East Congo rebels abduct at least 130 hospital patients, UN says
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launching an offensive in east Congo abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals ...
Congo refugees pour into Burundi, conditions dire, says UN
Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with ...
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Rwanda: UK Minister Retracts ADF Comments, Says Rwanda Not Linked to Terror Group
A British government minister who suggested that Rwanda had links with the Ugandan terrorist group ADF has retracted his ...
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Red Cross warns of forgotten humanitarian crisis in DRC
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a rebel offensive has plunged hundreds of thousands of civilians into an acute humanitarian crisis.
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Hundreds of experts, academics, lawyers, religious leaders, writers, artists write to UN chief over persecution of Congolese Tutsi
General United Nations Headquarters 405 East 42nd Street New York, NY, 10017 Dear Mr. Secretary-General: We, writers, artists, journalists, lawyers, researchers, civil society members, Genocide ...
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Optimism remains for countries backing 'progressive' plastics treaty
Countries that favor a plastics treaty with limits on production, along with some product and chemical phase-outs, say they ...
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Almost 80,000 flee DR Congo amid fighting, sexual violence: UNHCR
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), insecurity and horrific sexual violence have left tens of thousands ...
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Hundreds of experts, academics, artists write to UN chief over persecution of Congolese Tutsi
General United Nations Headquarters 405 East 42nd Street New York, NY, 10017 Dear Mr. Secretary-General: We, writers, artists, journalists, lawyers, researchers, civil society members, Genocide ...
DR Congo Premier reports conflict has taken 7,000 lives
Prime Minister Judith Suminwa has reported that ongoing violence in the country's eastern regions has resulted ...
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The Status of Women in the World’s Parliaments
We sat down with Zeina Hilal, IPU’s Manager for Gender and Youth Programmes, on the eve of the 69th UN Commission on the ...
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DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving ...