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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Joseph Kabila Kabange, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN/E. Debebe

At high-level meeting, Ban urges political solution to crisis in eastern DR Congo

27 September 2012
Stressing the need to end the suffering caused by the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has uprooted over 300,000 civilians since earlier this year, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an urgent and peaceful resolution based on dialogue.
In the provinces of North and South Kivu, WFP provides emergency food assistance to the internally displaced.
WFP/D. Pardon

UN launches new emergency operation to assist 1.2 million people in DR Congo

21 September 2012
The United Nations food relief agency today announced it has launched a new emergency operation for the next nine months which aims to assist some 1.2 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who have been affected by ongoing violence.
A nurse comforts a patient who has been diagnosed to have the Ebola virus.
WHO/Chris Black

UN working to combat Ebola outbreak in DR Congo as cases increase

18 September 2012
The United Nations health agency today said it is continuing to work with authorities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to stop an Ebola outbreak from spreading, with the number of detected cases having reached 46 in the past week.
People flee their homes as fighting continued between FARDC and M23 rebels in the Rutshuru territory in July 2012.
UN Photo/S. Liechti

DR Congo: UN appeals for nearly $40 million to assist civilians uprooted by conflict

18 September 2012
The United Nations refugee agency today appealed for just under $40 million to help almost half a million civilians displaced by conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous reviews an honour guard of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO.
UN Photo/Penangnini Toure

DR Congo: regional proposal for neutral force being considered, peacekeeping head says

12 September 2012
A proposal for a neutral force to help quell the violence that is causing massive suffering in the eastern Democratic of the Congo (DRC) is under consideration by United Nations peacekeeping operations, according to a top official currently visiting Africa’s Great Lakes region ahead of a high-level meeting on the issue later this month.