continent would represent $ 88 billion, but since this is illegal practice, it is an estimate. A rather low estimate even indicates Unctad. These $ 88 billion lost to African countries more or less represent what the continent receives each year if we add official…

the untraceable successor of Salamé as the UN Special Envoy

For seven months, Libya has been awaiting the UN appointment of a new special envoy to succeed Ghassan Salamé and the interim who took over the post from Stéphanie Williams. This country, divided between two powers, and which has been living in chaos since 2011, is going through a delicate period following the announcement of a ceasefire last month, which must be consolidated ... At the end of September, the American special correspondent Stéphanie Williams will leave her post. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is…