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A UNHCR boat on Oubangui River : Some 16,000 DRC civilians have fled deadly clashes in Equateur Province and are crossing the river to the Republic of Congo KINSHASA, 5 November 2009 - At least 16,000 civilians have fled deadly clashes in western Democratic Republic of Congo and are now languishing, many without food or shelter, in neighbouring ...

Villagers are fleeing their homes in the DRC. [File Photo] 6 November 2009 &#150 Clashes between two tribes in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo have caused more than 16,000 civilians to flee their homes since last week, crossing into neighbouring Republic of Congo to find safety, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

About 7,000 people fleeing ethnic violence in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have crossed the border into neighbouring Congo Republic in the past 24 hours, state radio said on Wednesday.

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The UN refugee agency repatriated 502 Congolese refugees from Zambia on Wednesday, bringing the total number of returnees to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than 15,000 since May.

PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES A Congolese soldier stands by a truck of the U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year in Kibati.

The United Nations said on Monday it would cut support for some units of Congo's armed forces amid allegations that the U.N.-backed soldiers had killed, raped and mutilated hundreds of civilians.

The head of United Nations peacekeeping has called for a joint investigation into the targeted killing this year of dozens of civilians in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by elements of the country's military.

Russian and Ukrainian diplomats will join efforts to seek the release of the crew of a cargo vessel accused of a murder in the Congo, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported.

The United Nations has suspended assistance to a Congolese army brigade battling rebels amid allegations that its troops killed 62 civilians, including women and children, between May and September.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 16 Comparing the hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Friday urged the international community not to forget the Congolese in their hour of ...

United Nations agencies are preparing to airlift tents and an emergency response team to help scores of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo as each country continues to drive out its neighbour's nationals.

Brazzaville - The Republic of Congo confirmed its first cases of swine flu on Wednesday after health authorities said five school students had been diagnosed with the virus.

Civilians in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in constant fear and face a critical humanitarian situation as rebels keep up attacks, the humanitarian aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said Wednesday.

Kinshasa: Armed villagers killed at least 47 policemen trying to intervene in ethnic clashes in northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The African continent is still being sidelined by international financial institutions, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

If ever there was a hell on earth, then surely it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The SADC Troika on Defence, Security and Politics began its fact finding mission in Harare on Thursday in an effort to narrow the differences between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe.

India Thursday said it will offer $263 million line of credit for three projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and also set up an IT excellence centre in the Central African country.

A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement.