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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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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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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More than 300 people have died during violence in Kenya since a disputed election on December 27, a state-funded local rights organization and an international group said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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According to a U.N. report, 3,709 Iraqis were killed in October, up slightly from the previous high in July.
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At least 30 people die in flooding in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The United Nations said Friday its investigators have discovered three mass graves at a northeast Congo military camp containing the bodies of 30 people, including women and children, who were allegedly killed by soldiers. The dead were found at a military camp in eastern Ituri province after witnesses accused troops of killing dozens of people two months ago, U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said.
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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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Each year more than one million babies in sub-Saharan Africa die before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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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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Geneva - A total of 70 000 people are estimated to have died in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top United Nations official said on Friday.
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More than 1,000 people a day die as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report says.
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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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Rival factions in Congo&#39;s postwar army battled in the eastern region of the vast nation Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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More than 1,000 people die every day as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new report says.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Rival factions of Congo's army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Armed combatants have brutally raped tens of  thousands of women, girls and babies in war-ravaged Congo, and many are dying "needlessly" because the country's health care system is incapable of dealing with the crisis, an international rights group said Tuesday.