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  • ANALYSIS-How to stop people dying from aid shortages? Tackle roots of crises

    news Thomson Reuters Foundation, 09 May 2016 (7 years ago )
    By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in Niger travel miles by donkey cart to health centres in the hope of getting food for their malnourished infants, leaving their vegetable gardens unattended and chores undone, only to be turned away with nothing. Children ...
  • As one year ends, Central African refugees make a wish for 2015

    news UNHCR, 08 Jan 2015 (9 years ago )
    As people around the world ushered in the New Year last week, refugees at a camp in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo joined in the celebrations, uncertain of what 2015 will bring them. And they put on a pretty good show with a Michael Jackson lookalike warming up the crowds of revellers at ...
  • Concertations en RDC sur le cas des réfugiés centrafricains

    news Journal de Bangui/mediacongo.net, 30 Jan 2015 (9 years ago )
    Le vice-Premier ministre, ministre de l’Intérieur et de la sécurité, Evariste Boshab, a examiné jeudi 29 janvier à Kinshasa la situation des réfugiés centrafricains installés en RDC avec une délégation centrafricaine conduite par Mme Jeannette Dethoua, ministre de la Réconciliation nationale, en séj...
  • Central African Republic - Surge in Violence Triggers New Displacement, Including Into DR Congo

    news allAfrica.com, 25 Feb 2015 (9 years ago )
    An upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has triggered fresh displacement inside the country and across the border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said today
  • UPDATE 2-Seven hacked to death in Congo hospital, dozens killed in clashes with Ugandan rebels

    news Reuters Africa, 30 Nov 2015 (8 years ago )
    (Adds government, U.N. comment) By Aaron Ross KINSHASA Nov 30 (Reuters) - Seven people hacked to death in a hospital were among at least 30 people killed in fighting at the weekend between the army, backed by U.N. troops, and Islamist Ugandan rebels in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, l...
  • RDC: la communauté internationale s’inquiète de la situation

    news RFI, 18 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    Les Etats-Unis demandent aux autorités congolaises de tenir compte du rapport publié la semaine dernière par l'ONU, un rapport qui dénonce la réduction de l'espace politique, particulièrement inquiétant à l'approche des élections. Huit scrutins en tout sont prévus avant la fin de l'année 2016, dont ...
  • L’insécurité alimentaire représente un plus grand défi en période de conflit civil et de sécheresse

    news Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 09 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )
    Le rapport de la FAO souligne des pertes importantes dues à la perturbation des activités agricoles, à la hausse des prix et au déplacement des moyens d’existence 09 juin 2017, Rome - Selon le dernier rapport de la FAO sur les Perspectives de récolte et la situation alimentaire, les bonnes récolt...
  • Central African Republic violence forces 90,000 to flee homes: UN

    news XinhuaNet, 30 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    GENEVA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Some 90,000 people have fled their homes since fighting between rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) began earlier this month, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported Tuesday. According to the Geneva-based agency, 68,000 men, women and children have been displace...
  • Refugee crisis in South Sudan now world’s fastest growing

    news UNHCR, 17 Mar 2017 (7 years ago )
    GENEVA – Driven by fresh fighting, horrendous acts of violence and facing drought and famine, thousands of people are fleeing South Sudan, making it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region has now reached 1.6 million people, an a...
  • Home is close, but so far away for Central African Republic refugees

    news UNHCR, 12 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    More than 60,000 refugees have crossed the Ubangi and Mboumou rivers in the past five months, fleeing the war-torn Central African Republic.