Source: IRIN For the many thousands of people displaced by conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Kivu regions who have returned to their villages, home has its many hardships.
Date: 16 Dec 2008
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 With fighting raging on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and seemingly no end in sight for the 250,000 Congolese people forced from their homes because of the...
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
We remain extremely concerned for the safety of the displaced Congolese population in Kibati as the civilian character of these two UNHCR-run camps north of Goma is continually violated. In another incident...
Date: 26 Nov 2008
Source: UN News Service
Date: 25 Nov 2008
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
Date: 10 Nov 2008
Source: UN Children's Fund
Date: 08 Nov 2008
Source: UN Children's Fund
Source: Reuters GOMA, Congo, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Congolese Tutsi rebels and government troops exchanged mortar and small arms fire in a clash on Friday in east Congo, a few kilometres (miles) from a camp filled with ...
In a race against time, UNHCR and other agencies, including the World Food Programme, distribute or prepare to distribute urgent aid to tens of thousands of displaced Congolese in North Kivu.
International Save the Children Alliance Agency Issues US$8 Million Fundraising Appeal to Provide Immediate Aid Relief and Protection of Children WESTPORT, Conn.
Source: UNHCR UNHCR has confirmed that several sites it runs for internally displaced Congolese in North Kivu province have been destroyed and emptied of inhabitants.
Description of life in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Yesterday afternoon I was at the camp with Diddy, checking on our Rangers and their families. The water situation is now under control, and we have not had another outbreak of cholera since Friday.
UNHCR has confirmed that several sites it runs for internally displaced Congolese in North Kivu province have been destroyed and emptied of inhabitants.
As we feared, three internal displacement sites run by UNHCR near the town of Rutshuru in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - Dumez, Nyongera and Kasasa - have been destroyed and emptied....
Tens of thousands have fled their homes around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as fighting between rebels and government forces intensifies. The current wave of violence highlights the complex ...
As fighting between government troops and the armed opposition in North Kivu province intensifies, tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes are in urgent need of temporary shelter, water, food and medical supplies.
Date: 28 Oct 2008
Source: World Food Programme
Date: 28 Oct 2008
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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