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Union Tells Doctors to Leave Ebola Zone
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
HE Uganda Medical Workers Union, an umbrella association of about 20, 000 health workers has asked under-resourced and unprotected medics attending to Ebola patients in the worst hit western district of Bundibugyo to leave ... more
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Red Cross seeks record funds to save lives in 2008
Topix - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"This amount reflects the organization's renewed commitment to meet acute medical needs in Iraq and to aid large numbers of Iraqis displaced within their own country" GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed on Thursday for a record 1.09 billion Swiss... more
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International Volunteer Day Celebrated in Kinshasa
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
nternational Volunteer Day was celebrated on 5 December 2007 by the Kinshasa based United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) that are working for MONUC. The ceremony ended with the laying of flowers for four MONUC UNVs that died during ... more
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President Says War in East Must Be Finished
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
n his annual address on the state of the nation this Thursday 6 November 2007 in Kinshasa in front of parliament, DRC president Joseph Kabila underlined in particular the achievements of the government, in relation to security, development and international ... more
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UN Calls for Civilian Protection in Country
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
aising alarm about abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially the volatile eastern region, an independent United Nations human rights expert is calling for measures to protect civilians ... more
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Group says Angolan soldiers rape and beat Congolese migrants
Topix - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The women and men are separated. The rapes are very systematic and the men are also beaten up and tortured" The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said Angolan soldiers have raped, beaten and tortured illegal Congolese migrant workers before deporting them across the border. via... more
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Congo army says retakes eastern town from rebels
Topix - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We will hunt down (Nkunda's men) to their last stronghold. We've received the order to give them everything we have." Democratic Republic of Congo's army retook a strategic town on Wednesday in a rare victory over rebels loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda in the... more
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Human Rights in DRC - the Situation is Alarming and the Challenges Enormous
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
r. Titinga Frederic Pacere, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights for the DRC, visited the country for eight days, to assess the current human rights ... more
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Great Lakes Countries Commit to Ending Conflicts
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
nited States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday received commitments from Africa's Great Lakes countries to stick to previous promises to end the conflict in eastern Congo which risks spilling across ... more
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Museveni Meets Rice in Ethiopia
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 06, 2007
HE US and the Great Lakes states have agreed to rapidly strengthen DR Congo security forces in their drive against rebel and foreign forces operating in the eastern part of that ... more
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DRC: Clashes raise fears for 15,000 IDPs
Topix - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The fighting around Kilolwire, where there are at least 15,000 displaced people, mostly from Mushake, would be dangerous if the clashes reached the village" KINSHASA, 5 December 2007 - Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo claimed to have routed fighters loyal to dissident General... more
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Two doctors die as Uganda Ebola toll climbs to 21
Topix - Wednesday, December 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Dr Nyaruhirira is scheduled to meet with local and international partners to update them on the current situation of Ebola and to also request them to cooperate in stopping the virus from crossing over to Rwanda" The Ebola virus has killed two doctors in western Uganda,... more
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Clashes Raise Fears for 15,000 IDPs
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, December 05, 2007
overnment forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claimed to have routed fighters loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda from the North Kivu town of Mushake, raising concerns for the safety of 15,000 displaced people in the nearby village of ... more
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U.S. Secretary of State Urges Stronger Security
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, December 05, 2007
trengthening the security institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a prerequisite for long-term solutions to the country's problems, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the media in the Ethiopian capital, Addis ... more
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DR Congo troops battle rebels for strategic village: army
Topix - Wednesday, December 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We restarted the offensive early this morning (Tuesday)" Democratic Republic of Congo troops clashed with rebels in the country's east for a second straight day on Tuesday as they sought to take control of a strategic village, the army said. via Raw Story ... more
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Let the DRC Honour its Plans for FDLR
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, December 05, 2007
he news that the Democratic Republic of Congo has fulfilled a November 9 agreement to send its plans to the Rwanda government regarding disarming Forces Democratique de Liberation du Rwanda rebels (FDLR) is most ... more
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UN Calls on Rebels to Stop Fighting
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
s fighting between Congolese Government forces and troops loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda intensifies in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations peacekeeping mission there has urged all illegal fighters to lay down their ... more
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Fighting Interrupts Food Aid to 300,000 in the East
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
he UN World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended the delivery of food aid to as many as 300,000 vulnerable people because of renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials ... more
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As Fighting Intensifies, Population At Displaced Site Swells
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
undreds of people have been streaming into a makeshift camp for displaced persons in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid clashes between Government troops (FARDC) and those loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda, the United Nations refugee agency reported ... more
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Congo-Kinshasa: Army Attacks Rebels Amid Concern Over Displaced
Topix - Tuesday, December 04, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"From that base they used to shell our positions" Concern is growing over the fate of an estimated 30,000-40,000 internally displaced people in Nyanzale in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after mobile phone communications between the town and ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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