Walikal
| Territoire de Waluellen Walikal
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| province | North Kivu |
| Seat | Walikal |
| Residents | 9903 (2010) |
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-NK |
Coordinates: 1 ° 26 ' S , 28 ° 4' E
Walikal is a territory (administrative district, area of responsibility of an administrative unit ) in North Kivu , one of the 10 or 25 (from 2011) provinces in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The main town of the area is also called Walikal .
Security situation
The headquarters of the Forces Démocratiques de la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) has been located in the area since 2003 (currently October 2010).
Rape, murder and looting by regular troops in the country and Rwandan and Congolese militias took place in Walikal in 2010.
Since the summer of 2011, the government troops have been barracked in the area to enable reorganization. This aggravated the situation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Simone Schlingwein: The war of the rebels is not over. In: the daily newspaper . October 13, 2010, accessed October 14, 2010 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 26, 2010
- ^ UN: Thousands of rapes in the Congo. In: ORF . October 15, 2010, accessed October 16, 2010 .
- ↑ Dominic Johnson : Hutu militias devastate villages. In: the daily newspaper . January 5, 2012, accessed January 10, 2012 .
