Congo violence fuels surge in child abduction-group
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Fighting in eastern Congo this month has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups who force minors to fight, carry ammunition or become their sex slaves, Save the Children said on Monday.
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Aid agencies and human rights groups working in eastern DR Congo say they are being targeted by militias.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 23 -- A variety of armed groups, including the Congolese military, have routinely terrorized civilians across eastern Congo in the past year, with killings, massacres, rapes, abductions, looting and other brutalities perpetrated by all parties in the conflict, according to a report ...
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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, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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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, but it  was unclear who was behind the violence.
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Armed groups in eastern Congo are  recruiting fighters in camps for those displaced by violence,  the U.N. refugee chief said on Sunday, as diplomats tried to  revive a peace plan that has failed to halt fighting.
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Â· 31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in BritainÂ· Film files seized include babies being raped
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More than 50 percent of children in refugee camps around Africa's volatile Great Lakes area have experienced some form of sexual abuse, a humanitarian group said in report Monday.
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Rival factions in Congo are forcibly recruiting hundreds of children and sending them to fight on the front lines of an escalating conflict in the east of the country, the United Nations said Friday.
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Armed gangs are seizing children for ransom in the Central African Republic, Amnesty International says.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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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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Following last week&#39;s massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a refugee camp near Burundi&#39;s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Burundian government is speeding up efforts to help the United Nations set up more secure camps in the
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The kidnapping and torture of  children by a Uganda religious sect was high on the list of a  new United Nations appeal on Thursday for the world's forgotten  tragedies.
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Murder, rape and abductions are on the rise in West Darfur state, the United Nations said on Wednesday, noting with concern that increased violence in the lawless Sudanese region had driven more people into camps.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Kidnappings and other violent crimes have increased in Haiti in recent weeks, and Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on Monday blamed the surge partly on criminals deported by the United States.
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BAQUBA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military  operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.