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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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.
UN Expert Expresses Extreme Concern For Safety Of Human Rights Defenders In The Eastern Democratic Republic Of Congo
GENEVA (5 March 2025) – As the situation continues to deteriorate in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN expert today called for urgent, practical support for human rights defenders in the ...
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DR Congo crisis: M23 blasts ‘deliberate manipulation aimed at tarnishing our movement’s image’
The AFC/M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo have stressed that their troops operate in strict compliance with international humanitarian law and dismissed allegations that their forces are attacking ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: 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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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 ...
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 ...
‘I booked a 10-day trip to Rwanda. I eventually came home seven months later’
Never has the adage that “time flies when you’re having fun” been flipped on its head quite as completely as during the relentless tedium of the pandemic.