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Civilians fleeing after the Lord's Resistance Army destroyed homes and schools in northeastern DRC

Thousands still fleeing Ugandan rebel attacks in eastern DR Congo – UN agency

28 August 2009
Civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to suffer at the hands of a notorious Ugandan rebel group, whose attacks have forced at least 125,000 people in Orientale province to flee their homes in the last three weeks alone, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
Dikembe Mutombo from a TV spot created by UNICEF and the NBA in 2006

DR Congo: UNICEF chief, basketball star unveil new HIV/AIDS treatment centres

26 August 2009
The retired basketball great Dikembe Mutombo, along with the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), today unveiled two centres to improve HIV/AIDS treatment in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where more than 1 million people are living with the disease.
UN Blue Helmets on patrol in Orientale province, DRC

UN blue helmets provide help in wake of deadly attack in east of DR Congo

15 August 2009
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is providing medical assistance to the victims of a deadly attack by armed militiamen in a mine-rich area in the strife-torn east of the country.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Kinshasa, DR of Congo

United States vows support for UN efforts against sexual violence in DR Congo

11 August 2009
The United States stands alongside the United Nations ready to face down the use of rape as a weapon of war in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a local UN-backed radio station during her visit to the strife-torn nation.
Presidents Joseph Kabila (right) and Paul Kagame shake hands at Durban meeting in 2002

Ban welcomes summit between leaders of DR Congo and Rwanda

7 August 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed yesterday’s summit between the leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, the first official bilateral meeting since the neighbouring African nations broke off official ties more than one decade ago.
Goodwill Ambassador Osvaldo Laport talks to displaced Congolese women at a clinic in North Kivu during his recent visit

Scale of cruelty dealt to Congolese women disturbs UN refugee ambassador

3 August 2009
The award-winning Uruguayan actor and star of Argentine television, Osvaldo Laport, has expressed horror at the abuse suffered by women in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after returning from a visit to the war-ravaged region as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).