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Culture of Impunity As Obstacle to Peace in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo: http://www.larenaissance.info "If there is no end to the present culture of impunity in the DRC, the progress we seek on the political front may be hard to achieve," Guehenno told the Council at UN headquarters in New York on Thursday, adding that tho usands of people were being displaced and suffering human rights abuses. Guehenno was updating the Council on the continuing instability in the northeast of the country, and steps taken by the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) to achieve a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Bemba's rebels ready to fight for northeast Congo: http://www.larenaissance.info Impunity obstructing the restoration of peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bemba says he will fight to take control of Beni, and has also warned that he is prepared to battle for the strategic town of Bunia -- if Kinshasa tries to intervene there. His own troops have openly violated a ceasefire signed by the MLC in Ituri, and stand accused of massive human rights abuses against civilians, killings and cannibalism... U.S. vows to weed out al Qaeda from Africa: http://www.larenaissance.info "The Combined Joint Task Force is prepared for an extended war on terrorism," Sattler said. "We will press the fight at every turn, as long as it takes, against those who seek to spread hatred and fear, both in the Horn of Africa region and around the world, with the help of our coalition partners. "We will find and defeat the al Qaeda terrorist network which moved out of Afghanistan and are coming across the Gulf of Aden into the Horn of Africa," Maj. Gen. John Sattler, Commander of.... To read: http://www.larenaissance.info |
