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  • Skin markings save farmer escaping DRC violence

    news UNHCR, 05 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    DUNDO, Angola – The smoke form the burning village hung in the air as the militiamen fanned out through the fields in search of residents to butcher. As her family scattered in different directions, Elena Kita was grabbed from behind by a strong pair of hands. The man who snatched her took out a ma...
  • Modern technology helping refugees in Angola get aid fast

    news UNHCR, 01 Aug 2017 (6 years ago )
    A long queue snakes its way through Cacanda reception centre as people wait patiently to receive their monthly food rations of maize meal, cooking oil and beans. An average of 4,500 people queue daily to receive food and other items like blankets, mosquito nets, buckets and solar lamps. The distr...
  • Zambian President calls on international community to scale-up assistance to Congolese refugees

    news ReliefWeb, 31 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    The President of Zambia Edgar Chagwa Lungu visited Kenani Transit Centre in the northern Zambia to assess the situation of over 6,000 refugees fleeing the violence and insecurity from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since end of August.
  • Empowering vulnerable Congolese refugees in Uganda through cash.

    news Danish Refugee Council, 09 Jul 2018 (5 years ago )
    Empowering vulnerable Congolese refugees in Uganda through cash. The money is from a six-months unconditional cash transfer project now in its fourth month of implementation by the Danish Refugee Council. The project is funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) and th...
  • We need peace in DRC

    news Zambia Daily Mail Limited, 04 Nov 2018 (5 years ago )
    AS THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prepares to hold elections on December 23, the world is anxiously waiting to see what the outcome will be. President Lungu, who is chairperson of the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) organ on politics, defence and security, has called for credi...
  • The refugees learning to reconnect

    news UNHCR, 24 Jul 2015 (8 years ago )
    In Mauritania, a Congolese mother is helping refugees to reconnect by teaching IT, 17 years after her own displacement. The city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, is no stranger to refugees. Around 1,500 people who have fled some of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts now call it home. One of them, Budiaki*, i...
  • President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, visited Kenani refugee transit centre in Nchelenge

    news Lusaka Times, 01 Nov 2017 (6 years ago )
    Pictures from the President's visit in Kenani TC
  • DRC Congo violence sees surge in refugees fleeing eastwards

    news UNHCR, 30 Jan 2018 (6 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by a recent surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is driving large numbers of Congolese to flee eastwards to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda.
  • Thousands of DR Congo refugees escaping violence to Uganda

    news Al Jazeera, 13 Apr 2018 (5 years ago )
    Al Jazeera travels Lake Albert, on the DR Congo-Uganda border, to meet some of the refugees who have fled violence in Congo.
  • Fleeing DRC to Uganda: Africa's other refugee crisis

    news Al Jazeera / by Ingebjorg Karstad, 01 Mar 2018 (6 years ago )
    Lake Albert has become ground zero for thousands of Congolese families escaping fierce fighting into Uganda.