Crisis in the Congo!

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This week the elections in the USA were held and Barack Obama was elected as the new President. We all need to hold this man up in prayer that his heart will be directed and lead by God.

While we have been very focused on events here in the U.S. there is obviously much happening around the world that needs our prayers! One of these crises is the pending war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Over the last 2 decades there has been much civil unrest and overturning of governments in this nation.

The Congo is surrounded by nine other African nations and has a great deal of wealth hidden in the natural resources of the land. This blessing has become a curse as power hungry leaders, governments and individuals fight to gain control of them. "The love of money..." I Tim 6:10 (amp.) tell us "is a root of all evils". We see in this nation, as with many nations around the world, these evils manifest themselves in the form of starvation, desires, torture, rape and other degrading and horrific acts against God's creation.

This week, allow the Spirit to lead you in groanings and utterances to lift up a people that do not have a voice of their own with which to cry out. This burden is echoed by a good and long time friend of Michal Ann and myself, Joel Staab. He is currently serving with Iris Ministries in Mozambique and has traveled to the Congo serval times. He shared the following in his most recent update:

...Getting back to the Congo, just in this last week some extremely terrible things have broken out there, right near the same area where I have spent time.  I have spotty information, some reliable, some from those there, but we are talking about a human tragedy once more on a massive scale.  Violence, war, murder, refugees, major outbreaks of disease and starvation, it doesn’t get any worse, and I mean that, though they have known such times for years now.  It is too early to say what all will happen, if we, Iris, can do anything, as we have a lot of churches there, and it is again, extremely dangerous, borders closed, certain people groups and types targets for murder and worse, like torture, . . . but I feel this need to seek the Lord, praying right now not just for those there, the whole situation, but whether or not I am to go into the Congo for the purposes of God’s Kingdom.  What I am asking now, is simply for prayer, for wisdom, guidance, if I am to go, with who, there are a couple of us praying about it, and maybe as important as if we do . . . when!  Soon, later, a year from now . . . my heart is simply aching, stirred and it won’t let go of me.  So again, please pray, for those there most of all, many, many Christians are in the midst of it...

This week I want to make people aware of the reports from various news agencies around the world as they report on this impending explosion of civil war in the Congo. Join with me in Crisis Intercession by engaging in Spirit-led and Spirit-empowered prayer, practicing “praying in the spirit.” If you are unsure how to "pray in the Spirit" please review our last PrayerStorm email it will help you.

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Crisis in the Congo...
Various News Sources Report!

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Below I have simply included a number of news reports from various sources on the events in the Congo. I trust these will help to give you a little bit of information about what is going on in the natural - then you can springboard into revelation from the Spirit by which to fuel your intercession.

Crisis in the Congo

The Irish Times: Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a vast country - nearly the size of Europe - in the heart of Africa. It has borders with nine neighboring states, all of which have been drawn into its conflicts, when an estimated 5.5 million people died between 1998 and 2004.

There is now a real danger that these regional wars will resume following the collapse of an agreement reached earlier this year and the renewed outbreak of fighting around the eastern town of Goma which the large United Nations force has been unable to prevent. A quarter of a million people have been displaced from their homes in recent weeks.

Many of these conflicts are bound up with control over the country's equally vast mineral wealth, including coal, iron ore, bauxite, diamonds, gold and timber. They are directly involved, too, with the fallout from the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda when 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. Many of those responsible fled to the eastern Congolese province of Kivu, where their presence has been contested by Gen Laurent Nkunda, a regional Tutsi leader whose military power is at the centre of these latest events. He is suspected of collusion with Rwanda's Tutsi leadership, but has also attracted support from groups disaffected with the Congolese president Joseph Kabila who won the national elections two years ago.

Gen Nkunda is now demanding direct negotiations with Mr Kabila, amid intense diplomatic activity on the issue. The British and French foreign ministers, who visited the region at the weekend, are putting pressure on the African Union to mediate the conflict and want to strengthen the existing 17,000 UN force in Congo. So far they are not willing to recommend supplementing it with a European Union force with a temporary mandate to restore security which would allow people return to their homes. That may well become necessary if conditions deteriorate further, possibly leading to another regional conflict and a recurrence of mass inter-communal violence.

Measured by the numbers of casualties and the blatant self-interest of contending parties and interests the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the worst example of a failed state in recent history. It is also the least well reported internationally, and has suffered from prolonged political neglect from world power centres. Neither internationally sponsored elections nor UN interventions have succeeded in resolving these problems, which must now be tackled once again.

© 2008 The Irish Times

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UN caught in new DR Congo clashes

Published: BBC Tuesday Nov 4, 2008

Peacekeepers have been caught up in renewed clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after days of relative calm, the United Nations says.

Fighting broke out between rebel forces and two pro-government militias, said a UN spokeswoman in the main town, Goma. Rebel leader Gen Laurent Nkunda last week declared a ceasefire, as his forces approached Goma.

The BBC's Peter Greste in the town says the clashes are worrying but do not necessarily mean the ceasefire is over. Goma is surrounded by rebel forces, which have routed government forces. Some 250,000 people have fled their homes and aid agencies are struggling to help them.

Some fled the countryside for Goma but others have since returned, as there is not enough food or shelter for them in the town. >>Click_Here<< for the rest of this article.

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The Times of South Africa Editoral
Published: Nov 02, 2008

Africa’s ugliest resource war has flared again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, putting more than a million people on the road to nowhere as they flee the latest violent aftershocks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Old ethnic enmities are burning in renewed conflict. Hunger for the profits promised by the country’s massive mineral wealth is fanning the flames. The television images are horribly familiar, as if the same half-starved women are running to save their children again, as they did up to the end of the last war there in 2003. They deserve peace and hope, not fear and death.

Peace in the DRC has been one of the sterling achievements of South African foreign policy — a famous step towards the goal of African solutions to African problems. But enforcing the terms of the deal that gave the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa a moderately successful election two years ago is beyond this country and, probably, beyond this continent. The tragedy unfolding again in the Congo demands the full attention of the world. The global financial crisis can be no excuse to ignore what is happening there. The African Union must speak up loudly and clearly in support of international action, and the United Nations must listen and act.

President Joseph Kabila has a democratic mandate. The only way to lift Africa out of the morass is to honour such mandates and let the world help us to enforce them.

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UN rejects DR Congo accusations

RTE (XXX)
Published: Tuesday Nov 04, 2008

UN officials have vehemently rejected suggestions that UN peacekeepers have failed to protect civilians in eastern DR Congo, where recent fighting is causing a humanitarian catastrophe. Aid agencies say tens of thousands of civilians are roaming the countryside unprotected, in need of shelter, food, water and medical care. Some of the displaced have accused UN peacekeepers of failing to fulfil a mandate to protect them from violence and looting, not just by armed rebel groups but also by government forces.

The head of UN peacekeeping in the region, Alain Le Roy, dismissed suggestions that UN peacekeepers in DR Congo, known by their French acronym MONUC, had failed to carry out their duty. 'We are doing our utmost,' he told reporters He said MONUC, which has some 17,000 troops across Congo, was doing everything possible to fulfill its mandate with limited manpower over eastern DR Congo, a region one and a half times the size of France.

Last week's rebel offensive displaced 100,000 civilians, including 60,000 children, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. 'Around 250,000 people are now believed to have been displaced in the last two months, bringing the total number of internally displaced to around 1m, 20% of the entire Nord-Kivu population.

Since the mid-1990s, the east of the huge central African nation, rich in natural resources and bordering nine countries, has been plagued with conflicts, some involving neighbouring nations. In a fresh diplomatic move aimed at ending the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is prepared to travel to the region. The first UN-protected relief supplies for a week arrived in the area yesterday. Mr Ban said he was trying to arrange meetings with both the Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kigame.

Pray that His Kingdom come and His will be done in the Congo as it is in heaven!

James W. Goll

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