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  • DRC: Humanitarian funding to fight Ebola
    19 September 2012 - 5:34pm
    The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have received a total of US$1.75 million from humanitarian funds managed by OCHA and the UN Development Programme to help prevent and contain an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  The deadly disease, which killed some 250...
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  • DRC: Rapid Response Mechanism in South Kivu faces funding crisis
    11 July 2012 - 3:35pm
    The humanitarian crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is characterized by huge movements of internally displaced people (IDPs) who have been uprooted from their homes by armed attacks or the threat of violence. South Kivu Province is the most seriously affected, with over 856,...
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  • Aid Worker Diary: Saving lives as life begins
    1 June 2012 - 4:19pm
    “Help! Help! Evariste, Evariste, please open the door!” Early on the morning of 17 December 2011, Evariste Dindaye was woken by a man’s hysterical shouting. When Evariste opened his door, the panic-stricken man blurted out: “My wife is about to have a baby and she’s in...
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