Congo Deaths Remain High
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The survey estimated that 45,000 people continue to die every month, almost all of them from hunger and disease.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Rates of pregnancy-related deaths in south Sudan are the highest in the world, a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) official said.
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Eight more cases of Ebola have been identified in Congo, raising to 17 the number of people confirmed to have contracted the deadly illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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At least 37 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting against the results of governorship polls in Congo's most western province, officials said on Thursday.
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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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A total of 70,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top U.N. official said on Friday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said on Tuesday they expected to find more dead.    Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue...
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The bodies of about 160 Congolese Tutsis killed in Burundi during the weekend were buried on Monday, but the impact of the massacre is just beginning to be felt. A former rebel group now in the transitional government in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
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The death toll in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose above 660 on Tuesday and government officials were still struggling to reach areas cut off by flood waters.
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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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The U.N. said Wednesday that politically motivated human rights violations in Congo have risen ahead of historic elections and blamed government security forces for most of the violence, including killings and rapes.
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Almost all deaths come from hunger and disease, and the death rate has actually increased in some parts of central Congo, despite billions of dollars in international aid.
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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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New estimates of the number of people killed by the conflict in western Sudan challenges widely quoted figures released last year by the U.S. government.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.