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Amb. Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala presides over the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN Security Council condemns ‘any and all outside support’ to M23 armed group in eastern DR Congo

19 October 2012
The United Nations Security Council today reiterated its condemnation of and demand for an end to all external support being provided to armed groups – in particular the group known as the March 23 Movement (M23) – which have been destabilizing the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over recent months.
MONUSCO peacekeepers on patrol.
UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

Six UN peacekeepers and interpreter wounded in ambush in eastern DR Congo

17 October 2012
Six United Nations peacekeepers and a local interpreter were wounded in a “cowardly” overnight ambush in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Mission in the African nation reported today.
Displaced people take shelter in a school in Bunagana town, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
IRIN/Siegfried Modola

Ban calls for ‘concerted’ efforts to bring peace to eastern DR Congo

9 October 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he remained deeply concerned over the security and humanitarian situations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and called for “continued and sustained high-level dialogue” to bring peace to the region.
A group of Congolese refugees heads toward Dongo transit centre after crossing the Oubangui River to Equateur province from Republic of Congo.
UNHCR/S. Kpandji

UN agency helps more than 25,000 refugees return to their homes in DR Congo

2 October 2012
More than 25,000 Congolese refugees have returned to their homes in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under a voluntary repatriation programme that was launched in May by the United Nations refugee agency.