United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva)
Website: http://www.unhcr.org/
May 8
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Congo-Brazzaville: Cross-River Repatriation Commences [press release]
The UN refugee agency has launched a repatriation programme for tens of thousands of refugees who want to return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from neighbouring Republic... Read more »
March 13
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Congo-Brazzaville: Arms Depot Blast Victims Crowd Shelter Sites in Brazzaville [press release]
Chantal is desperate for shelter. The 43-year-old was among an estimated 14,000 people left homeless and in urgent need of assistance when an arms depot exploded on March 4 in an... Read more »
February 23
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Congo-Kinshasa: Refugee Child Dreams of Going Home [press release]
Obed speaks slowly, looking at the ground, as he describes what seemed an idyllic childhood before his family was forced to flee across the nearby river that separates his refugee... Read more »
December 1, 2011
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Congo-Brazzaville: 16 Days of Activism - Couples in the Congo Stand Up to the Stigma of Rape [press release]
Rape is widespread in eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but for many of the female victims, what comes after is often worse than the act itself. Read more »
September 30, 2011
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Gabon: A New Chapter Begins for Congolese Who Fled Fighting [interview]
At the end of July, the government of Gabon announced that civilians who fled conflict in neighbouring Republic of the Congo in the late 1990s would cease to be recognized as... Read more »
September 12, 2011
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Congo-Brazzaville: Caring for the Most Vulnerable of the Vulnerable - Orphans in Brazzaville [press release]
In his traumatic young life, Alphonse has been forced to flee his country, lost his mother and been accused of witchcraft. But while the 12-year-old refugee faces a tough future,... Read more »
May 6, 2011
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Congo-Brazzaville: Congolese Boy Recovers Childhood, Step By Step [press release]
It is 10:30 in the morning, recess time for the hundreds of children who attend the 15 Avril refugee camp school in Bétou in north-eastern Republic of the Congo. Kids of all... Read more »
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