Monday 7 June 2010
By Thomas on Monday 7 June 2010,
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park, once known as
a haunt for militias and a vicious Ugandan rebel group, is open for tourism,
the park's main Western donor said.
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Saturday 15 May 2010
By Thomas on Saturday 15 May 2010,
The United Nations insisted on Saturday any pull-out of peacekeepers from
Democratic Republic of Congo would depend on security conditions, while the
central African state stuck to an end-2011 deadline.
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Friday 14 May 2010
By Thomas on Friday 14 May 2010,
A United Nations' Security Council delegation arrived in Kinshasa on Friday
to persuade Congo that a gradual withdrawal of 20,500 peacekeepers would be
better than the swift exit the government wants.
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Thursday 13 May 2010
By Thomas on Thursday 13 May 2010,
Democratic Republic of Congo should renegotiate the terms of its Lake Albert
oil deals to avoid the "oil curse" that has fed corruption and poverty in other
energy producing nations, an advocacy group said on Thursday.
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Tuesday 11 May 2010
By Thomas on Tuesday 11 May 2010,
Congo's state-run mining firm Gecamines said on Tuesday an
apparent agreement by Platmin Congo to sell its majority stake in a copper and
cobalt concession to Chinese miner Zijin may be illegal.
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Monday 10 May 2010
By Thomas on Monday 10 May 2010,
The United Nations will pull 2,000 peacekeepers out of Congo by end-June but
propose that the remaining 20,000 leave only when security improves, France's
ambassador to Congo said on Monday.
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Thursday 6 May 2010
By Thomas on Thursday 6 May 2010,
At least 20 people died and a further 60 were feared dead after a boat
capsized in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Red Cross and United Nations
officials said today.
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Monday 3 May 2010
By Thomas on Monday 3 May 2010,
The Democratic Republic of Congo is looking to intensify military operations
against rebel groups on its territory, a top aide to President Joseph Kabila
said on Monday despite a U.N. appeal for negotiated solutions.
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Sunday 2 May 2010
By Thomas on Sunday 2 May 2010,
The United Nations is investigating reports that Ugandan Lord's Resistance
Army rebels killed 100 people in February, the latest in a string of massacres
in Congo's remote northeast.
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Saturday 1 May 2010
By Thomas on Saturday 1 May 2010,
A hasty withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers from Democratic Republic of Congo
will undermine humanitarian work in the restive central African state, the top
U.N. aid official said.
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Wednesday 28 April 2010
By Thomas on Wednesday 28 April 2010,
The endangered eastern lowland gorillas were taken from
Congo to a sanctuary to avoid being captured or eaten.
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Monday 26 April 2010
By Thomas on Monday 26 April 2010,
Gunmen have killed up to eight people in an attack on a Congolese army
training camp in the east, military and U.N. sources said on Monday, also
warning of a possible attack on a key trading town nearby.
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By Thomas on Monday 26 April 2010,
Copper and cobalt production from Democratic Republic of Congo will more
than double over the next two years, signalling a surge in revenues, according
to a government forecast obtained by Reuters on Monday.
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Friday 23 April 2010
By Thomas on Friday 23 April 2010,
The Democratic Republic of Congo will make the cleansing
of all rough diamonds compulsory before export from mid-June, according to a
document provided to Reuters by the mines ministry on Friday.
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By Thomas on Friday 23 April 2010,
La République démocratique du Congo (RDC) rendra obligatoire la purification
de tous les diamants bruts destinés à l'exportation à compter de la mi-juin,
selon un document fourni vendredi à Reuters par le ministère des Mines.
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Thursday 22 April 2010
By Thomas on Thursday 22 April 2010,
Congo's military high court has overturned the death sentence handed down to
two Norwegians convicted of murder, espionage and conspiracy last year after
their driver was found dead in the jungle.
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By Thomas on Thursday 22 April 2010,
A Congolese rights group has accused government soldiers of summarily
executing 49 people during clashes with rebels earlier this month, but the
government rejected the report as "fraud.”
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Monday 19 April 2010
By Thomas on Monday 19 April 2010,
Congolese laws against sexual violence are not being
implemented and a withdrawal of United Nations peacekeepers from the country
would make the struggle against endemic rape "a lot more difficult," the U.N.
said.
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Friday 2 April 2010
By Thomas on Friday 2 April 2010,
After one year of encouraging signals from Belarus, the
last European country with the death penalty has brutally resumed secretive
executions and the harassment of abolitionist activists.
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Thursday 18 February 2010
By Thomas on Thursday 18 February 2010,
* Over 30 business reforms by mid-2010
* Questions whether civil service will implement them
* Congo eyes double-digit growth in 2012
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Thomas Hubert est un journaliste pigiste bilingue basé à Kinshasa, RD Congo depuis le premier trimestre 2009 et auparavant à Paris. Ce blog présente une sélection de ses articles publiés par divers médias et des notes sur la vie quotidienne à Kinshasa.