Ex FDLR au Rwanda

L'annonce a été faite samedi à Goma, par Bruno Donnat, responsable de la section désarmement, démobilisation, rapatriement, réinstallation et réhabilitation, DDRRR de la Monuc au chef-lieu

KINSHASA, Jan 31 - Rwandan and Ugandan troops deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo to fight rebels will return home by the end of February, Congolese President Joseph Kabila told journalists in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday.

Thousands of soldiers from Congo's eastern Great Lakes neighbours, which attacked the giant central African country in a 1998-2003 war, launched joint operations with the Congolese army in December and early January.

"It was a difficult decision, but a decision was needed... The deadline must certainly not go beyond the

The UN peacekeeping mission in DRC, known as MONUC, will set up a planning an liaison task force to support the operation aimed at defeating the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), based in eastern DRC.

"We expect to be primarily associated with planning operations," said the Secretary-General''s Special Representative

Capitaliser les avancées acquises!

La crise sécuritaire et humanitaire de l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) perdure, certes, depuis plusieurs années. Elle est même devenue cyclique. Elle s'étend du Nord au Sud-Kivu, touchant une bonne partie de la Province Orientale. Cette crise est à la base du déplacement de plus de deux millions des personnes, vouées à l'errance, pillages, tueries, viols et autres exactions contre leurs droits fondamentaux. Mais, l'année 2008 s'est achevée sur une lueur d'espoir , même si les habitants

1. Le rapatriement et la réintégration des réfugiés burundais.

2. Protection et assistance de 26 341 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, dont 16 778 Congolais installés dans les camps de Gihinga (Mwaro), de Gasorwe (Muyinga) et de Musasa (Ngozi), et 230 Rwandais dans le camp de Giharo (Rutana). Le HCR au Burundi assiste sous diverses formes et veille également à la protection de quelque 9 307 réfugiés urbains et demandeurs d'asile, dont 99 % sont originaires de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC).

Congolese Influx

Following attacks by suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters in Nabiapai on 26 December, the relocation exercise from the border sites to the Makpandu settlement in Western Equatoria State was temporarily suspended. Transfer from the border sites resumed on 6 January, and as of end January Makpandu hosted 879 individual refugees (422 households). In the meantime, over 2,000 Congolese refugees newly arrived at Ezo, Western Equatoria State due to suspected LRA activities.

Great Lakes

ADB finances a road project to open up Burundi and Rwanda

According to a dispatch by the African Press Organization (APO, Tunis, in 17/12/08), African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors approved an African Development Fund (ADF) grant of 100 million US$ to Burundi and Rwanda, to finance the Mugina-Bujumbura-Nyamitanga-Ruhwa- Ntendezi -Mwityazo- Gisenyi Road Project. Rwanda and Burundi, which are landlocked countries far from any sea ports, have experienced a long period of political instability, leading to the deterioration of their infrastructure

About 970,000 people — 95 percent of the population — in Karamoja are food insecure, compelling an Emergency Operation (EMOP) by the World Food Programme (WFP) to stem widespread hunger. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda requiring assistance has dropped from 1.2 million to about 765,900, bringing the total number of vulnerable people to 1.83 million, including a total of 95,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan.