Congo violence fuels surge in child abduction
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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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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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Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800
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Children are being subjected to rape and prostitution by UN peacekeepers in Haiti and Liberia, the BBC learns.
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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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Some 8,000 Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda following clashes between Congo's army and dissident general Laurent Nkunda, the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday.
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A warlord in eastern Congo is recruiting child soldiers in violation of international law, U.N. and government officials said Wednesday.
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The fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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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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Ethnically driven violence intensified in Kenya on Sunday, and police officials said at least 19 people, including 11 children, were burned to death in a house by a mob.
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Beirut - Gunmen in Iraq have abducted a seven-year-old Lebanese child and are demanding US$150 000 (about R922 000) for his release, Lebanon&#39;s official news agency reported on Sunday.
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KINSHASA, 20 December (IRIN) - With fresh battle fronts opening up and tens of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes, there has been mounting concern among international bodies that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is heading for a major war.
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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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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Wielding guns and machetes, the attackers charged into a refugee camp for Congolese Tutsi, shouting threats to kill any member of that tribe they found. Scores were slain in Friday&#39;s raid on the UN camp in Burundi, and ...
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JOHANNESBURG The United Nations reported Thursday that thousands of civilians had fled a battle zone in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the Rwandan border, heightening fears that a civil war that claimed as many as three million lives in the
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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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Human rights violations in the Russian  region of Ingushetia have increased with a surge in abductions  and beatings, Amnesty International said on Thursday.