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| Government announces end of Ebola outbreak | |
IRIN - November 20, 2007 | |
 | Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, which claimed the lives of 21 of the 26 people infected in the Kasai Occidental province, is now over. |
| UN inquiry opens into sexual abuse allegations against peacekeeper | |
UN News - November 19, 2007 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced today that an independent investigation has begun into allegations of violent sexual abuse by a soldier serving with the force in the troubled northeast of the country. |
| 232 children released from Mayi Mayi forces in the Kivus by UNICEF and partners | |
UNICEF - November 17, 2007 | |
 | UNICEF and Save the Children, in collaboration with the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) have secured the release of 232 children from Mayi Mayi forces over the last few days. 182 children were separated from the Mayi Mayi Baleine Brigade in Beni, North Kivu last week. Their release follows an intensive media and outreach campaign on the non-recruitment and non-use of children by armed groups. |
| Insecurity prompts political crisis in South Kivu | |
IRIN - November 16, 2007 | |
 | Democratic Republic of Congo's war-ravaged province of South Kivu has been plunged into a political crisis after the governor rejected the provincial assembly's decision to sack him for mismanagement. |
| South Kivu governor sacked over violence | |
BBC News - November 15, 2007 | |
 | The governor of South Kivu region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been impeached for failing to protect the state from violence. |
| IDPs go back to camps as fears of renewed North Kivu violence die down | |
IRIN - November 15, 2007 | |
 | People have been returning to camps for displaced people (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province after fresh fighting near the main town of Goma prompted up to 40,000 to flee. |
| New pact on armed groups in the Kivus hailed | |
IRIN - November 14, 2007 | |
 | Analysts have welcomed the latest in a series of agreements between the governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aimed at resolving the perennial threat to regional stability posed by the armed groups in eastern DRC. |
| Ex-militiaman jailed for life for murder of UN observers | |
IRIN - November 14, 2007 | |
 | A court in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has found a former militiaman guilty of the 2003 murder of two UN military observers and sentenced him to life in prison. |
| Ban Ki-moon calls for greater protection of civilians affected by conflict | |
UN News - November 13, 2007 | |
 | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed that the protection of civilians in armed conflict must remain an absolute priority, noting that even though the number of hostilities around the world has decreased, millions of men, women and children continue to bear the brunt of war. |
| Renewed Fighting in Congo Displaces 25,000 | |
VOA News - November 13, 2007 | |
 | An estimated 25,000 people on Tuesday fled camps for the displaced in Congo's restive North Kivu province, after fighting erupted between forces loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army. For VOA, Noel King has more in this report from Goma. |
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