Save the Congo is calling upon MONUSCO to turn its attention to eliminating and to prioritise actions against Rwanda’s FDLR (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda), which is made up largely of Hutu refugees and whose leadership took part in the Tutsi genocide in 1994 in Rwanda, and has been operating with impunity in eastern…
Save the Congo is calling up the UNSC to renew MONUSCO FIB mandate when it expires this March to help neutralise all negative forces, foreign or local, tyrannising Congo’s eastern regions; and to consider tougher consequences for those parties who do not cease support to armed groups operating in Congo. On the adoption of UN…
(London) Save the Congo welcomes and support the potential of the 11+4 Congo Accord, which the former Irish President, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and now UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, Mrs Mary Robinson, has termed as “A Framework of Hope” for the peoples of the Great Lakes. Signed on 24 February…
(London) Save the Congo deplores Kinshasa’s epidemic of political abductions and disappearances; and calls upon the UK, the French and UN authorities to urgently help secure the release of Eugène Diomi Ndongala, leader of Christian Democrats in Congo. Diomi Ndongala is one of the leading opposition figures in Congo. He was elected in 2011 in the…
More than 50 rabbis including Reform head, Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield, CBE; Liberal Chief Executive, Rabbi Danny Rich; Executive Director of the Movement for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand; Chairman of the European Union for Progressive Judaism, Rabbi Dr. Andrew Goldstein; Chair of the Assembly of Reform Rabbis UK, Rabbi Tony Hammond; and Chair of the Rabbinic Conference of Liberal Judaism, Rabbi Peter Tobias have…