As part of Save the Congo campaign: “The G8 Time to Save the Congo“, our founder, Vava Tampa, together with Friends of the Congo‘s Spokesperson, Kambale Musavuli; President of the National Union of Student, Liam Burns; former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes; Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Nathalie Bennett; Filmmaker and director of Blood in the…
In Novermber 2008, five months after Save the Congo was founded, Laurent Nkunda and his CNDP launched a blood attempt to take over Goma, leaving scenes of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kiwanja and Rutshuru. Save the Congo organised a demonstration (our first ever public action) which went from the Rwandan Embassy to…
In June 2012, after report begun circulating that the newly formed M23 militia group in Congo was being fueled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda, one of our friends in the House of Commons, the Honourable Mike Hacock, MP, CBE, tabled a parliamentary motion, Early Day Motion 149: Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, signed by…
In October 2012, after the publication of a leaked report by the UN Group of Experts report on Congo which said that Rwanda’s Defense Chief, Gen. James Kabarebe, is effectively commanding a militia gang, M23, one of our friends in the House of Commons, the Honourable Mike Hancock, MP, CBE, tabled a parliamentary motion, Early Day Motion 597:…
In October 2013, as the attempt to flush out Kigali’s M23 out of Congo by MONUSCO, FIB and FARDC, Vava Tampa debated Dr. Phil Clark on the role of Kigali in supporting militia groups in Congo.
After the defeat of the M23, our founder, Vava Tampa, wrote an opinion piece for CNN International explaining that behind the headlines that the M23 has announced it will disarm, all is still far from well and went to outline 8 reasons related to insecurity, impunity and humanitarian crisis which he feels that the world should keep…
(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…
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…