Category: Human rights
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G5 president breaks silence on why the organization was formed
The President of G5 an organizations that brings together ethnic tribes of Alur, Nyali, Hema and other communities Dr. VITAL TUNGULO has come out in open to clarify that, G5 is not a political party, but a structure that brings together the communities that are victims of the massacres in Ituri. The Doctor made the…
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Two civilians killed and several houses burnt down by ADF in Mambasa
On Sunday June 25, 2023, armed men identified as ADF rebels invaded the locality of Manya on National Road number 4 in Mambasa territory of Ituri province. According to local civil society, the rebels killed two civilians during the incursion and set fire to several houses belonging to the local population. This organization denounces the…
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New Congolese civil society reacts to deaths in Mahagi central prison
At the end of the day, there was a deadly crisis at the Mahagi central prison in the territory bearing the same name in Ituri province. Eight inmates have died in six months, with the most recent case occurring on Wednesday June 21, 2023. The new Congolese civil society is sounding the alarm. Its spokesman,…
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Fishermen cry, seek help as Uganda destroys fishing gears
As the government reports tremendous success in its operation to eradicate illegal fishing methods under the current laws of Uganda, fisher communities cry foul over inability to acquire the recommended gears. From Dei landing site in Pakwach district to Ntoroko on Lake Albert, communities have the same chorus of crying over their dying traditional source…
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Nearly 30 Ugandans killed by the ADF in Bwera, a village on the DRC-Uganda border
Around thirty Ugandans were killed during an incursion by ADF rebels from the DRC, on the night of Friday June 16 to Saturday June 17 in Bwera. The ADF attack took place in a boarding school at the Lhubirira Lycée in Mpongwe, in the Ugandan town of Bwera, not far from the shared border between…
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Ituri military court issues arrest warrant for 21 alleged perpetrators of the Lala attack
The superior auditorate of the Ituri military court has just opened a judicial file against twenty-one alleged members of the CODECO and Zaïre armed groups. They are charged with participation in an insurrectional movement for violence committed on the night of June 12-13 at the Lala site for displaced persons in Djugu territory. Other offences…
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The Irumu TA praises the discipline of the armed groups who signed the Aru Act of Engagement in Ituri
The military administrator of the Irumu territory hails the collaboration between the armed groups who signed the act of commitment to cease hostilities after their return from the Aru inter-armed group dialogue. Colonel Siro Nsimba Bunga Jean made this statement at a meeting of the local security committee, extended to include the territory’s customary entities,…
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Patriotic Resistance fighters known as “Wazalendo” set up taxes in Binza, warns human rights activist in Rutshuru
Patriotic resistance fighters known locally as the “Wazalendo” are accused of harassing tax collectors in Binza, Rutshuru territory, North Kivu. Since November 2022, the Binza groupement in northern Rutshuru territory, 100km from Goma on the Congolese-Ugandan border, has been under the control of groups of resistance patriots commonly known as “Wazalendo”. This area was under…
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Several children die of measles in Tshopo Province
The disaster is only getting worse in the urbano-rural commune of Lubunga after the fighting between the Mbole and Lengola communities. More than 10 children died in the sites where the victims of this tragedy are housed, which caused several deaths in the commune of Lubunga. According to several sources, these kids died of measles. The…
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Massacre of displaced persons in Djugu, Lieutenant Jules Ngongo describes the killing as an act of sabotage of the peace, security and social cohesion process initiated by the government
The FARDC spokesman in Ituri province considers the massacre of displaced persons at the Lala site in Djugu territory as sabotage of the peace, security and social cohesion process. Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) in Ituri, described the massacre of displaced persons at the Lala site in Djugu…