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29 May 2012 - 12:49pmThe diarrhoea and vomiting started before dawn. By 8 am, 12 year old Steward Okoulokami was weak and losing weight. His panicked father, Dimitri, packed Steward into a canoe and took him to the Congolese capital, Brazzaville. “In the morning around 8am, when I looked at my son, he had lost a lot of... -
16 May 2012 - 1:47pmHumanitarian agencies in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing basic support as the number of displaced people across the country reaches 2 million for the first time in nearly three years. Over the past nine months, the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in DRC... -
23 April 2012 - 5:22pmCrammed into a four-wheel-drive car, OCHA Humanitarian Affairs Officer Gilbert Sengamali and colleagues from the UN and local NGOs are on their way from Bukavu in South Kivu to the Shabunda region, where they will assess the needs of displaced people. Ongoing conflict in this part of eastern Democratic... -
14 April 2012 - 1:36amHumanitarian agencies are supporting tens of thousands of Congolese immigrants expelled from Angola, many of whom say they were subjected to violence and abuse. Last year, Angola expelled more than 100,000 Congolese nationals across their 2,500 km common border. And since late 2003, Angola has... -
26 March 2012 - 6:58pmFifteen-year-old Espoir has spent the past six months in a transit centre for child soldiers. The centre is run by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Bureau for Volunteer Service for Children and Health, in Bukavu, South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Espoir—which...
