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Congo-Kinshasa: Govt Boycotts Donor Conference
DW, 13 April 2018
DR Congo has shunned a donors' conference in Geneva aimed at raising billions in aid, saying the country is being given a 'bad image' by the UN. Some 5 million people in the… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Announces Additional Assistance
State Department, 13 April 2018
Today, the U.S. government announced nearly $67 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at the DRC Humanitarian… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: UN Calls on Kinshasa to Not Shun Pledging Conference
VOA, 12 April 2018
The United Nations says it hopes the Democratic Republic of Congo will attend a donors’ conference in Geneva later this week aimed at raising $1.7 billion for life-saving… Read more »
Catastrophe? What Catastrophe? DR Congo Asks
Authorities say they will not attend a donors' conference aimed at raising aid funds for the country because the UN's description of its humanitarian crisis as "catastrophic" is false and gives the country "a bad image".
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Congo-Kinshasa: Funding Urgently Needed to Avert a Catastrophe - CAFOD
CAFOD, 12 April 2018
At a UN Pledging Conference this week (13 April) in Geneva, international aid donors will be battling to raise the profile of an under-funded, and worsening humanitarian crisis in… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Country is Still in Crisis but There Is a Way Out
The Conversation Africa, 11 April 2018
After many months of upheaval, the Democratic Republic of Congo is set for yet another year of political struggle and internal conflict. Current President Joseph Kabila remains the… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Overview of the Political Crisis, Human Rights
HRW, 9 April 2018
Presentation at the roundtable: "Political, Electoral and Human Rights Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from Experiences in South Africa and the SADC Region,"… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Trauma Plagues Kids Caught up in Kasai
VOA, 22 March 2018
Thousands of children in the troubled Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used as combatants over the last two years amid conflict between local militia and… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Refugees Who Fled Violence in Ituri, DRC, Face Disease and Privation in Uganda
MSF, 5 April 2018
The attackers wore masks and used axes, machetes, and guns to slaughter civilians in the strife-torn Ituri province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Areiti, a mother of… Read more »
