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DR Congo: UN-backed military action halted after army troops protest conditions

3 March 2006
One of two operations in which hundreds of helicopter-backed United Nations peacekeepers were helping the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) dislodge militia has been called off so that the Congolese soldiers involved can receive better training and preparation, a spokesman said today.

UN peacekeepers in DR of Congo help army in second operation against rebel militia

1 March 2006
In the second military operation this week of its kind, some 300 United Nations peacekeepers, backed by helicopter gunships, are helping the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) dislodge militia said to have been looting and enslaving locals in the eastern region of the vast country.
Heads of joint mission listen to street children in Kinshasa

DR Congo: UN mission to Central Africa visits war-torn eastern region

28 February 2006
The joint mission to Central Africa by the heads of three United Nations humanitarian agencies is now in the eastern region of the war-shattered Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where they plan to meet refugees returning home by boat from neighbouring Tanzania.
UNHCR's Guterres talks with a 17-year-old street boy

DR Congo: warning of ‘huge risk’ of new conflict, UN agencies urge greater aid

27 February 2006
Warning that there is “a huge risk for conflict to rise again” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC), the top United Nations refugee official has called on the international community to provide greater support for the vast country’s transition to full democracy for the first time in 45 years.

DR Congo: UN food supplies reach 60,000 people displaced by fighting

24 February 2006
United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun feeding 60,000 people who fled fighting between government troops and Mayi-Mayi militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today.

Fresh fighting sparks fears of new displacement of civilians in DR of Congo

23 February 2006
New operations by the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against Mayi-Mayi militia in Katanga are sparking fears of a further flight of civilians in a region where 120,000 people have already fled their homes since November, United Nations emergency officials said today.
Kofi Annan

Annan welcomes Democratic Republic of Congo’s new legal framework

22 February 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the new Constitution and electoral laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the United Nations is helping to organize one of the biggest polls in which it has ever participated.

DR of Congo: UN delivers food aid to thousands fleeing fighting in east

15 February 2006
As thousands of people flee fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations food relief agency is airlifting 30 tons of aid this week via UN peacekeeping helicopters.

UN and EC kick off $681 million humanitarian plan for conflict-ridden DRC

13 February 2006
A wide-ranging plan to help the 30 million most vulnerable people in the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has endured one of the deadliest humanitarian catastrophes since World War II, was launched today in Brussels by senior United Nations and European Commission officials.

Thousands of Congolese flee sustained fighting in North Kivu, UN says

10 February 2006
Thousands of people continue to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting continues between the Army and dissident forces in the eastern part of North Kivu province, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.