sources: Digital Congo, IRIN, Misna, AllAfrica
March 2 2005
-Several leaders of the militia group that is accused of having executed nine Bangladesh UN peacekeepers last week in Ituri have been arrested. It concerns the generals Sukpa, Katanga and Ndjabu of the FNI.
-At Loga village at least 50 militiamen were killed during fighting between Pakistani UN troops and elements of the FNI suspected to have killed nine UN peacekeepers in Ituri last on 25 February.
March 3 2005
-A representattive of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) said at a news conference in New York that MONUC needed better intelligence capabilities, especially air surveillance and electronic listening, as well as a refinement of the weapons embargo imposed by the Security Council.
March 7 2005
-The president of the Independent Electoral Commission has announced that the process of identifying voters will start before the end of June 2005.
March 16 2005
-The UN says about 226 000 people are victims of the daily exactions in the Walungu district (South Kivu). Subjected to lootings, rapes, kidnappings, the residents are under the law of the Rwandan militias.
- The African Union and representatives of central African Nations met 15 March to discuss the possibilities of sending troops to disarm Rwandan rebels in Congo.
March 17 2005
-MONUC says it had increased efforts to clamp down on arms supplies to all militia groups in Ituri. Gen. Patrick Cammaert, the dutch acting MONUC commander and chief of the missionŐs East Division, says: We can see the flow of arms coming from Uganda, crossing Lake Albert, but we donŐt know yet who is behind it.
March 21 2005
-The national Assembly has started reviewing the draft constitution. The Senate adopted the draft constitution las week.
April 1 2005
-The FDLR are ready to give up their armed struggle. The president of the FDLR, Murwanashyaka, announced in Rome in presence of the representatives of the Congolese government and the mediating community of San Egidio their intention to transform the movement into a political one and committed themselves to fighting any ideology of ethnic hate.
-MONUC has temporarily selected 6 assembly points: Hombo, Sake, Lubero, Walungu, Sange and Kanyabayonga to receive the FDLR-combatants willing to repatriate to Rwanda.
April 4 2005
-Representatives from Africa's Great Lakes region began a five-day meeting in Kenya's coast town Mombasa to work out how to implement the comprehensive declaration on peace, security, democracy and development that heads of state of the region signed in November 2004 in Dar es Salaam.
April 7 2005
-Southern Africa hopes to create a joint peacekeeping brigade by August as the first part of a mooted continental standby force of the African Union.
April 12 2005
-This weekend MONUC arrested Kahwa Mandro who is accused of being among those behind the upsurge in violence in Ituri since December 2004. According to the prosecutor in Bunia, Kahwa will be sent to the central prison in Kinshasa where Thomas Lubanga and other Ituri militia leaders are detained since March.
April 14 2005
-The International Crisis Group (ICG) urges president George Bush in his meeting with Rwanda's president Kagame on April 15 to press the Rwandan government to take concrete action to promote peace in the Congo.
-The UPC, one of the major militia groups in Ituri, announced an end to its insurrection in the district of Ituri.
April 15 2005
-The political implications of repatriating Rwandan rebels of the FDLR may be more complex than the move itself, analysts have said. Estimated at between 8000 and 15000, the insurgents has said they will sstop fighting and return to Rwanda, but would not recognise the country's grassroots gacaca courts.
April 18 2005
-Calling the situation in Congo a continuing threat to international peace and security, the UN Security Council today extended an arms and military financing embargo to any recipient in the country .
April 21 2005
-South Kivu is steeped in anarchy, insecurity is generalized in the province, according to a representative of the MONUC. In this deleterious climate, soldiers of the FARDC (the Congolese army) do nothing to restore order and security. Quite to the contrary, the thousands of troops, deployed for a little less than a year now, are paid $ 10 a month and receive no adequate food or housing. Officially, 8 million dollars goes out each month for the army, but where is this money going, of which part is provided by international donors?
April 28 2005
-Southafrican Anglogold Ashanti concern has obtained a concession of 8000km2 for the exploitation of goldmine Mongwalu (Ituri)
May 3 2005
-The European Union announced it would be assigning EU military and security advisers to posts within various key security sections of Congo's administration, including the private office of the minister of defence. The code-name will be EUSEC RDC.
May 4 2005
-Officials from Congo and Rwanda held a new round of security talks, expressing awareness of little progress since a March peace announcement by the FDLR.
May 6 2005
-The Rwandan president's advisor for the Great Lakes region says Rwanda will never negotiate the return of Hutu rebels of the FDLR. According to Richard Sezibera their return must be unconditional.
May 9 2005
-At least 30 civilians and military personnel suspected of plotting the secession of Katanga from Congo have been arrested in Lubumbashi.
-The International Court of Justice will hold hearings in June to determine if the complaint of Congo against Rwanda is admissible and whether the court has jurisdiction to decide the matter. In May 2002 Congo filed a complaint against Rwanda alleging massive violations of international humanitarian law resulting from acts of regression perpetrated by Rwanda on the territory of Congo.
May 10 2005
-Members of the Congolese National Assembly began adopting one by one the 219 articles of the draft Constitution. The document, which had been prepared and adopted by the Senate, foresees a semi-presidentiel system in a strongly decentralised State. It provides that the president will be chosen though universal direct suffrage in a two-round vote.
May 13 2005
-Congo's national Assembly adopted the country's draft constitution as part of a process aimed at restoring stability in Congo. The text, which will later be put to a national referendum, was adopted with 348 deputies voting for it and 5 against, with 8 abstentions among the 361 deputies present.
May 17 2005
-The CEI has asked the national Assembly officially the postponement of the elections, originally to be held before June 2005.
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