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Congo-Kinshasa: UN Rights Office Warns of Risk of Further Attacks On Displaced Camps in DR Congo
UN News, 8 February 2022
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must ensure civilian protection in the wake of recent deadly raids on camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), the… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: UNICEF Condemns Attack on Displacement Camp in Ituri Province, DRC
Unicef, 4 February 2022
UNICEF wholeheartedly condemns the latest attack in Ituri province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which 15 children are initially reported to have been… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: More Peacekeepers Deployed in Wake of Deadly Camp Attack
UN News, 3 February 2022
Peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have stepped up their presence in the area around a camp for displaced people in Ituri province following a deadly attack… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Bloodbath At Refugee Site Worsens DR Congo Strife
CAJ News, 3 February 2022
The killing of at least 50 people by a militia group in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) highlights the worsening of one of the world's most complex and long-standing… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Refugee Advocate Condemns Killing of Civilians in DRC Camp
VOA, 3 February 2022
Aid groups have condemned a militia group for killing at least 60 people at a camp for internally displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Norwegian… Read more »
UN Calls on DR Congo to Protect Civilians, Warns of More Violence
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must ensure civilian protection in the wake of recent deadly raids on camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on February 2, 2022. "There is significant risk that other IDP sites could be attacked as well," Spokesperson Liz Throssell told journalists in Geneva.
The most recent occurred last week when the armed group Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO), an association of various Lendu militia, killed some 62 people at the Plaine Savo site in Ituri province. UNICEF condemned the attack in which 15 children were initially reported to have been killed and more than 30 injured.
CODECO is one of an array of militias operating in eastern Congo as a result of longstanding tensions over land and resources. Their militants have killed hundreds of civilians in Ituri in recent years and forced thousands to flee their homes, according to the United Nations.
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A military court of Katanga in southern Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced 51 people to death over the murders of two United Nations researchers, Michael Sharp a Read more »
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Humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says four consecutive attacks of unprecedented violence hit the sites of Tché, Drodro, Paroisse, Luk Read more »
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"A lasting solution to the violence "requires a broader political commitment to address the root causes of conflict." the Special Representative of the Secretary- Read more »
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said a series of attacks by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced nearly 20,000 civilians to flee ... Read more »
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to investigate recent deadly attacks by militants in the east and bring ... Read more »
Families shelter at a church that is being used as a temporary site for internally displaced people in Ituri, Democratic of the Congo.
