source: IRIN
3 Oct 2005 - Some 5,000 civilians who fled fighting a week earlier between the army and local armed groups in Kilo, a locality 25 km north of the Bambu Gold Mines, begin returning to their homes.
4 Oct - The army says it has begun deploying at least 2,000 men to the northeastern town of Aba near Sudan to disarm 400 Ugandan LRA rebels who recently entered the country and are holed up in the remote Garamba National park, in Orientale's Haut Uele District.
- The trial begins of 12 Congolese soldiers accused of raping 119 women in December 2003 in Mbandaka, capital of Equateur. The trial follows an investigation led by MONUC's Human Rights section in April 2004, for the crimes said to have taken place 300 km northwest of Mbandaka, near the town of Bongandanga.
7 Oct - Congolese army spokesman Jean-Willy Mutombo says in Kinshasa that the army has forced back into Sudan the 400 Lord's Resistance Army members who in September sought refuge in northeastern Congo. When they crossed from Sudan into Congo's Garamba National park in September Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni threatened to invade DRC to capture them.
10 Oct - Thousands of civilians begin arriving in the town of Walungu, South Kivu, following attacks in which at least 24 civilians are hacked to death. The civilians walk 15 km to safety from their villages of Tchindudi, Mungombe, Kanyola and Rudundu, in a valley 60 km south of the provincial capital, Bukavu.
12 Oct - A humanitarian aid association, Solidarités, launches a drinking water network for 170,000 people in the town of Beni, North Kivu. Beni's population had risen from 72,291 in 1998 to 176,000 in 2002, and the authorities had been unable to supply all residents with drinking water.
12 Oct - The repatriation of Congolese refugees living in camps in western Tanzania begins with 282 leaving for Congo. The returnees are taken to Baraka in the DRC, from where most originate.
20 Oct - Uganda seeks Congolese approval to redeploy troops into eastern Congo to hunt down LRA rebels who entered the country in September. Congo would turn down the request.
25 Oct - A court sentences eight soldiers of the Special Presidential Security Group to life imprisonment for the murder of an official of the air control agency, the Regie des Voies Aeriennes. The crime was committed in August in Kindu, capital of the central province of Maniema, when the soldiers were deployed there to prepare for a visit to the area by President Joseph Kabila.
27 Oct - A court in Bunia, Ituri District, sentences local militia leader John Tinanzabo to 15 years imprisonment for forgery and extorting money from the public. Court officials, with the support of the UN Mission in the country known as MONUC, arrested Tinanzabo in April. Tinanzabo is the secretary-general of the Union des Patriotes Congolais (UPC), a former armed group led by Thomas Lubanga. The UPC is now a political party.
28 Oct - The UN Security Council votes unanimously to extend to 30 September 2006 MONUC's mandate. A resolution on this follows a recommendation by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for an additional bridage of 2,580 personnel for the Congo.
1 Nov 2005 - After a five-year exile, some 300 soldiers of the former Zairian army who had fled to the Republic of Congo, arrive at the Beach Ngobila Port in Kinshasa.
- Some 500 UN Indian and 2,000 Congolese troops destroy five rebel camps during a joint "Cordon and Search" operation in the Virunga National Park. The operation follows the expiry of the deadline of an ultimatum by the commander of the 8th Military Region of the Congolese army, Gen Gabriel Amisi, for all local and foreign rebel groups to leave the park by 27 October.
5 Nov - A UN Security Council delegation arrives in Kinshasa at the start of a 10-day visit to Africa's Great Lakes region. The tour would also take them to Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
9 Nov - MONUC military spokesman Lt-Col Thierry Provendier says there are no signs of LRA fighters still in eastern DRC.
10 Nov - The UN Security Council delegation ends its mission to the Great Lakes with the head of delegation, French UN Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, saying that compared to two years earlier, when he was in the region heading a similar tour, the situation had improved markedly.
12 Nov - The army launches attacks to disarm all Mayi-Mayi groups in Katanga, in an operation due to last one month. Some 60,000 people fleeing the fighting arrive in the village of Dubie in Katanga. They are in addition to another 16,000 people who fled the fighting earlier.
15 Nov - MSF releases a survey in which it says people in the Congo have no more access to health care now that there is relatively little fighting, than they did at the height of the war in 2001.
14 Nov - The National Electoral Commission (CEI) announces that 150,199 people have been caught registering to vote twice.
29 Nov - The lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, passes a law granting amnesty to people who have been blamed for acts of war and political offences between August 2006 and June 2003. The vote is taken without MPs from President Joseph Kabila's party who fear that a group of people behind the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Desire Kabila, would benefit from the new law. Some 248 MPs approve the bill; six abstain. The House comprises 500 MPs, some of whom are former members of rival rebel groups.
6 Dec 2005 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 in Lake Tanganyika rocks the eastern Congolese town of Kalemie. Humanitarian and local authorities put the casualties and material damage at three dead and 10 homes destroyed. A magnitude 6 quake can cause severe damage. The quake was felt as far north as Uganda and as far south as Malawi.
8 Dec - The World Bank announces its approval of a $125-million grant to help the DRC rebuild its agricultural production and enhance food security.
15 Dec - Almost 25 million voters go to the polls in a constitutional referendum that should pave the way for the country's first presidential and parliamentary elections.
27 Dec - The army seizes Mwalika Camp, in North Kivu, from Ugandan rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces. Surviving rebels flee to the Ruwenzori Massif.
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