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Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti — Global Issues
According to UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, more than 290 schools have been damaged or destroyed in Ituri this year alone,…
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Escalating violence drives food crisis across eastern DR Congo, warns WFP — Global Issues
Conflict has plagued the DRC for decades, particularly in the east. Armed clashes escalated sharply this year as M23 rebels…
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More than 100 dead after flooding in eastern DR Congo, officials say | Floods News
The victims were mostly children and elderly people, with an additional 28 injured. Heavy overnight floods have washed away several…
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‘Massive’ needs in Sudan, DR Congo aid shortfall, support for Congolese refugees and Angola cholera relief — Global Issues
The UN estimates that in the past few weeks, over 330,000 people have fled into Tawila after the Rapid Support…
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DR Congo aid operation reaches Beni with food supplies for thousands — Global Issues
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that trucks packed with cereals, beans and cooking oil reached the city of…
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Anthrax outbreak compounds security crisis in eastern DR Congo — Global Issues
And with nearly seven million people forcibly displaced by violence since advances by M23 rebels earlier this year, the DRC…
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Guterres on India-Pakistan tensions, eastern DR Congo update, weather boost for locusts in Africa — Global Issues
“This morning, he spoke separately by telephone with Muhammad Shebaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,…
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DR Congo, Rwanda agree to draft peace deal by May 2 | Conflict News
US brings the two countries’ foreign ministers together and voices an interest in investment in the DRC’s mineral-rich east. Rwanda…
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DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi — Global Issues
“We’re pushed to our limits,” said Ayaki Ito, Director for Emergencies for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. One mother was…
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Sexual violence systematically used as a weapon of war in the DR Congo — Global Issues
Senior UN officials warned on Wednesday that all parties involved in the conflict are systematically using sexual violence as a…
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