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United Nations-backed talks aimed at bringing an end to the deadly conflict between the Government and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been focusing on security matters, including a possible ceasefire, since resuming earlier this week in Nairobi, a senior official said today.
Thousands of civilians have been displaced in another deadly attack by suspected Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.
Some hoodlums within the ruling National Democratic congress (NDC) have declared war against members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) residing at Agbobloshie Market in Accra.
Women and children in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo have received relief materials from Defence and Police Officers' Wives Association (DEPOWA) through the office of the First Lady.
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INTERNALLY displaced persons (IDPs) in Omel camp in Paicho sub-county, Gulu district over the weekend held 13 people hostage overnight over a disputed piece of land.
Fadumo Mohamed Hassan and her seven children are among the few families left in Yaaqshid district of north Mogadishu, after worsening conflict forced most residents to flee the capital.
Hundreds of people including women and children have made largely organized demonstration complaining about less help of aid agencies in Bal'ad district in Middle Shabelle region on Monday, Shabelle's correspondent reported.
While the Plateau State government is busy dragging the Federal Government to the Supreme Court for setting up a panel of inquiry to probe the November 28 sectarian riots that engulfed the state over the local government election in Jos North, and others are calling on government not to cover the perpetrators of the crisis, Murtala Muhammed Foundation, a non-profit organisation is busy saving the ...
TWENTY fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army as the three-week multinational assault on the rebels' hideouts in the Garamba jungles continues.
The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has urged all parties to the ongoing conflict in Somalia to ensure the safety of humanitarian aid workers after one of the agency's staff members was gunned down while monitoring a school feeding programme in the southern part of the war-torn nation.
There were 9.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Central and Eastern Africa region as of December 2008, according to a United Nations report released today, 400,000 less than at the end of June, but because of the fluidity of the situation officials advised against laying too much store on the reduction.
Local authorities in the central Galgadud region have appealed for urgent help for at least 80,000 people displaced by fighting in the towns of Dusamareb and Guri-Eil.
Women and children sit on a patch of grass under one of a few leafy trees that lessens the heat from the harsh midday sun. They are among the most recent asylum-seekers who are flooding across the border from Zimbabwe.
United States President George W. Bush on Monday authorized an immediate airlift of equipment and supplies to the international peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
The United Nations is continuing to rush assistance to help those uprooted by clashes in the war-torn far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including victims of violence at the hands of the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The top United Nations relief official in Somalia has voiced grave concern at the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the strife-torn nation, where fresh clashes last week have reportedly killed more than 40 people and displaced over 50,000.
THE Pan African Movement is to host the African Union pre-summit meeting on Refugees and Internally Displaced People, this April in Kampala.
At least 9 people were killed in separate incidents of violence in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reported Sunday.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today called on the main rebel group in the east of the vast country to resume talks with the Government next week in a bid to end fighting that has forced over 250,000 from their homes since August.
President Joseph Kabila has vowed to destroy LRA rebels over Atrocities they have committed in his country.
Many thousands of Kenyans remain displaced a year after election-related violence forced around half a million people to flee their homes, according to humanitarian sources.
Hundreds of refugee mothers across the Cape Flats may be off to a better start in the new year as they are set to receive milk formula for their babies.
ABOUT 140 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Parabongo camp in Amuru district, whose huts were last week burnt down, have received relief from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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