The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is worried by the increasing number of deaths and suffering of civilians, including persons displaced by force following brutal attacks in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the UN refugee agency, simultaneous attacks carried out in July by armed groups […]
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The bodies of 53 persons killed during an attack by an armed gang on the Plaine Savo Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Ituri province to the northeast of the DR Congo were buried on Friday, Feb. 4, in a mass grave at the Plaine Savo site. Speaking during the burial ceremony, Emmanuel Ndalo, who […]
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At least 50 persons including women and children were killed on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at a displaced persons camp in Ituri province of eastern DR Congo in an attack attributed to a communal armed group. A source at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) disclosed the attack […]
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Over 70,000 displaced DR Congo nationals who are currently camped at the Roe Displaced Persons Site in Djugu territory of Ituri, eastern DR Congo, are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, HumAngle can report. The IDPs, mainly women, children, and old people have been camped at the site for weeks but are lacking basic needs […]
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The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has announced the opening of a temporary military base in Drodro situated in Ituri province. The base is intended to facilitate the return of persons displaced as a result of attacks by rebels of the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO) […]
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At least 22 persons were killed on Sunday, Nov. 28, in Hivo, near Drodro in Ituri province of DR Congo, during an attack by Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO) rebels. The attack was the fourth on a displaced persons camp since the middle of November this year. “I am shocked, angry and profoundly […]
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The French international humanitarian non-governmental organisation, Medicins Sans frontiers (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has raised the alarm on the “deplorable conditions under which thousands of refugees fleeing insecurity in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are currently living in North and South Kivu. “We heard that peace had returned to Katasomwa in […]
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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Democratic Republic of Congo National Commission for Refugees (CNR) have registered a total of 4,221 from the Central African Republic in Andu, Lower Uele province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to UNHCR officials in DR Congo, the refugees are asking for asylum in […]
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The United Nations Organisation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) envisages the repatriation of 7000 Central African Republic (CAR) refugees who have been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo by end of the year 2020. The refugees are hosted in the South Ubangi province in the West of DR Congo and have been living in […]
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More than 660,000 persons have been internally displaced in Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to armed conflict since January this year. Thousands of others have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. According to the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator David McLachland-Karr, the world body is “very preoccupied by the […]
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