Humanitarian organisations warned of possible massacres of ethnic Hema civilians during the night after the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and ethnic Ngiti and Lendu militias on Thursday stormed Bunia in North Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), forcing the Union des patriotes congolais (UPC) rebel movement that had controlled the city to flee.
13 March 2003
"The Revd Basimaki Byabasaija, the assistant to the diocesan secretary and the coordinator of the HIV/AIDS network in the Diocese of Boga (Congo) was killed yesterday between Boga and Burasi by wangiti belligerents while trying to cross and get ready to travel to Hong Kong to attend the Anglican Consultative Council-12 meeting in Hong Kong.
06 September 2002
New outbreaks of fighting in eastern DR Congo has left at least 100 dead and caused more than 3,500 to flee over the Ugandan border and there are fears for the safety of the Christian community including the country's Anglican Archbishop.
24 January 2001
The latest rebel conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo broke out in August 1998. Today more than half the country is under the control of various rebel groups, with 1.1 million people displaced by the fighting.
19 January 2000
On October 13, 1998, about 11:00 a.m. two officers from Brigade 40 came to the Headquarters of the Diocese, located at 1307 Chaussee de Kasenga/Kampemba. They arrived in a Jeep with their bodyguards.
22 December 1998
In October 1996, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees, displaced by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, were forced to move from UNHCR refugee camps in Zaire. Camouflaged in their number were the feared Interahamwe, 70,000 Hutu militia who led the killings of moderate Hutus and 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda two years before. As the refugees and Interahamwe moved towards Rwanda the Interahamwe killed Zairean villagers and kidnapped children to provide human shields.
17 January 1997
Church Mission Society mission partners working in north-eastern Zaïre are determined to stay as long as possible, despite personal risk and growing catastrophe in the region as three warring factions battle for control.
14 November 1996