From bishop at tec-europe.org Tue Dec 2 08:06:05 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:06:05 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] =?iso-8859-1?q?centre_diocesain_de_Bakavu_d=E9trui?= =?iso-8859-1?q?t?= Message-ID: Voici une mauvaise nouvelle?le centre diocésain de Bakavu a été détruit. Grâce à Dieu, on ne déplore aucun mort ou blessure. La nouvelle vient de ENS, en anglais: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_103213_ENG_HTM.htm Pierre (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org From bishop at tec-europe.org Thu Dec 4 07:55:53 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:55:53 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] =?iso-8859-1?q?les_dirigeants_chr=E9tiens_de_l=27A?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ngleterre_sur_le_Congo?= Message-ID: Toujours en anglais: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_103321_ENG_HTM.htm Le texte de la déclaration: We lend our voices to the multitude of others in this country and beyond who are calling for an end to the humanitarian crisis in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We call for an immediate strengthening of peacekeeping forces in the region to protect civilians and provide safe passage for the humanitarian aid, to the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and displaced civilians, at risk of being caught up in fighting between various armed groups as well as being victims of targeted attacks against them. We recognise and thank God for the contribution that churches of all denominations are struggling to make on the ground to address the overwhelming physical and psychological needs of their communities. Without shelter, in the middle of the rainy season, hungry, frightened and sick, many also face daily intimidation and violence. These men, women and children cannot wait any longer for the international community to act. We therefore echo the recommendations by the UN Special Representative that the UN peacekeeping force, MONUC, be strengthened in a matter of weeks not months. We pray for a lasting political solution to this crisis, which addresses the persistent and underlying issues of justice, human rights, the integration of rebel forces into the national army and the management natural resources. We pray for the leadership of former- Nigerian President Obasanjo as he seeks to bring the multitude of interested parties to the table and keep them there to ensure a just and sustainable solution. We recognise the contribution of church leaders in the region, who are trying to think, pray and act together to address the complex regional dimensions of the crisis, and the role of churches in UK, in helping to bring this issue to the attention of Christians and the wider public in Britain. We strongly urge you to keep praying and advocating for your brothers and sisters in Eastern DRC. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy O'Connor Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian, Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain and co-president for England's other Churches Commissioner Betty Matear, Moderator of the Free Churches of England and Wales, joint leader of The Salvation Army in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081204/8efb8281/attachment.html From bishop at tec-europe.org Thu Dec 4 08:08:14 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:08:14 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] demande d'informations Message-ID: <050EE8C8-9326-4A77-B388-40E63C1EF451@tec-europe.org> Chers Frères en Christ, Ça fait un moment que nous n'avons pas eu de vos nouvelles. Si vous pouvez trouver un moment pour nous mettre à jour sur votre situation personnelles, tous les membres du Réseau vous seront reconnaissants. Vous n'avez quà répondre à ce courriel. Car nous pensons à vous et vos fidèles, en prière et en action. Que Dieu vous garde et vous donne la force et les ressources nécessaires. +Pierre Whalon Président (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org From bishop at tec-europe.org Thu Dec 4 15:40:42 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:40:42 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] nouvelles de Kivu Nord Message-ID: Chers amis, Voici un courriel qui m'a été retranmis, de la femme de l'Évêque de New Jersey, Mme Ruth Councell. C'est en anglais, mais il y a quand même des nouvelles fraîches de Mgr Kayeeye, évêque assistant de Nord-Kivu. L'adresse courriel de Mgr Kayeeye est bpkayeeye at hotmail.com. +Pierre Whalon > ` > ``````` > Dear friends, > > On November 8, I received an e-mail message from Phoebe Kayeeye, > wife of Bishop Enoch Kayeeye of the Diocese of North Kivu in the > Democratic Republic of Congo, whom we had gotten to know at the > Lambeth Conference. She informed me of the worsening situation in > North Kivu. At that time the actual fighting was still 100 km away > from them, but refugees from the surrounding war-affected areas have > been fleeing to them. Sometimes 20-30 men, women, and children > arrive per day bringing nothing with them. The Kayeeyes are doing > what they can to get them to established camps. And although there > are food and other supplies available to be purchased, the small > missionary Diocese has no money to buy them. The Kayeeyes have > appealed to us for our prayers and for emergency funding. > > In addition to prayer, two things have been put in motion since then: > > 1. Bishop Kayeeye has set up an account at Barclay's International > Bank in Uganda into which funds can be deposited. From there they > can be transfered to an account in North Kivu and the necessary food > and supplies can be purchased locally. (Apparently if we send funds > directly to a North Kivu bank, the recipient only realizes a quarter > of the value. Hence Barclay's. The N. Kivu bank will accept > transfers from there.) > > 2. Episcopal Relief and Development has been contacted, and Bishop > Kayeeye is in touch with them. We expect they will come through, > though we are not certain when. > > Because each day that goes by is critical to these people, who are > starving, and since there is no word yet from ERD, the Diocese of > New Jersey is willing to bridge the gap by collecting and wiring > money to the fund in Uganda, and has sent an initial contribution of > $1000 from Bishop Romero's discretionary fund. Much more is needed, > however, so I ask that anyone who can, please make a donation, > however small. > > Checks can be made payable to the Diocese of New Jersey with a > notation for "North Kivu Refugees" and sent to > > Diocese of New Jersey > 808 West State Street > Trenton, New Jersey 08618-5326 > Attention: Canon Wanda Greene > > Many Many Thanks, > Ruth > > P.S. We have just heard that Bishop Kayeeye has received the first > donation and has gone directly to the grocery store! He sends his > gratitude and blessing. > > > (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... 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Nom: BISHOP'S WORK.doc Type: application/octet-stream Taille: 38400 octets Desc: non disponible Url: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081204/64a3d622/attachment-0003.obj -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081204/64a3d622/attachment-0005.html From bishop at tec-europe.org Thu Dec 4 17:31:00 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:31:00 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] Le New York Times: Rwanda au Congo Message-ID: <02EBB2E4-D7BC-43D1-926E-85948AD1C2E7@tec-europe.org> Rwanda Stirs Deadly Brew of Troubles in Congo E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SAVE SHARE By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: December 3, 2008 KIGALI, Rwanda ? There is a general rule in Africa, if not across the world: Behind any rebellion with legs is usually a meddling neighbor. And whether the rebellion in eastern Congo explodes into another full- fledged war, and drags a large chunk of central Africa with it, seems likely to depend on the involvement of Rwanda, Congo?s tiny but disproportionately mighty neighbor. Enlarge This Image Jerome Delay/Associated Press A REBELLION IN CONGO Laurent Nkunda, center, a rebel leader in Congo, was an officer in Rwanda?s army. It is widely believed that Rwanda backs Mr. Nkunda; Rwanda denies it. Enlarge This Image Jerome Delay/Associated Press Park rangers loyal to the CNDP make their way through the Virunga National Park near the Ugandan border in eastern Congo. The New York Times Many of the most powerful people in Congo have close ties to Rwanda?s elite in Kigali. Enlarge This Image Jerome Delay/Associated Press A BROTHERHOOD OF NEIGHBORS Rebel soldiers surrounded their leader, Laurent Nkunda, at a rally in eastern Congo last month. Many Rwandan soldiers are said to be members of the rebel force. There is a long and bloody history here, and this time around the evidence seems to be growing that Rwanda is meddling again in Congo?s troubles; at a minimum, the interference is on the part of many Rwandans. As before, Rwanda?s stake in Congo is a complex mix of strategic interest, business opportunity and the real fears of a nation that has heroically rebuilt itself after near obliteration by ethnic hatred. The signs are ever-more obvious, if not yet entirely open. Several demobilized Rwandan soldiers, speaking in hushed tones in Kigali, Rwanda?s tightly controlled capital, described a systematic effort by Rwanda?s government-run demobilization commission to send hundreds if not thousands of fighters to the rebel front lines. Former rebel soldiers in Congo said that they had seen Rwandan officers plucking off the Rwandan flags from the shoulders of their fatigues after they had arrived and that Rwandan officers served as the backbone of the rebel army. Congolese wildlife rangers in the gorilla park on the thickly forested Rwanda-Congo border said countless heavily armed men routinely crossed over from Rwanda into Congo. A Rwandan government administrator said a military hospital in Kigali was treating many Rwandan soldiers who were recently wounded while fighting in Congo, but the administrator said he could be jailed for talking about it. There seems to be a reinvigorated sense of the longstanding brotherhood between the Congolese rebels, who are mostly ethnic Tutsi, and the Tutsi-led government of Rwanda, which has supported these same rebels in the past. The brotherhood is relatively secret for now, just as it was in the late 1990s when Rwanda denied being involved in Congo, only to later admit that it was occupying a vast section of the country. Rwanda?s leaders are vigilant about not endangering their carefully crafted reputation as responsible, development-oriented friends of the West. Senior Rwandan officials do not deny that demobilized Rwandan soldiers are fighting in Congo, but they say the soldiers are doing it on their own, without any government backing. ?They are ordinary citizens, and if their travel documents are in order, they can go ahead and travel,? said Joseph Mutaboba, Rwanda?s special envoy for the Great Lakes region. But according to several demobilized soldiers, Rwandan government officials are involved, providing bus fare for the men to travel to Congo and updating the rebel leadership each month on how many fighters from Rwanda are about to come over. Once they get to the rebel camps, the Rwandan veterans said, they flash their Rwandan Army identification cards and then are assigned to a rebel unit. ?We usually get a promotion,? said one fighter who was recently a corporal in the Rwandan Army and served as a sergeant in the rebel forces last month. He said that he could be severely punished if identified and that Rwandan officials and rebel commanders told the fighters not to say anything about the cooperation. Another cause for suspicion is Rwanda?s past plundering of Congo?s rich trove of minerals, going back to the late 1990s when the Rwandan Army seized control of eastern Congo and pumped hundreds of millions of dollars of smuggled coltan, cassiterite and even diamonds back to Rwanda, according to United Nations documents. Many current high-ranking Rwandan officials, including the minister of finance, the ambassador to China and the deputy director of the central bank, were executives at a holding company that a United Nations panel in 2002 implicated in the illicit mineral trade and called to be sanctioned. The officials say that they are no longer part of that company and that the company did nothing wrong. Nonetheless, eastern Congo?s lucrative mineral business still seems to be heavily influenced by ethnic Rwandan businessmen with close ties to Kigali. Some of the most powerful players today, like Modeste Makabuza Ngoga, who runs a small empire of coffee, tea, transport and mineral companies in eastern Congo, are part of a Tutsi-dominated triangle involving the Rwandan government, the conflict-driven mineral trade and a powerful rebel movement led by a renegade general, Laurent Nkunda, a former officer in Rwanda?s army. Several United Nations reports have accused Mr. Makabuza Ngoga of using strong-arm tactics to smuggle minerals from Congo to Rwanda and one report said that he enjoyed ?close ties? to Rwanda?s president, Paul Kagame. This week a rebel spokesman said that Mr. Makabuza Ngoga was on Mr. Nkunda?s ?College of Honorables,? essentially a rebel advisory board. Mr. Nkunda?s troops recently marched into areas known to be mineral rich ? and areas where ethnic Rwandan businessmen are trying to gain a foothold. Mr. Makabuza Ngoga said in an interview that he was not doing anything illegal. ?I?m just a businessman,? he said. ?I work with them all.? A Tale of Two Africas Rwanda and Congo are polar opposites, a true David-and-Goliath matchup. Crossing the border from Gisenyi, Rwanda, to Goma, Congo, is a journey across two Africas, in the span of about 100 yards. The two-minute walk takes you from one of the smallest, tidiest, most promising countries on the continent, where women in white rubber gloves sweep the streets every morning and government employees are at their desks by 7 a.m., to one of the biggest, messiest and most violent African states, home to a conflict that has killed more than five million people, more than any other since World War II. While Congo is vast, Rwanda is packed. While the Congolese are often playful, known for outlandish dress and great music, Rwandans are reserved. While Congo is naturally rich, Rwanda is perennially poor. Yet Rwanda has emerged as a darling of the aid world, praised for strong, uncorrupt leadership and the strides it has made in fighting AIDS and poverty. The fates of the two countries are inextricably linked. In 1994, Hutu militias in Rwanda killed 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, and then fled into eastern Congo. Rwanda responded by invading Congo in 1997 and 1998, denying it each time initially but later taking responsibility. Those invasions catalyzed years of war that drew in the armies of half a dozen African countries. When the Rwandan military controlled eastern Congo from 1998 to 2002, it established a highly organized military-industrial network to illegally exploit Congo?s riches, according to United Nations documents. A 2002 United Nations report said that top Rwandan military officers worked closely with some of the most notorious smugglers and arms traffickers in the world, including Viktor Bout, a former Soviet arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death who was arrested this year. ?I used to see generals at the airport coming back from Congo with suitcases full of cash,? said a former Rwandan government official who said that if he was identified, he could be killed. Rwanda may have a lot going for it ? a high economic growth rate, low corruption, a Parliament with a majority of seats held by women. But many people here say they do not feel free. When the former government official was interviewed at a Kigali hotel, he abruptly stopped talking whenever the maid walked by. ?You never know,? he whispered, nodding toward the young woman who was smiling behind a plate-glass window smeared with soap suds. ?She could be a lieutenant.? Scarred by a Genocide Rwanda is tiny, tough and intensely patriotic. Like Israel, it is a postgenocidal state, built on an ethos of self-sacrifice. Its national motto is Never Again. One oft-cited threat is the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, also known as the F.D.L.R., a mostly Hutu militia that is based just across the border in the green folds of eastern Congo. The militia is thought to number 5,000 to 10,000 fighters. Some of its leaders are wanted ?genocidaires? who fled Rwanda in 1994 after massacring Tutsi. ?These guys want to come back and finish the job,? said Maj. Jill Rutaremara, a spokesman for Rwanda?s Defense Forces. Mr. Nkunda, the rebel leader, has used the presence of the Hutu militia and the Congo government?s failure to disarm it as a rationale for his continued armed struggle. His forces have routed Congolese government troops in the past two months and pushed the region to the precipice of another regional war. United Nations officials say he has not acted entirely alone, either: they said they observed Rwandan tanks firing from Rwandan territory to support Mr. Nkunda?s troops as they advanced in October. Rwandan officials denied this. Rwandan military officers admit, when pressed, that the Hutu militia has little chance of destabilizing Rwanda. The last time it attacked inside Rwanda was 2001. Some Western diplomats, Congolese officials and Rwandan dissidents now believe that the Rwandan government is simply using the F.D.L.R. as an excuse to prop up Mr. Nkunda and maintain a sphere of influence in the mineral-rich area across the border. ?These are people who want to make business, and they cover it up with politics,? said Faustin Twagiramungu, a former Rwandan prime minister now in exile in Belgium. Congolese officials say that that the Rwandan government is making no efforts to bring the Hutu militiamen back into Rwanda because Rwanda wants to make sure that any Hutu-Tutsi violence plays out in Congo. ?What?s happening in eastern Congo is a Rwandese war is being fought on Congolese soil,? said Kikaya bin Karubi, a member of Congo?s Parliament. Rwandan officials dismiss these claims with a confident chuckle. ?We want to deal with these guys here,? Major Rutaremara said. ?We want them back.? Mr. Mutaboba, the Rwandan government envoy, said the allegations were part of ?an organized campaign to distort the whole problem and give it a regional dimension.? ?It?s not,? he said. ?It?s a Congo problem.? Ethnic and Business Ties But it may be hard drawing a fine line between Congo and Rwanda, despite the lines on a map. There is a long history of ethnic and business ties that seamlessly flow across the colonially imposed borders, especially among the minority Tutsi who dominate business on both sides, yet at the same time, feel threatened and a heightened sense of community as a result. For example, several demobilized Rwandan soldiers in Kigali said the vast majority of volunteers who recently crossed the border to fight with Mr. Nkunda were Tutsi. Some of the soldiers said that they had relatives living in eastern Congo and that it was like a second home to them. According to four soldiers and one employee at the Rwandan demobilization commission, at the end of their monthly meetings, officials at the commission ask for anyone fit and ready to fight to stand up. Sometimes the commission provides bus fare to the border, the soldiers said, and other travel costs. The soldiers usually travel unarmed, picking up weapons on the other side, they said. One demobilized Rwandan lieutenant who just got back from fighting in Congo looked surprised when asked why he went. ?Why? I am Tutsi,? he said. ?One hundred percent Tutsi.? More Articles in World »A version of this article appeared in print on December 4, 2008, on page A6 of the New York edition. -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081204/08355369/attachment-0001.html -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe non texte a été nettoyée... Nom: article-sponsor.gif Type: image/gif Taille: 437 octets Desc: non disponible Url: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081204/08355369/attachment-0002.gif -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe non texte a été nettoyée... 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I apologize if this message come to you twice or many times, this is due to technical failure of the local Cyber Café. The news is in English because of most of our Partners can quickly read and understand. The French version will follow. Best wishes, Bishop Masimango Katanda, Kindu Diocese, DRCongo. -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081205/7dcfe17b/attachment-0001.html -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe non texte a été nettoyée... Nom: Kindu Diocese Newsletter December 08.pdf Type: application/pdf Taille: 496768 octets Desc: non disponible Url: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081205/7dcfe17b/attachment-0001.pdf From kasimamc at yahoo.fr Mon Dec 8 14:58:01 2008 From: kasimamc at yahoo.fr (Corneille Kasima Muno) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:58:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Francophones] Re : demande d'informations In-Reply-To: <050EE8C8-9326-4A77-B388-40E63C1EF451@tec-europe.org> Message-ID: <887555.8769.qm@web28002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mgr Pierre Whalon Président de la Francophonie.   Mr le Président,     Je vous remercie pour ce message et pour toutes les informations que vous ne cessez de nous faire parvenir. Je suis souvent bloqué de répondre régulièrement aux émails suite aux coupures intempestives de l'électricté et quelques fois au manque de connexion à l'internet surtout quand je suis en voyage à l'intérieur pour une ou deux semaines. Toute fois, nous sommes en train de bien vaquer à nos occupations en dépit de la situation  triste de l'insécurité qui menace l'Est de la RDC.   Dans l'union de prière.   Mgr Kasima Muno Corneille Evêque du Diocèse du Katanga, DR CONGO. --- En date de : Jeu 4.12.08, Bishop a écrit : De: Bishop Objet: [Francophones] demande d'informations À: Francophones at justus.anglican.org, "Isingoma Henri" , "Masimango Katanda" , "sylveltre bahati" Date: Jeudi 4 Décembre 2008, 9h08 Chers Frères en Christ, Ça fait un moment que nous n'avons pas eu de vos nouvelles. Si vous pouvez trouver un moment pour nous mettre à jour sur votre situation personnelles, tous les membres du Réseau vous seront reconnaissants. Vous n'avez quà répondre à ce courriel. Car nous pensons à vous et vos fidèles, en prière et en action. Que Dieu vous garde et vous donne la force et les ressources nécessaires. +Pierre Whalon Président (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org _______________________________________________ Francophones mailing list Francophones at justus.anglican.org http://justus.anglican.org/mailman/listinfo/francophones.justus -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... 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URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081213/c7097412/attachment.html From bishop at tec-europe.org Sat Dec 13 09:32:04 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:32:04 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] les rivaux en Nord Kivu (New York Times en anglais) Message-ID: http://tinyurl.com/55y8sx article qui v de pair avec celui du Monde... +Pierre Whalon December 13, 2008 Militias in Congo Tied to Government and Rwanda By LYDIA POLGREEN GOMA, Congo ? A report to the United Nations Security Council by a panel of independent experts found evidence of links between senior officials of the Congolese and Rwandan governments and the armed groups fighting in eastern Congo. The findings portray a complex proxy struggle between the nations, with each using armed forces based in the area to pursue political, financial and security objectives in a region ravaged by conflict. The report, which was based on months of independent research in the region, gives the clearest picture yet of the underpinnings of the fighting in eastern Congo, revealing a sordid network of intertwined interests in Congo and Rwanda that have fueled the continuing chaos. Tiny Rwanda and its vast neighbor to the west, Congo, have long been connected by a shared history of ethnic strife. In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Hutu militias that carried out the killing fled into Congo, then known as Zaire. In 1996, Rwanda backed a rebel force led by Laurent Kabila that ultimately toppled Congo?s longtime president, Mobutu Sese Seko. The initial aim had been to capture the Hutu fighters who had carried out the genocide, but the fighting devolved into a frenzy of plundering of Congo?s minerals, spawning a conflict that drew in half a dozen nations and left as many as five million people dead. Most died of hunger and disease. The report?s findings on the current conflict are likely to strain already tense relations between the countries, providing ammunition for each. Congolese officials have accused Rwanda of supporting Tutsi rebels led by a renegade general from the same ethnic group as much of Rwanda?s establishment. Rwanda has accused Congo?s government of colluding with an armed group led by some of the Hutu militia who carried out the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These are the fighters who fled afterward to Congo and eventually formed a group known by its French abbreviation, the F.D.L.R. It preys on Congolese civilians and enriches itself with the country?s gold, tin and coltan, a mineral used in making the tiny processors in electronic equipment. The independent experts found extensive evidence of high-level communication between the government of Rwanda and the Tutsi rebel group known as the Congress for the Defense of the People, led by the renegade general Laurent Nkunda, based on reviews of satellite phone records. The report said that the calls were ?frequent and long enough to indicate at least extensive sharing of information.? In interviews, several of General Nkunda?s fighters described Rwandan soldiers? helping the rebels inside Congo, according to the report. Rwandan soldiers also helped bring recruits, some of them children, to Congo?s border to fight in General Nkunda?s rebellion, the report said. It also investigated how General Nkunda was paying for his militia, documenting hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for taxes in territory that he controls. The report also named prominent business executives who had backed him financially. Congo?s military, meanwhile, has been collaborating with the Hutu militia that is led by the authors of the Rwandan genocide, according to the report. The weak and undisciplined Congolese Army has frequently relied on help from these fighters in battling General Nkunda?s troops. In exchange for ammunition, the militia fighters have helped in numerous offensives, the report said, citing by name several senior Congolese military officers who had handed over matériel to the Hutu forces. According to satellite phone records, senior military and intelligence figures in Congo have spoken frequently with top Hutu militia leaders. ?It is obvious that Rwandan authorities and Congolese authorities are aware of support provided to rebel groups,? Jason K. Stearns, the coordinator for the five-member panel that produced the report, said Friday at a news conference at the United Nations. ?They haven?t done anything to bring it to an end.? He said the Congolese government said that it had no policy to aid the Hutu militia but that there might be support from individual military commanders. Both governments said that telephone records showing conversations between officials and rebels did not constitute support, he added. Neil MacFarquhar contributed reporting from the United Nations. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company Privacy Policy Search Corrections RSS First Look Help Contact Us Work for Us Site Map Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe 23, avenue George V 75008 Paris France +33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel) +33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax) office at tec-europe.org -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081213/83a0b599/attachment-0001.html -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe non texte a été nettoyée... Nom: logoprinter.gif Type: image/gif Taille: 1810 octets Desc: non disponible Url: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081213/83a0b599/attachment-0001.gif From Bishop at tec-europe.org Fri Dec 26 20:57:47 2008 From: Bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:57:47 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] =?windows-1252?q?meilleurs_v=9Cux?= Message-ID: À tous les membres du Réseau, et tous les fidèles de nos provinces, Une très joyeuse saison de Noël à tous, et pour nos frères et s?urs de Nord Kivu et Guinée-Canakry en particulier, que le Seigneur le Roi de la paix vous apporte réconfort en ce moment difficile, et finalement une paix juste et durable. (Mgr) Pierre Whalon Président Reeseau francophone de la Communion anglicane From Drbossiere2 at aol.com Sat Dec 27 08:49:35 2008 From: Drbossiere2 at aol.com (Drbossiere2 at aol.com) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:49:35 EST Subject: [Francophones] meilleurs voeux,best wishes Message-ID: Dans les pas de notre cher évêque+Pierre à qui je souhaite personnellement mes meilleurs voeux de prompt rétablissement,je me joins à lui pour souhaiter à tout le réseau de continuer à baigner dans la grâce de la Nativité de Notre Seigneur à l'aube d'une année qui sera bonne dans la mesure ou nous la ferons bonne,tant pour nous que pour ceux dont nous avons la charge pastorale,et pour ce monde en crise! Je prie particulièrement pour que la crise que nous vivons au sein de notre Communion se résolve! Votre frère jacques Bossière -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081227/b731f16c/attachment.html From audivia2002 at yahoo.fr Mon Dec 29 17:22:10 2008 From: audivia2002 at yahoo.fr (Bishop Venuste Mutiganda) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Francophones] Je transmets ce message tel qu'il est dans New times, quotidien de Kigali. Message-ID: <111791.60039.qm@web26304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Monday, 29th December 2008 Rwanda-DRC defence ministers to meet Foreign Affairs Minister Rosemary Museminali shares a light moment with her DR Congo counterpart Alexis Thambwe Mwamba during a recent meeting in Kigali. (File Photo). BY JAMES KARUHANGA Senior Rwandan and DRCongo Defence officials are today expected to carry on with talks aimed at routing negative forces out of the vast central African country. The next joint meeting to be held in the border town of Gisenyi, goes to another level since defence ministers of both countries are now involved, as revealed yesterday by Ambassador Joseph Mutaboba, President Paul Kagame?s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region. ?It is the continuation of the renewed excellent relationship between our two countries, which has moved from the level of foreign affairs ministers and special envoys to the new department ? ministers of defence,? ambassador Mutaboba said by telephone last evening. The Minister of Defence, Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi and his Congolese counterpart, Charles Mwando Nsimba, and other senior defence officials will meet to continue from where the Foreign Affairs ministers ended in recent meetings. Mutaboba explained that ?technicians? from both sides have been meeting for a while now, ever since the ?Four plus Four? bilateral framework was set up. The last bilateral meeting held on December 5 in the Congolese border town of Goma, endorsed an operational military strategy to deal with ex-FAR/Interahamwe militia, now grouped under what is known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The ex-FAR and Interahamwe militia, are remnants of those who spearheaded the 1994 Genocide against over one million Tutsis, later freeing into neighbouring DR Congo from where they continue to commit grave crimes - raping, looting, and killing innocent civilians. Seraphin Ngwej, President Joseph Kabila?s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region recenty said that his country was fed up with the presence of ex-FAR/Interahamwe militia on Congolese soil. This was at the end of the sixth meeting of the Joint Monitoring Group, a framework set up to follow up on the implementation of last year?s Nairobi joint communiqué between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. ?Let us be positive, let us be optimistic. The ex-far Interahamwe are not Congolese and they must go back home. The time has come when they must be repatriated whether they like it or not,? he said then. Ngwej said both countries are confident that the joint operational plan against the negative forces would work. In a subsequent event, the December 10 Tripartite Plus Joint Commission (TPJC) session at Prime Holdings, Kigali, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, DR Congo?s Foreign Minister also labelled the FDLR as a cancer bequeathed to them by the international community. The last TPJC?a regional security platform--meeting aimed at reviewing progress in the elimination of the security threat posed to the entire region by illegal armed groups in DR Congo?s volatile eastern region. Foreign ministers from Rwanda, DR Congo, Uganda, and Burundi, in their final communiqué, called for urgent implementation of the Security Council?s resolution 1804 which authorizes travel and financial sanctions on FDLR leaders, urging a quick and full implementation of all its provisions. They also endorsed the December 5 Rwanda-DR Congo communiqué that adopted a joint operational military strategy to deal with the FDLR and a commitment from DR Congo to re-establish diplomatic relations with the other three countries early next year. ?FDLR is a priority on the military plan because it is on our soil that the biggest number of rapes of women and young girls is done. It is on our soil that there are killings like the most recent ones that happened in Kiwanja,? Mwamba told reporters then. The present positive momentum has been acknowledged and Louis Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid recently also admitted there was a positive drive towards peace in the Great Lakes region. ?The momentum is shifting. I am pretty sure about that, I feel that there is a strong good will on both sides to improve relations and to work for complete improvement and for solutions,? Michel said shortly after meeting with President Paul Kagame. Ends   -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081229/edd80dd3/attachment.html From bishop at tec-europe.org Mon Dec 29 18:20:50 2008 From: bishop at tec-europe.org (Bishop) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:20:50 +0100 Subject: [Francophones] =?iso-8859-1?q?=E9lection_aux_Seychelles?= Message-ID: <789885A9-98BB-4D5D-9232-098ECE1A2FD5@tec-europe.org> Chers amis, Une très sainte commémoration des Innocents à tous. Je viens d'apprendre par le biais de Bernard Vignot que le RP James Wong, archediacre du diocèse de l'Île Maurice et un ami personnel, a été élu par le collège électoral du diocèse des Seychelles, hier dans l?après-midi. L?ordination épiscopale aura lieu le 15 mars au Seychelles. Prions pour le Père Wong, sa famille, et son nouveau diocèse. (Mgr) Pierre Whalon -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081229/1f243250/attachment.html From audivia2002 at yahoo.fr Tue Dec 30 16:45:51 2008 From: audivia2002 at yahoo.fr (Bishop Venuste Mutiganda) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:45:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Francophones] Je transmets ce message tel qu'il est dans le quotidien New Times de Kigali Message-ID: <710782.60381.qm@web26307.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Tuesday, 30th December 2008 Rwanda, DRCongo defense ministers discuss joint plan to eliminate negative forces The Minister of Defence Marcel Gatsizi receiving DRC Minister of Defence, Charles Mwando Simba at the border crossing in Gisenyi Yesterday. (Photo/ G. Barya). BY JAMES KARUHANGA RUBAVU - Rwandan and DRCongo Defense ministers Monday met in the border town of Gisenyi in a bid to carry on with talks aimed at planning how to eliminate negative forces from the vast central African country. The meeting also attended by high-level security delegations from both countries, including their two army chiefs, discussed the implementation of the earlier reported joint military operational plan. ?We discussed and realized we have to comply with the Nairobi communiqué?s resolutions and what our Heads of State wish to be implemented fast,? Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi, Rwanda?s defense minister said shortly after the meeting at Lake Kivu Serena Hotel. ?Now, as defense ministers, we have instructed our army chiefs to also do their job,? he said, stressing that in the earlier Nairobi Communiqué, and the recent December 4 and 5 bilateral Foreign Affairs ministers? meeting, the issue of routing out negative forces, especially ex-Far interahamwe, had been high on the agenda. The last bilateral meeting held on December 5 in the Congolese border town of Goma, endorsed an operational military strategy to deal with ex-FAR/Interahamwe militia, now grouped under what is known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The ex-FAR and Interahamwe militia, are remnants of those who spearheaded the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis  that claimed the lives of over one million. They later fled to neighboring DR Congo from where they continue to commit grave crimes - raping, looting, and killing innocent civilians. Gen. Gatsinzi underlined that the plan has been set up, seen and approved by the two countries? Heads of State. ?They (gave us, ministers of defense, instructions to also look at it and identify gaps and seek how it can be implemented as soon as possible.? Asked whether there would be any other such meetings as the just concluded one, Gatsinzi insisted that this was just the beginning. ?We shall meet more often to see how things are being implemented, in a positive sense,? he said, reiterating that ?the highest levels of will? to find a lasting solution to the conflict in eastern DR Congo was there. Gen.Gatsinzi?s counterpart, Charles Mwando Nsimba, was accompanied by the army chief of staff, Gen. Didier Etumba, police Chief John Numbi and several others. Responding to reporters questions later, Nsimba stressed that establishing an environment for both countries? reconstruction was ?now? of paramount importance. ?This is a determination that we have. The countries must play a role in the pacification of the east,? he said, underlining that the meeting was a continuation of the already established positive platform for dialogue. Even though the mood before and after the closed discussions seemed, in every respect entirely camaraderie-like, the ministers, could not let slip anything about details of the operational plans. Ends -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pièce jointe HTML a été nettoyée... URL: http://justus.anglican.org/pipermail/francophones.justus/attachments/20081230/7e648495/attachment.html