Congoâs Death Rate Unchanged Since War Ended
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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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Humankind's closest relative is facing extinction in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Rwandan troops have killed at least 19 civilians in an attack on a town in eastern Congo, a Congolese commander said on Tuesday, after Rwanda said
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Fighting between rival army factions ended days of relative calm in eastern Congo on Sunday, while Rwanda withdrew a threat to send troops into the country.
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The war officially ended last year, but fighting is still claiming lives and destroying homes. Yesterday Rwanda threatened to invade again.
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Ten months after the deaths  of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in a botched raid in the Congo  jungle, two U.N. investigations have failed to solve the  mystery of whether they died in friendly fire or were gunned  down by rebels.
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U.N. and European Union peacekeepers  patrolled Congo's capital Kinshasa on Wednesday as a truce that  ended three days of gun battles between rival political  factions appeared to be holding.
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Congo President Joseph Kabila visited northeastern territory formerly held by rebels Saturday for the first time since taking power in 2001, his spokesman said, while the army claimed to have retaken a village near Zambia and killed at least 20 militiamen.
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BELGRADE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Ten years after the wars in the Balkans left a  quarter of a million dead, reconciliation moves are still waiting  for the 'truth' to come out first.
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At least 53 people have died of cholera since mid-November in the Republic of Congo, according to official figures released Sunday. Local officials said they believed the real toll was much higher.
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The World Health Organization said on  Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown  illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Sept. 3 -- Two hospitals, named for two mothers. One is mired in the past; the other represents beaten-down Congo's hopes for a better future.
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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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A senior UN official has said the recent upsurge in violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be abating.
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A humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, once called the world's worst, appears to have eased, with the death toll from disease dropping, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
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At least 17 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo when a passenger ferry sank on Lake Tanganyika, but around 120 people survived, a senior official said on Wednesday.