El Memeyi Murangwa 

05/10/07                                                       

Sentant une fin prochaine à leur projet macabre de continuer à mettre de l’huile sur la fournaise du Nord Kivu, les politiciens élus grâce aux urnes sécurisées par le FDLR s’agitent et multiplient communiqués pour refuser toute facilitation quand à une solution politique pour un retour de la paix au Kivu. 

Les adeptes de l’assaut final contre les positions du CNDP ne ferment plus l’œil et repoussent avec force la suggestion du ministre belge des Affaires Etrangères.   C’est en effet en marge de la 62ème session de l’assemblée générale de l’Onu que M. Karel De Gutch, a suggéré au Secrétaire Général de l’Onu Ban-Ki-Moon, de nommer un facilitateur pour essayer de mettre fin au conflit en République démocratique du Congo.

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IRIN

10/03/07

KIGALI, 3 October 2007 (IRIN) – The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) has no evidence that the Congolese army has joined forces with outlawed Hutu and Mayi-Mayi militia groups to purge a rebellion by dissident army commander, Gen Laurent Nkunda, a spokesman for MONUC said on 3 October.

MONUC's military spokesman, Maj Gabriel de Brosses, was reacting to media reports indicating that a new alliance, known as the Front for the Liberation of North Kivu, was patrolling parts of eastern Congo alongside the army.

The government of the DRC has vowed to eliminate from its eastern provinces armed militiamen known as the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), which include in their ranks some of the perpetrators of neighbouring Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.

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By Joe Bavier

04/10/07

KINSHASA (Reuters) – A Russian-made cargo plane with 17 people on board crashed and exploded on Thursday in a teeming neighbourhood of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, killing many people, officials and witnesses said.

The Antonov aircraft belonging to Congolese airline Africa 1 came down on several shacks in the Kingasani neighbourhood near Ndjili international airport, the sources said.

"There were 17 people on board," said airport protocol official Jean-Claude Bakongo. A major explosion followed the crash, he said. "I saw it fall in the Kingasani neighbourhood."

Another airport security official who went to the crash site told Reuters fire fighters had struggled to reach the wreckage in the shanty town.

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