Congo displaced recruited to fight: U.N. refugee head
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GOMA, Congo  - 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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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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The head of the US Agency for International Development, USAID, has just returned from Sudanâs Darfur region. Andrew Natsios says more than one million people have been displaced because the conflict there
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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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The United Nations will send peacekeepers to the frontline between rival army factions in eastern Congo on Tuesday after more than a week of fighting there, U.N. and diplomatic sources said.
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Northern Uganda, where around 20,000 children have been kidnapped and many forced to serve as combatants, is the world&#39;s biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, the head of UN humanitarian affairs said yesterday.
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The United Nations called for calm in  Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday after gun battles  surrounding the announcement of a presidential election run-off  stoked fears of a violent political showdown.
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Ten thousand Congolese refugees have  fled to neighboring Uganda following clashes between the  Congolese army and renegade troops in its eastern provinces,  the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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The numbers of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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The United Nations must offer better protection to 25 million civilians displaced by conflicts from Sudan to Colombia, a report said on Friday.
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Following reports of fighting between different factions of former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and weapons distribution to civilians in North Kivu province, the United Nations mission today said it sent a
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians fled renewed fighting between Tutsi-dominated rebels, army troops and pro-government militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission said.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said more than a million people displaced by the Darfur conflict are living in a &quot;climate of fear&quot;.
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Renegade soldiers are continuing to battle troops loyal to the Congolese government in fighting that has displaced at least 100,000 people in eastern Congo over the last week, UN officials said.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of  Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.