Dem. Rep. Of Congo

21 March 2016 by François Sergent

Week in Review: Impunity in the Great Lakes, Truth and Justice in Mali and Germany The Great Lakes region of Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, was at the heart of transitional justice developments this week. On Sunday, genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was tr [...]

18 March 2016 by AFP

DR Congo ex-leader faces landmark ICC war crimes verdict The International Criminal Court on Monday delivers its verdict against former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, blamed for a campaign of rapes and killings by his private army in the Central African Republic. It is the [...]

15 March 2016 by Habibou Bangre, correspondent in Kinshasa

“Raping a Woman is Against Humanity,” Says Dr. Mukwege Doctor Denis Mukwege arrived back in Kinshasa on Sunday for showings and discussions of two films about his work: “Congo, a Doctor to Save Women” by Angèle Diabang of Senegal, and “The Man who Mends Women” by Thierry Michel and Co [...]

11 February 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net

Case of Murdered Congolese Rights Defender Referred to UN Ten years after prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu was shot dead by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), his family is filing a complaint before the United Nations, Swiss NGO Track Impunity Always (TRI [...]

3 February 2016 by Habibou Bangre, Kinshasa correspondent

DR Congo’s First Genocide Trial Gets Stuck It was supposed to be an historic trial for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first one for alleged crimes of genocide. But the case has got bogged down at the Appeals Court of Lubumbashi (southeast). This court was given the [...]

20 January 2016 by Habibou Bangré, Correspondent in Kinshasa

DR Congo Wants to Try Returned ICC Convict Again Germain Katanga wanted to go back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to rejoin the army or become a farmer, but the judicial authorities have not finished with him. “He will be tried for acts other than those dealt with by the IC [...]

17 December 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague

ICC Rejects First Reparations Demand from an Acquitted Person Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on December 16 rejected a reparations request from Mathieu Ngudjolo, an alleged militia leader who spent nearly five years in ICC detention but was acquitted of crimes in the easter [...]

17 November 2015 by Habibou Bangré reporting from Kinshasa

DRC and the Difficulties of Returning "M23" Rebels to Civilian Life After a military defeat in late 2013, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel movement is trying to turn itself into a political party. The group was formed in May 2012 in North Kivu, an unstable eastern province of the DRC t [...]

1 November 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net

Weekly Summary: Women and peace, plus African ex-Presidents facing justice Saturday October 31 marked fifteen years since the UN adopted Resolution 1325 calling for women’s participation at all stages of peace processes. The aim was to ensure that the voice of women, who pay a heavy price in conflicts ar [...]

26 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net

"MAKE WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE TALKS COMPULSORY," SAYS CONGOLESE ACTIVIST October 31 marks exactly 15 years since the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, which calls for the participation of women at all stages of peace processes. Fifteen years on, results on the ground seem meagre. In the Democrati [...]

21 October 2015 by JusticeInfo.Net

RWANDA EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL STOPS JUSTICE FOR CRIMES IN CONGO, SAYS LAWYER In October 2010, the United Nations published its “mapping” report on crimes committed in the former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This dense and detailed report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights looks [...]

7 October 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net

URGENT REFORMS NEEDED TO CLOSE CONGO IMPUNITY GAP, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Impunity still rules in the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially in the east, where rebel groups -- and also the Congolese army -- have killed, looted and raped. The government has apparently made some effort to bring justice [...]

29 September 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent

CONGOLESE SENATOR BEMBA IN NEW ICC TRIAL Congolese Senator and former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba again faces judges of the International Criminal Court in a new trial that started September 29. On trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the Ce [...]

3 September 2015 by AFP

Bosco Ntaganda at the ICC, "I am a soldier, not a criminal' Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda told his war crimes trial Thursday he was 'a soldier, not a criminal', breaking his silence for the first time since surrendering to the International Criminal Court."I have been described as [...]

14 July 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net

APPEAL FOR “URGENT” ARREST OF ICC-WANTED REBEL LEADER IN EASTERN CONGO The Democratic Republic of Congo government and United Nations peacekeepers should “urgently act to arrest the rebel leader Sylvestre Mudacumura and transfer him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague”, says Human [...]

14 July 2015 by Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, Tino Kreutzer

New Data on Security and Rule of Law in Eastern DRC The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) has released the results of the first two polls out of a series of 10 polls to be conducted in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The polls were carried out in December 2014 a [...]

16 June 2015 by Dr Valérie Arnould

Transitional Justice’s Uneven Path in the DRC In a country marked by protracted conflicts which are estimated to have caused the death and displacement of millions of civilians, transitional justice efforts have been slow and patchy. Despite some recent advances, in particula [...]

10 June 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent

Former ICC Witness Regrets Testifying Pierre Mbodina Iribi, an imprisoned ex-member of the Congolese intelligence services, is a former witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has been in jail in Kinshasa for more than ten years. In spring 2011, he w [...]