9 September 10 - From Human Rights Watch: Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August. Read

1 September 10 - From UN News: The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has expressed deep concern after the apparent abduction of a human rights defender who had spoken out against alleged rights violations by members of the country’s (...) Read

31 August 10 - From the Guardian: As the Guardian reported last week, a 600-page report by the UN high commissioner for human rights was leaked, documenting the role of Rwanda in possible genocide in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the late (...) Read

30 August 10 - Human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the UN’s failure to prevent a raid by armed groups who systematically gang raped 200 women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month. Read

28 August 10 - Sudan’s elusive President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and the unrelenting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo are playing a political cat- and-mouse game. Read

26 August 10 - From VOA News: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday urged the U.N. Security Council to consider new measures to protect civilians in Congo, where more than 150 villagers were raped by rebel groups in late (...) Read

25 August 10 - Despite its minuscule share of world trade, fair trade is a booming business, importing certified foodstuffs and products from all over the world to Northern supermarkets. But there is increasing concern that this growth is yet to benefit poor countries in (...) Read

20 August 10 - From BBC News: Human rights activists have accused Kenya of secretly sending four terror suspects to Uganda after the World Cup bomb blasts in Ugandan capital Kampala. Read

18 August 10 - From the New York Times: Civil rights activists said that Congo’s official investigation into the death of a human-rights campaigner looked like a cover-up Read

17 August 10 - From the Guardian: The new UK government has made it clear that an important priority of its foreign policy will be to promote British trade and investment abroad. But recent remarks in Sudan by the Africa minister, Henry Bellingham, raise concerns that, by blindly pursuing commercial (...) Read