DRC conflict 'kills 1,000 a day'
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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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The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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Days of clashes between the army and Rwandan and Congolese militias in eastern Congo have killed at least 23 combatants and forced thousands to flee, the army and U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,071 and could reach 2,000, the government&#39;s civil protection agency said Wednesday.
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Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, the International Rescue Committee said in a study Thursday.
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Between 170,000 and 255,000 people have died in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
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Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests and President Mwai Kibaki invited his main rival to talks.
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Weekend fighting between rival factions of the armed forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced an undisclosed number of people, official sources reported on Monday.
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8 December 2004 - Following helicopter and foot patrols in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission in the country has found evidence of hostilities by &quot;an armed, organized but unknown military presence,&quot; but has not
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As violence in Darfur escalates, a debate is growing over how many people have died in what officials call the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A U.N. agency's survey cites at least 200,000 deaths, but other studies say the death toll could be closer to 400,000 or more.
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More than 1,000 people have been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods devastated three coastal towns in the Philippines, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
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A UK parliamentary report says arms smuggling in DR Congo is so widespread that war could restart there.
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More than 1,700 civilians were killed and 2,000 wounded in Somalia during the past year, a local human rights organization said Saturday.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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1 December 2004 - The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today expressed concern about renewed tensions between the DRC and its eastern neighbour over Rwanda&#39;s expressed intentions to attack DRC-based Rwandan
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Hopes are high that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups can end a decade of fighting that a new report says has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people.
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More than 150 rebels were killed when U.N. peacekeepers fought off a rebel offensive in east Congo last week, officials said on Tuesday, adding that the heavy losses had led to surrenders among the divided insurgents.