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UNICEF highlights deteriorating situation of children and women in eastern DRC

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_46983.html

Friday, January 02, 2009

The escalation of conflict and upheaval of people from their homes and shelters have led to further violations of children's and women’s rights in...

Oxfam reaction to UN Security Council resolution authorizing additional troops for Congo

http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2008-11-20/un-resolution-authorizing-additional-troops-congo

Friday, November 21, 2008

Oxfam welcomes the UN Security Council resolution to authorize an additional 3,000 troops and police for the UN peacekeeping force, MONUC....

UN to deploy over 3000 more troops to Congo

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UN_to_deploy_over_3000_more_troops_to_Congo

Friday, November 21, 2008

The United Nations Security Council has announced that it intends to send up to 3,085 more peacekeeping troops to the Democratic Republic of the...

ICC postpones Lubanga's case to January

http://www.afrol.com/articles/31724

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

International criminal court has today extended Congolese war crimes suspect, Thomas Lubanga stay behind bars until 26 January when his trial will...

NGOs call for UN session on the Democratic Republic of Congo

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A group of over forty non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the UN Human Rights Council to convene a special session on the crisis in...

Concern about rising numbers of people displaced by LRA

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Lord’s Resistance Army appears to have resumed its brutal activities in several countries. The number of those who have fled their homes due to...

DRC: Returnees short of food, militia still active

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Thousands of civilians who fled clashes between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forces and militia groups in North Kivu Province are returning...

DRC: Malaria still biggest killer

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Exaucée Makembi, aged three, has been very weak for three days and sleeps in the arms of her mother, Tina Nzongola, who has taken her to a health...

DRC: Hidden killers on the loose

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Friday, April 18, 2008

The full extent of the threat posed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unknown but the deadly weapons...

DRC: Mass graves found in Bas-Congo, rights group claims

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) human rights group has said mass graves with human remains have been found in the southwestern Bas-Congo...

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