EU-Rwanda: reluctant to freeze MoU

Brussels 25.02.2025 The European Commission stays reluctant to freeze the Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains (MoU). The slow motion reaction of the EU raises brows of human rights defenders in Europe, and worldwide, while observing the devastating events in North Kivu, DRC, where already seven thousand people were killed as a…

DRC: Worst attack on peacekeepers

The attack on the United Nations peacekeepers has left 14 killed and more than 40 wounded  in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, U.N. officials said on Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity. A UN official earlier on Friday had acknowledged that a “large number” of U.N. peacekeepers were killed or wounded in the attack…