Democratic Republic of the Congo

The sun sets on Kabul, Afghanistan.
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News in Brief 10 September 2021

10 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: Taliban violence against protesters increasing, warns OHCHR
  • Hungry Afghans resort to extreme coping strategies to feed families
  • Human rights abuses intensify in eastern DR Congo: UNHCR
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United Nations

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Tigray and Yemen

8 September 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments in northern Ethiopia, where the “hungry season” has started, as conflict escalates across Tigray’s borders.

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Food and blankets are handed out to people in need in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. UNHCR warned that the world cannot allow this “to become a humanitarian catastrophe”
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News in Brief 8 September 2021

8 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan suffering, 'unimaginable' says UN chief
  • Yemen: climate of fear has worsened, all sides to blame - rights experts
  • DR Congo declares deadly meningitis outbreak in troubled northeast
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Women are facing challenges keeping their children safe from a resurgence of the Bubonic plague in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
© UNICEF/Scott Moncrieff

Bubonic plague putting young lives at risk in DR Congo: UNICEF

24 August 2021
Health

A resurgence of Bubonic plague in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is putting young lives at risk, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday. 

A mother and her child in the Haji camp for internally displaced people in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
© UNICEF Afghanistan

News in Brief 13 August 2021

13 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe'
  • UN health agency WHO urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
  • Widespread DRCongo sexual abuse alert from UNHCR
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This mother of five decided to move from Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file)
IOM/Lauriane Wolfe

DR Congo: ‘Widespread and systematic’ violence linked to clashes over gold

13 August 2021
Peace and Security

Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday.

Street scenes in Havana, Cuba (File)
Unsplash/Jennifer Chen

News in Brief 16 July 2021

16 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Cuba: Bachelet calls for release of detained protesters, urges dialogue
  • Deadly flooding in Europe and heatwaves highlight need for climate action: WMO
  • DRCongo’s Beni city attacked for first time in 2 years: UNHCR
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Female peacekeepers from South Africa on patrol in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
MONUSCO/Michael Ali

DR Congo sees fresh government impetus to fight unrelenting violence in the east

7 July 2021
Peace and Security

A new government action plan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to reverse the urgent and tragic deterioration in the east of the country, where thousands of human rights abuses are being committed against civilians by armed militants, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday. 

More than three million children have been displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo due to militia violence.
© UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne

DR Congo: Grave consequences for children witnessing ‘appalling violence’, UNICEF reports

24 June 2021
Peace and Security

The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, appealed on Thursday for urgent resources to support thousands of people who have fled armed violence in two small towns in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past two months. 

Bundles of Somali shilling notes are seen at a money exchanger’s stall on the streets of the capital Mogadishu. Millions of people in the Horn of Africa nation rely on money sent from their relatives and friends abroad in the form of remittances in order to survive.
AU/UN IST/Stuart Price

News in Brief 16 June 2021

16 June 2021
News in Brief
  • Remittances key for needy families during pandemic
  • DR Congo leaders urged to avoid ethnic hate-speech: UN's Keita
  • Reversing desertification, key to well-being of millions: Guterres
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