152 results found for: refugees
| UN: LRA Attacks in Eastern Congo Displace Thousands | |
VOA News - August 28, 2009 | |
 | The UN refugee agency reports at least 125,000 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been forced to flee from villages attacked by the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, in the last three weeks. This brings the number of people displaced in Haute Uele district of Orientale Province by the LRA since September to more than one-half million. |
| Ban Ki-moon welcomes summit between leaders of DR Congo and Rwanda | |
UN News - August 7, 2009 | |
 | Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed yesterday’s summit between the leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, the first official bilateral meeting since the neighbouring African nations broke off official ties more than one decade ago. |
| At least 35,000 Congolese civilians displaced by fighting in South Kivu province | |
UNHCR - July 24, 2009 | |
 | An outbreak of fighting in the eastern Congolese province of South Kivu has forced more than 35,000 civilians to flee their homes in the past two weeks. The latest population movement brings the total number of civilians to have been displaced in South Kivu since January as a result of clashes between government forces and Rwandan rebels, and reprisal attacks on civilians, to about 536,000 people. |
| UN emergency fund gives $7 million to aid eastern DR Congo's displaced | |
UN News - July 17, 2009 | |
 | United Nations agencies and their partners will be able to provide urgent humanitarian relief to some 250,000 people in the strife-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) thanks to $7 million in emergency funding. |
| UN seeks $38 million to help civilians in eastern DR Congo | |
UN News - June 17, 2009 | |
 | United Nations agencies and their partners today launched an appeal for $38 million to help nearly 1 million people in need of assistance amid armed attacks and military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
| Top UN humanitarian official condemns new 'terror and upheaval' | |
UN News - April 30, 2009 | |
 | The top United Nations humanitarian official today condemned a resurgence of violence against civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid a series of offensives against a Rwandan militia group. |
| New Report to Detail Failed Military Operation Against Hutu Rebels | |
VOA News - April 29, 2009 | |
 | A new report expected to be released Wednesday describes the joint military operation of Congo and Rwanda to flush out Rwandan Hutu rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a failure. The report says the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels are still attacking ordinary Congolese despite the offensive against them. |
| Surrenders of Rwandan rebels in eastern DR Congo ramp up, UN says | |
UN News - April 27, 2009 | |
 | The number of Rwandans laying down their arms and leaving militias that terrorize civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has multiplied four-fold on a monthly basis compared to last year, the United Nations reported today. |
| Return of Hutu Militias Sparks 100,000 New Displacements in Eastern Congo | |
VOA News - April 27, 2009 | |
 | A resumption of fighting in lands in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo previously claimed by rebel Hutu militias has added more than 100,000 newly displaced people to Congo's swollen itinerant rolls in the past two months. |
| North-Kivu: over 100,000 uprooted in latest wave of rebel attacks, says UN | |
UN News - April 22, 2009 | |
| Rebel attacks in recent weeks have forced more than 100,000 people from their homes in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). |
