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Welcome to the APPG

Eric Joyce MP, Chair

WELCOME to the website of The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. This is a political website, but not party political: we are all passionate about the development of a region so vital to the future of Africa. The point of politics isn’t to get elected for its own sake – it’s to drive and influence change for the better. Most people agree that the government is doing a pretty good job on development, but people across the spectrum feel equally strongly about the desperate need for progress in the Great Lakes region. There’s a lot all of us can do to keep pressing for more resources and more development assistance - something that starts with raising awareness of the region as widely as possible in the UK. We try to do that by producing our own reports on the region, by convening working groups like the one below on corporate responsibility, by flagging up latest developments and reports, by lobbying ministers to help effect change.
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House of Lords debate conflict in Eastern Congo
Written by Chris Levick   
Friday, 05 February 2010 15:27

On 3 February 2010, APPG member Lord Chidgey led a Question for Short debate in the House of Lords on conflict in eastern Democractic Republic of Congo. Lord Chidgey opened his remarks noting that "30 June will mark the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence...now is surely the time for the Congolese Government, with the support of regional Governments and the international community, to take the necessary steps to bring the conflict to an end once and for all." Other members participating in the debate were Lord Alton, Lord Skeikh, Baroness Cox, Lord Avebury and Baroness Rawlings. The responding minister, Lord Brett, noted some 47 questions during the debate which I would raise with Foreign Office minister, Baroness Kinnock, ahead of her upcoming visit to DRC. He will write to participants to answer all the questions raised. A full transcript of the debate is below.
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Meeting with Mathilde Muhido
Written by APPG Administrator   
Monday, 07 December 2009 12:35

The APPG met with Congoloese Human Rights Defender, Mathilde Muhido, to discuss sexual  and gender-based violence. Mathilde was in the UK to receive the Human Rights Watch prize for extraordinary activism which was presented at a dinner in London's Natural History Museum. The award is in recognition of her work on sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DRC. Sexual violence remains endemic in eastern Congo and is accompanied by wide spread impunity.

 
Last Updated on Monday, 07 December 2009 13:45
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Parliamentary Mission to Burundi
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 16 December 2009 12:52

Between 8-14 March 2009, the APPG and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office undertook a joint parliamentary strenghtening mission to Burundi. The mission aimed to strenghten relations between the two parliaments and build capacity and understanding on both sides. In addition, the mission focused on key issues in Burundi at the time including political tensions, forthcoming elections and violence against women.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 13:02
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Meeting with Dr. Francis Deng
Written by Chris Levick   
Monday, 07 December 2009 12:19

On 16 November 2009, the APPG hosted a joint event with the APPGs on Genocide Prevention and the United Nations, and in association with the Aegis Trust and United Nations Association UK, with Dr. Francis Deng, UN Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention. 

Last Updated on Monday, 07 December 2009 13:46
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Regional News Feeds

IRIN Great Lakes
  • DRC: Security beefed up for North Kivu IDPs
    NAIROBI Monday, February 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said.
  • BURUNDI: Female ex-combatants picking up the pieces
    BUJUMBURA Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation and knew how to kill in battle.
  • WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge
    DAKAR Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Natural disasters, epidemics and political unrest deal a particularly heavy blow to communities in West and Central Africa, where people live in a “fragile” state daily, UN Children’s Fund said on 4 February.
Burundi
DRC
  • DRC: Security beefed up for North Kivu IDPs
    NAIROBI Monday, February 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said.
  • DRC-CONGO: Of fish wars and displacement
    KINSHASA Tuesday, February 02, 2010 (IRIN) - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say.
  • In Brief: How to end natural resource-fuelled conflict?
    NAIROBI Monday, February 01, 2010 (IRIN) - The international community should draw up a comprehensive strategy to tackle conflicts fuelled by natural resources especially in fragile African states, US campaign group Global Witness says.
Rwanda
Uganda
  • UGANDA: Kapchorwa District farmers incurring big losses
    KAPCHORWA Wednesday, February 03, 2010 (IRIN) - Eastern Uganda's mountainous district of Kapchorwa has huge agricultural potential, but farmers perennially suffer crop losses due to vermin, poor or non-existent storage and drying facilities, and lack of transport, say officials.
  • AFRICA: Rotavirus data must propel immunization - experts
    DAKAR Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized.
  • How To: Track the scent of life
    JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - The best search and rescue workers have stamina, a phenomenal sense of smell, and sharp hearing - they usually also have four legs.
IRIN Africa
  • GUINEA: Medical supplies, humanitarian flight blocked after clashes
    DAKAR, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Tensions following clashes in N'kérékoré, southeastern Guinea, are hampering the movement of some humanitarian workers and supplies, according to the UN.
  • SOUTH AFRICA: Inequality not so black and white
    INEQUALITY NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE , 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The growing gulf between the haves and have-nots in the black population has given South Africa the dubious distinction of becoming one of the world's most unequal societies, according to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an inter-government body.
  • SOMALIA: Bomb survivors tend to IDPs
    NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - A bomb explosion was the last thing Abdiqani Sheikh Omar, 26, expected on his graduation day, after six years of studying medicine at Somalia's Benadir University in the capital, Mogadishu.

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