#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
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
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 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…
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.
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…
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…