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Mareeg Media
April 5, 2018
NEW YORK, United States of America, April 5, 2018-Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should immediately release Eliezer Ntambwe, ... Ntambwe was detained after the governor of DRC's central Kasai Oriental province, Ngoyi Kasanji, accused him of defamation and extortion relating to anÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 5, 2018
A recent wave of targeted attacks has left a trail of death, destruction, and mass displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern province of Ituri. The roots of the violence are framed in media reports as ethnic, but analysts and local observers say powerful political and commercial interestsÃâà...
Citizen
April 4, 2018
... in North Kivu province. “His kidnappers have contacted the St. Paul of Karambi parish to demand US$500,000 (407,000 euros) in ransom for his release,” the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) said, demanding he be set free immediately. North and South Kivu provinces are the theatre ofÃâà...
Sky News
April 1, 2018
The two-truck convoy we are in is entering one of the areas in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo identified as a 'hotspot'. Village after village in parts of Ituri province appear to have been attacked. Many of the homes have been set alight and are destroyed through fire. Some are smashedÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 31, 2018
In Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu Provinces, there is continuing deterioration of the security and humanitarian situation, accompanied by many types of violence (killings, destruction of homes, abductions, and looting). This situation exacerbates the already fragile situation in these areas, which have seenÃâà...
Sky News
March 31, 2018
But Rochelle's extreme youth didn't spare her from the anger and rage of the militia who stormed her village in Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month. Her face has a deep scar stretching across it, just missing her left eye and there is a wound on the top of her skull where her attackerÃâà...
BBC News
March 26, 2018
BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane writes about the anger and anguish of villagers caught up in the latest spiral of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A dark line ran across the small, beautiful face. On either side were stitch marks that ran up under the white bandage covering the top of her head.
Reliefweb
March 16, 2018
Kalemie – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in the south-eastern Congolese city of Kalemie, continues the urgent relocation of internally displaced families from congested and unhealthy urban collective centres to a displacement site recently established in nearby Kalunga. The majority of the collectiveÃâà...
UN News
March 16, 2018
UN refugee agency scaling up support as 'horrific' violence in DR Congo drives thousands into Uganda ... mostly terrified women and children, have crossed into Uganda from crisis-gripped eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.
New York Times
March 8, 2018
... in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo were being burned amid a renewal of communal fighting. People fleeing the violence told aid workers of arson attacks. The clashes between the Hema and Lendu communities — on the eastern side of the Ituri province, bordering Uganda — startedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 6, 2018
At least 79 people have been killed over the weekend when fighting broke out between Hema and Lendu tribes in the northern Ituri province. 6 Mar 2018 ... Aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have been displaced by ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 79 people wereÃâà...
BBC News
March 2, 2018
More than 33 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities say. Unrest broke out between the Hema and Lendu communities in the north-eastern province of Ituri. A UN-sponsored broadcaster said the assailants were eventually forced backÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 28, 2018
In December, violence between communities flared up in Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It grew in intensity in February and fighting broke out around the area of Djugu. Houses were burnt, people were killed and tens of thousands fled their homes in search of safety.
africanews
February 20, 2018
Kidnappings, including of foreign and Congolese personnel of humanitarian organisations, are frequent in the territories of Masisi, Lubero, Rutshuru and Walikale in the province of North Kivu. Eastern DR Congo is torn apart by more than 20 years of armed conflict, fueled by ethnic and land disputes,Ãâà...
UNHCR
February 20, 2018
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today that a humanitarian disaster of extraordinary proportions was about to hit the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the province of Tanganyika plunges further into violence, triggering spiraling displacement and human rightsÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Ethnic strife in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed dozens of lives in recent days, according to officials. Local civil society leader Jean Bosco Lalu told Reuters news agency on Tuesday that at least 40 people had been killed in ethnic violence between Hema herders and LenduÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
Democratic Republic of Congo's attorney general said he has opened an investigation into reports that the opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian ... “All this time he was leading the province, he was committing false acts, (using) false documents,” said Numbi, referring to Katumbi's tenure as governorÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Thursday, March 29, 2018 — Recent violence in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has displaced over 300,000 people from their homes and has echoes of the conflict that affected the region in the early 2000s. Houses have been burned, around 200 people have been killed and manyÃâà...
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