Inclusive political participation & Human Rights

15 March 2017 - EU/Head of EU Delegation's interview + MEP Kyenge's statement; CENTRAL AFRICA/DRC-Angola relations; DRC/CENCO mediation to resume tomorrow/CENI/MONUSCO mandate/UN experts abducted; BURUNDI/Mutilated corpses; RWANDA/Kagame's interview

Submitted by Julie Capoulade on Thu, 16/03/2017 - 11:29

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10 March 2017 - EU at the UN/UNSC session on Burundi; DRC/Tshisekedi's burial/opposition in disarray/Lucha actions on electoral process/Mass graves in Kasai/M23; BURUNDI/UNSC: Authorities shut doors to UN engagement + activist barred from meeting +Benomar

Submitted by Julie Capoulade on Mon, 13/03/2017 - 10:25

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8 March 2017 - EU/Council Conclusions: Government reaction; DRC/3 mass graves discovered in Kasai/Nshole-CENCO/Katumbi/Lucha/Civil society to the US/UN inquiry +OHCHR chief statement; BURUNDI/UN report on risk of genocide/NGOs' letter to UNSC/APRODH/FORSC

Submitted by Julie Capoulade on Thu, 09/03/2017 - 14:56

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6 March 2017 - EU/EU Council conclusions on DRC: possible new sanctions + support to CENCO + implementation New Year's Agreement/EP declaration on DRC; DRC/Feliw Tshisekedi + Pierre Lumbi/Tshibala expelled from UDPS/Lucha memo at CENI/Bundu dia Kongo

Submitted by Julie Capoulade on Wed, 08/03/2017 - 12:57

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POLICY BRIEF - EurAc calls on European ministers for new targeted sanctions against Congolese officials

As the European Foreign Affairs Ministers are due to discuss the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the next Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 6 March 2017, the European Network for Central Africa (EurAc) strongly believes that a second round of European Union (EU) targeted sanctions (travel ban and asset freeze) against senior political and security actors, closer to the inner circle of President Joseph Kabila and responsible for human rights abuse as well as for the violent crackdown on dissident voices and for undermining the democratic process, wo

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