Elisabeth Rasmusson new Assistant Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP)
The UN Secretary General has appointed Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Elisabeth Rasmusson, to the position of Assistant Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP). Rasmusson has lead NRC for more than five years and will take up her new position in WFP in April 2013. Head of the International Programme Department Toril Brekke will assume the post as Acting Secretary General until Rasmusson's successor has been recruited.
S.African police arrest suspected "mastermind" Congo rebel
Nineteen other suspected Congolese rebels have already been charged with plotting to overthrow the Kinshasa government
Democratic Republic of Congo: local rebels sign historic peace agreement in Masisi
Masisi, 7 February 2013 ? The Jesuit Refugee Service welcomes the peace agreement signed on 5 February 2013 by different armed groups to stop interethnic violence and bring peace in Masisi, in the mineral-rich North Kivu province. The agreement seeks to bring an end to inter-ethnic violence which has led to the death of 310 people since April 2012, the displacement of tens of thousands of others, and the destruction of villages and camps for displaced persons.
U.N. hopes delayed peace deal for Congo can be signed this month
Deal aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo