Congo war-driven crisis kills 45,000 a month: study
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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GENEVA The World Health Organization says at least 70-thousand people have died in refugee camps in Sudan since March. The new WHO death toll estimate is 20-thousand higher than one it released last month.
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GOMA, Congo -- Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said yesterday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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Between 6,000 to 10,000 of an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur are dying every month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic  Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although  it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 22 -- Death rates in Congo remain far higher than elsewhere in Africa despite years of relative peace and elections that were designed to bring stability to the beleaguered nation, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee.
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The official death toll from street riots last week following Congo's heated gubernatorial elections is 97, according to Congo's interior minister.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, but it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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GOMA, Congo  - Intense fighting between government and militia forces in eastern Congo has led to a surge in rape by fighters from all sides, women and doctors say.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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GOMA, Congo, July 14 -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine their troops in an attempt to pacify the area, according to a U.N. Security Council report released...
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Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding in the Zambezi valley, officials say.
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At least 36 people are killed in clashes between a religious sect and DR Congo police in an election dispute.
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At least 23 people died when a large motorized canoe capsized on Lake Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo late on Sunday, the United Nations said on Monday.
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GENEVA -- At least 70,000 refugees have died since March because of poor conditions in camps in Sudan's Darfur region, and more will die at the same rate unless countries contribute the $300 million in aid they promised, the UN health agency said yesterday.
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Over 1,000 Congolese civilians a day are dying, nearly all from disease and malnutrition, due to a festering conflict that has killed 3.8 million people, an aid agency said on Thursday.
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At least 36 people are killed in clashes  involving a DR Congo religious sect in an election dispute.