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Congo-Kinshasa: Rebel Splits and Failed Peace Talks Drive New Violence
The New Humanitarian, 5 May 2020
'Year by year our people fall dead while the soldiers look on.' Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Forgotten People of Ituri Fleeing Violence
MSF, 14 February 2020
Benjamin Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Killings and Violence Targeting Ethnic Group 'May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity'
UN News, 10 January 2020
The targeting of the Hema community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with violence, including killings and rape, may amount to crimes against humanity, said the UN on… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: David Gressly to the Population of Ituri - 'We Stand On Your Side'
Monusco, 20 April 2020
"What we have seen and heard is just unacceptable." It was a visibly shocked David Gressly speaking on Friday April 17, 2020 from Bunia airport before flying to Goma, wrapping up a… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Govt's Priority Dilemma - Insecurity and COVID-19
East African, 12 April 2020
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are juggling two key challenges: The coronavirus and insecurity. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Civil Society Organisations Call for a Complete Ceasefire to Tackle the Coronavirus Pandemic
Africa Renewal, 5 May 2020
"End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging our world."--Antonio Guterres Read more »
Failed Peace Talks Drive New Violence in DR Congo's Ituri
Drawn from the region's marginalised ethnic Lendu community, militiamen have killed hundreds in recent weeks, and forced as many as 200,000 to flee their homes last month alone. Their victims are mostly ethnic Hema, who hold much of Ituri's economic power, writes Philip Kleinfeld and Robert Flummerfelt for The Humanitarian.
InFocus
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The UN Human Rights Spokesperson Rupert Colville has said that more than 150 people have been killed in Djugu and Mahagi territories in Ituri province since early March 2020, ... Read more »
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The United Nations has said that the opportunity to quickly end the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be lost due to violence in the country's ... Read more »
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The Hema and Lendu ethnic groups in Ituri Province have been in conflict over land since 1999. The latest has forced more than 300,000 people to flee for their lives, according to ... Read more »
Women and children rest against a tent in the General Hospital site in a makeshift site in Bunia, in Ituri province (file photo)
