Sir Andrew Stunell MP takes the ‘Get Cross – Stop the Rape’ in support of #48AnHour
Sir Andrew Stunell MP takes the ‘Get Cross – Stop the Rape’ in support of #48AnHour
#48AnHour In Picture
Lord Alton of Liverpool takes the ‘Get Cross – Stop the Rape’ in support of Save the Congo’s #48AnHour campaign.
Every Minute One Woman is Rape in Congo
48 Women are Raped in Congo Every Hour
A Letter on Congo to the British Prime Minister – June 2013
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…
G8 must act on Congo human rights abuse – Feb 2013
As part of Save the Congo’s campaign: ‘The G8 Time to Save the Congo‘, Vava Tampa with 16 parliamentarians, including the former Chair of the Conservative party, Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville CH; former UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG; the founding Chair of the APPG on the Great Lakes,Baroness King…
We must act on Congo war criminals – May 2012
Save the Congo’s founder, Vava Tampa, with the Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism, Rabbi Danny Rich; Rwandan genocide survivor, Rene C. Mugenzi; National Black Students’ Officer for the National Union of Students (NUS), Kanja Sessay, Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, Peter Herbet, OBE; the real life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina; and 10 British parliamentarians – including…
Stand for Peace Demo │21st Nov│Marylebone St → Rwandan Embassy → Downing Street
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…
33 MPs call on William Hague to fully examine Britain’s military and financial support to Rwanda because of its support to warlords in Congo
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…
26 MPs call on the Government revoke all direct budget support to any government involved in the wars engulfing the Congo
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:…
Britain re-suspends aid money to the Kagame regime – Dec 2012
In December 2012, after months of lobbying and campaigning, the Secretary of State for International Development,Justine Greening stops release of £21m in budget support to Kagame regime over its role in supporting warlords and militia groups destabilizing Congo, one of friends in the House of Commons, the Honourable Mike Hancock, MP, CBE, tabled a parliamentary motion, Early…
President Obama’s Congo Moment – University of Cape Town – 30 June 2013
In June 2013, during his Africa Tour, President Obama delivered a speech in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. In his speech, he mentioned the Congo a few times to remind South Africans the importance of bringing about peace in Congo. This should motivate all justice seekers for peace in the Congo to…
President Barack Obama Answers Question On the Congo Wars in Tanzania
In July 2013, during his Africa Tour, President Obama was asked in Tanzania by a Congolese journalist, Sahle Mwanamilongo, about US’ role in the international community and on the UN Security Council to pressure Congo’s neighbors, Rwanda and Uganda, to stop destabilizing the Congo.
UK Prime Minister Questioned on Rwanda’s Role & War Crime in Congo
In July 2013, after the publication of UN Group of Experts report on Congo, one of our friends in the House of Commons, the Hourable Pauline Latham, MP, OBE, raised the role of Kigali’s continued support to warlords and militia groups tyrranising Congo’s eastern region in the House of Commons during PMQs.
Vava Tampa debates Phil Clark on Rwanda’s role in Congo
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.
Parliamentary debate on M23 takeover of Goma
In November 2013, the Shadow Secretary for International raised the issue of insecurity, the M23 takeover of Goma and Kigali’s support to the M23 in the House of Commons. See below for the view:
Vava Tampa write for CNN on why we should keep a focus on Congo after the M23
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…
Parliamentarians call for an end to FDLR reign in Congo
After the military defeat of the M23 by the FARDC supported by MONUSCO and FIB, Save the Congo launched a call for actions to be taken agains tthe FDLR, the Hutu militia group whose leadership took part in the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwandan in 1994. To help mobilise support in parliament, one of…
Tackling the FDLR
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…
MONUSCO FIB
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…
Framework of Hope
(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…