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  • L’interminable exode des Centrafricains en RDC

    news Le Monde, 03 Feb 2015 (9 years ago )
    Depuis décembre, au moins 10 000 réfugiés auraient traversé la rivière Oubangui pour se rendre en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) voisine. La Direction générale de migrations rapporte pour sa part l’entrée d’environ 30 000 personnes. Un grand écart, mais le HCR et la Commission nationale pour...
  • CAR refugees face uncertainty across the border: ‘Death was in front of us and we had to run away’

    news The Guardian, 02 Feb 2015 (9 years ago )
    In a narrow canoe hollowed out from a tree trunk, a teenager, Valentine Pasi, her baby son and five young brothers-in-law ended their desperate race to safety across the Ubangi river. Behind them were the murders, rapes and desolation of home. Ahead of them, profound uncertainty. For many, this dece...
  • 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 ...
  • Lessons on forgiveness by religious leaders helping Central African Republic refugees in Democratic Republic of Congo

    news Al Jazeera, 16 Oct 2014 (9 years ago )
    During her 55 years in the DRC, Sister Maria Concetta has learned many lessons, but slowing down isn't one of them. An experienced midwife, the 80-year-old nun has assisted the births of more than 20,000 babies - eight of whom were the children of her good friend, Imam Moussa Bawa. The imam, 72, do...
  • Cash grants transform life in Congo camp for CAR refugees

    news UNHCR, 03 Oct 2014 (9 years ago )
    The market in Mole refugee camp was buzzing on a recent Saturday morning, with stalls selling everything from fish, goat meat, cassava and vegetables to clothes, cosmetics, household items and electronic equipment. Just two months earlier, the place had been half empty. That all changed when the Wor...
  • Capoeira brings leisure and peace-building for refugees in northern DR Congo

    news UNHCR, 19 Sep 2014 (9 years ago )
    It's a hot, muggy Saturday afternoon in the Mole refugee camp, but while many people are taking a siesta, a hardy group of young men and women are indulging in their new obsession – capoeira. The Brazilian martial art includes elements of dance, acrobatics and music, and it is keeping people occupie...
  • 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
  • Les réfugiés centrafricains sont menacés par la malnutrition en RDC

    news Journal de Bangui, 04 Mar 2015 (9 years ago )
    Des milliers de réfugiés ayant fui la crise en Centrafrique souffrent de la faim et sont menacés par la malnutrition dans le nord-est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), où ils ont trouvé refuge, a annoncé Médecins sans frontières (MSF) dans un communiqué. "La majorité de ces réfugiés (...
  • RDC: nouvelles nominations dans l'administration des provinces

    news RFI, 30 Oct 2015 (8 years ago )
    Le président Joseph Kabila nommé jeudi 29 octobre dans la soirée les commissaires spéciaux des 21 nouvelles provinces et leurs adjoints. L'ordonnance lue à la télévision officielle reprend des noms des membres de la majorités. Ces commissaires spéciaux, issus de la majorité et de son allié, le Palu,...