Central Africa

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, civilian movements organized marches in all of the country's major cities to demand justice for the crimes documented in the Mapping report. Ten years after the publication of this report, recommendations have remained dead letters, and crimes remain unpunished. About 5,000 people demonstrated this Thursday, October 1, in Bukavu, South Kivu Province, to demand the creation of a special court for the DRC. Whistles in the mouth, vuvuzelas, streamers and even torches in hand, almost…

More than 700 civilians died from 5 to 10 June 2000 in Kisangani after heavy arms conflicts between the Rwandan and Ugandan armies. Even today, the traces of this violence are still there and the pain is still alive. Monsignor Samuel Lotika has gray hair and well-worn glasses. The provincial president-bishop of Christ Church in Congo barely hides his teary-eyed eyes at the mention of the Six-Day War. “The first one was going to fall in the classroom where my son was studying. Many of the students were dead. It was also…

Ten years ago today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published his "Mapping" report on the most serious crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003. This unprecedented investigation was to put an end to more than a decade of impunity and had in one year registered 617 war crimes, crimes against humanity and possible genocide crimes. But since then, none of these crimes have been tried, and its recommendations remain a dead letter condemned by more and more voices in the Congo,…

UNICEF on Wednesday became the third UN agency to launch an internal investigation into the sexual abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and promised "serious consequences" for possible sins. The Children's Fund said in a statement that it was "shocked that people identifying themselves as UNICEF workers have allegedly abused vulnerable women in the Democratic Republic of Congo." It was not immediately clear how many UNICEF staff had been charged. "There will be serious consequences for any staff…

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…

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…

In Chad, the debate over the next election scheduled for 2021 is beginning to emerge. On the eve of the Independent National Electoral Commission's revision of the electoral rolls, the opposition is urging Chadians to join the lists en masse, but for a variety of reasons. Revision of electoral lists for the presidential electionbegins this Thursday, October 1, and the head of Transformers, Masra Succès, invites everyone Chadians who does not yet have a voting card to acquire what he calls a "massive transformation…

In front of the members of his party, the United Hearts Movement, Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéraa announced on Saturday his candidacy for the presidential election scheduled for December 27 in the Central African Republic. "It is a heavy responsibility. A very heavy responsibility. I agree to be your candidate, ”the head of state declared. Évariste Ngamana, chief rapporteur and spokesman for the MCU, which held its first congress there, answers RFI's questions. .

The NGO's Evangelical Non-Violent Action Group (Ganve) condemns rape cases with violence against prisoners in the Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi. According to this NGO, it all started after the fire for a weekend in one of the prison buildings of angry prisoners, some of whom tried to escape. Part of the dormitories had been destroyed and prisoners were grouped together with female prisoners. Today, these women, about fifty, will be at the mercy of these prisoners. Since this weekend, the female inmates at the Kasapa…

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was investigating allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of people who identified themselves as UN agency workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The WHO said its management and staff were "furious" over recent reports of sexual abuse by people who said they worked for the UN health agency in the Ebola campaign in the DRC. "The actions allegedly taken by individuals who identify themselves as working for the WHO are unacceptable and will be…