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UN peacekeepers in the DR of Congo

Security tightened at DR of Congo-Burundi border, UN reports

26 August 2004
United Nations peacekeeping missions in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are working to tighten security along the border to prevent a repeat of the recent slaughter of refugees at Gatumba camp.
Displaced receive food aid

UN to distribute relief supplies to displaced in eastern DR of Congo

19 August 2004
United Nations agencies have sent representatives to the high plains of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to distribute 90 tons of food and basic supplies being airlifted there for some 1,200 internally displaced families who fled another area in the region that is experiencing protracted unrest.

Illegal land claims helped fuel clashes in DR of Congo - UN report

10 August 2004
The Ituri district in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is undergoing one of the world's worst and most ignored human rights crises, largely stemming from illegal land seizures which have led to ethnic strife, the deaths of 8,000 civilians and the displacement of another 600,000, a United Nations report says.