News | Displaced Civilians
| Congolese "brutally deported" from Angola | |
IRIN - October 06, 2009 | |
 | Thousands of Congolese citizens are being deported from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under alarming circumstances, say humanitarian workers. |
| Congo Ready to Settle Displaced People, Says Government Spokesman | |
VOA News - September 10, 2009 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will re-integrate Internally Displaced People (IDP) into society after the United Nations closes camps in the restive Kivu provinces. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced that it will be closing IDP camps this week after a sharp drop of violence in Kivu. |
| 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. |
| Clinton, Congo President Discuss Security in Country's Eastern Kivu Region | |
VOA News - August 12, 2009 | |
 | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Congolese President Joseph Kabila say they are both committed to improving security in Congo's troubled Kivu regions. Secretary Clinton announced $17 million in new U.S. assistance to help victims of sexual violence in Congo. |
| 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. |
| Civilians paying price of efforts to thwart DR Congo armed groups, UN envoy says | |
UN News - July 10, 2009 | |
 | Civilians are bearing the brunt of attempts to dismantle armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the rebels carrying out vicious reprisals and some Government soldiers committing serious human rights abuses, the senior United Nations official to the country told the Security Council today. |
| Eastern DR Congo still faces security, humanitarian challenges - Ban Ki-moon | |
UN News - July 08, 2009 | |
 | The security and humanitarian situation in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to crumble, despite the recent signing of a peace pact between the Government and a key militia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes in a new report. |
| 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). |
| Thousands flee LRA attacks in northeast | |
IRIN - May 29, 2009 | |
 | Fresh attacks by Ugandan rebels in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo have displaced more than 12,000 civilians, according to aid officials. The Lord's Resistance Army burned a dozen houses, stole sheeting provided by aid workers, as well as clothes. They even kidnapped some people," said Aroon Sambia, head of civil society in Dungu territory. |
| 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. |
