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UN mission in DR of Congo finds bodies after report of gunmen killing villagers

12 April 2004
A United Nations team investigating a report that rampaging gunmen killed at least 25 people during three days of murder, rape and arson last month in a heavily forested district in the eastern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has found bodies in shallow graves and are sending more investigators this week.

Accidental deaths of six UN peacekeepers serving in DR of Congo mourned

7 April 2004
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to the memory of six United Nations peacekeepers who drowned while on routine patrol in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday.

UN Mission in DR of Congo pays tribute to latest two of 27 fallen soldiers

1 April 2004
The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has paid tribute to two soldiers whose deaths in March brought the toll for peacekeepers in the country to 27.
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Security sector reform in DR of Congo vitally important - UN peacekeeping chief

31 March 2004
Security sector reform is of high priority in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as prisoners escape from the jail in Bunia and Ituri in the east, but the Transitional Government coordinated well in defeating an incursion into Kinshasa last weekend, the United Nations chief of peacekeeping said today.

Annan disquieted by rising factionalism in DR of Congo Government

30 March 2004
In a report chronicling regression in the post-conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the increasing factionalism in the Transitional Government is disquieting, the continuing reports of militia atrocities against civilians causes concern and the slowdown in normalizing relations with the country's neighbours is regrettable.

UN mission stepping up efforts to stem illegal arms flows to DR of Congo

17 March 2004
Responding to the Security Council's recent condemnation of illegal arms flows to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN mission there today said it will concentrate on helping to control the black market traffic in weapons bound for the Central African country.

Security Council sets up committee to monitor arms embargo against DR of Congo

12 March 2004
The Security Council today established a committee to monitor an eight-month-old arms embargo against all armed groups operating in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a bid to strengthen the weapons ban, also authorizing the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country to seize or collect and to dispose of arms or related material found in violation of the measure.

UN forces return fire from militiamen in DR Congo

26 February 2004
United Nations peacekeeping forces investigating allegations that militia members were assembling in a village in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with a view to attacking a nearby town came under fire from militiamen in an ambush, the UN mission, MONUC, said today.

Militias have killed civilians in northern DR of Congo, UN mission says

25 February 2004
Rival factions of the Mayi-Mayi militia have killed at least 30 civilians in several villages and forced others to flee their homes in Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission (MONUC) there said today.

DR Congo: UN troops arrest 13 militia members in bid to quell instability

19 February 2004
The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has arrested members of a militia suspected of planning an attack near a market in the eastern province of Ituri and involved in an exchange of shots that wounded an investigating UN military officer.