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United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kyung-Wha Kang, to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo [EN/FR]

WHAT: Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO: Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator

WHEN: 27 to 30 May 2013

WHERE: Kinshasa and visits in the field

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Through northern DRC with a fridge

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MSF

Under any circumstances, it’s not an easy task traveling along muddy rainforest tracks by motorbike and crossing swollen rivers by dugout canoe. Now imagine doing it while carrying a refrigerator. This is exactly what UK native and Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) project coordinator Will Turner and his team will be doing for the next month as they mount an expedition to test 40,000 people in remote villages of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis).

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Rape in DR Congo: Victims and Torturers

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Pulitzer Center

In the east of the country, thousands of women, children and even men were raped last November. A crime committed not by the M23 rebels, but by the regular army, supposed to protect the population. Lloyd-Davies travelled to Minova in South Kivu province, where the rapists are now coming face to face with their victims in court.

View the full video report on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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Families caught up in renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

CAFOD is concerned at reports of renewed fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The fighting broke out this week in areas west of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, between the Congolese army and the rebel group M23. People in towns and living in camps have been caught in the crossfire.

People in Mugunga camps I and III and in Ndosho on the outskirts of Goma reported hearing heavy shelling nearby. For many previously displaced by fighting, this will be the fifth or sixth time they have had to flee in the last two years.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Conclude Historic Mission to Africa’s Great Lakes Region, Pledge Commitment to Implement Peace, Security and Economic Development

KAMPALA, May 24, 2013—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Friday ended a three-day historic mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Uganda, pledging that both of their global organizations will work closely together to bring peace, security, and economic development for the Great Lakes region that has for so long not experienced the fruits of prosperity.

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Censorship reigns in Nord-Kivu areas under M23 rebel control

Fighting between M23 rebels and government forces has intensified near Goma, the capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, since 20 May. As well as causing new civilian casualties, the clashes and the actions of some rebels are endangering many journalists and the availability of diverse, freely-reported news and information.

Reporters Without Borders has conducted a series of interviews with Nord-Kivu journalists and has spoken by phone with two M23 officials, Bertrand Bisimwa, the rebel movement’s political leader, and René Abandi, who is in charge of its external affairs.

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DDR/RR to sensitize LRA combatants through “Helicopter-Messaging”

Goma, May 23, 2013 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DD/RRR) division of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) initiated early this month a new sensitization strategy aimed at persuading the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) in the Orientale Province, to surrender to MONUSCO voluntarily.

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[video] Regulating conventional arms transfers: A humanitarian imperative

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ICRC

An effective Arms Trade Treaty that protects civilians from the devastating consequences of inadequately regulated arms transfers is urgently needed. One of the most important objectives of such a treaty must be to reduce the human cost of the availability of weapons. This can be achieved by setting clear norms so that transfers of conventional arms and ammunition are not authorized when there is a clear risk that the arms will be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law.

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IOM Responds to Increasing Humanitarian Needs as Conflict in DRC Escalates

Renewed fighting between government forces and the M23 rebel group north of the Provincial capital Goma has led to tension and increased insecurity in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

IOM maintains a strong presence as it continues to manage displacement sites surrounding Goma and provides humanitarian support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

International Organization for Migration:

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Chronic Marginalization, Fragmentation, Encroachment, Lack of Land Rights Make Pastoralists in Africa among Poorest in World, Indigenous Forum Told

HR/5135

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Twelfth Session
7th Meeting (PM)

Member States , Intergovernmental Organizations, United Nations Agencies Weigh in on Relationship between Governments, Pastoralists

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UNHCR Operation in CAR: Fact Sheet - 22 May 2013

After five months of food distribution disruption, UNHCR and partners finally provided one month ration to some 2,000 Sudanese refugees living in the Pladama Ouaka camp, Bambari.

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In Goma, Secretary-General hails regional accord as ‘best chance for peace in years’

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UN News Service

23 May 2013 – Arriving today in restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all the leaders of Africa’s Great Lakes region to throw their support behind a recently-signed peace accord which aims to ensure security, as well as development, for the long-troubled country.

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Child miners speak - Key findings on children and artisanal mining in Kambove DRC May 2013

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World Vision

The brutal reality of children working in mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the focus of a new report by World Vision, released today. Child Miners Speak offers insight into the dirty, dangerous and degrading lives of more than 50 children working at an artisanal copper and cobalt mine in the country’s Katanga province.

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USAID Brings New Communications Options to Remote Communities in Northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

In late April, residents across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were pleasantly surprised to receive phone calls from friends and relatives living in the remote northeastern corner of the country. For the first time, the people of Niangara, in the heavily-forested Haut Uélé District of Orientale Province, have access to a cellular communications network in their isolated community.

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UN SG to convene a meeting to review the status of the implementation of the Framework-Agreement

Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the progress made thus far by the Framework-Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Civilians must be spared the fighting in Goma

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ICRC

Geneva/Kinshasa (ICRC) – Inhabited areas north of the city of Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were hit by shelling on 21 and 22 May. Fighting with heavy weapons resumed at the beginning of the week in the hills of Mutaho, Rusayo and Muja, barely 10 kilometres north-west of Goma.

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Top Humanitarian Official calls for protection of civilians

Military actions are taking place too close to where civilian populations are located in violation of International Humanitarian Law. Three people were killed and 14 wounded by shells on 22 May.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Burundi + 3 others
UNHCR Burundi - Fact Sheet, April 2013

UNHCR operational highlights

  • 787 Congolese asylums seekers arrived in Burundi in April, bringing the total number of asylum seekers registred during the first four months of this year to 2327 individuals.

  • 3 convoys of 411 Congolese refugees were organized from the transit centres of Cishemere and Kajaga to the new camp in Kavumu.

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Kenya + 10 others
Eastern Africa Humanitarian Bulletin, Issue 25, 22 April - 22 May

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Over 170 people have died and 225,000 displaced as a result of flash flooding

  • Food Security: Aid agencies urged to adopt ‘no regrets response’ to build on regional food security gains

  • Renewed attempts made to address cross border and incountry insecurity in eastern Africa, namely in Somalia, DRC and Kenya.

  • Regional Migration: An estimated 9.15 million people are currently displaced in the region: 2,012,531 are refugees and 7,141,442 are IDPs

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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UN chief visits Goma after deadly fighting

05/23/2013 11:10 GMT

by Pierre BRIAND

GOMA, DR Congo, May 23, 2013 (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrived in the DR Congo flashpoint city of Goma on Thursday after three days of sometimes deadly fighting between rebels and government forces that ended months of calm in the volatile east of the country.

Ban's brief visit to the mineral-rich troublespot comes a day after he and the World Bank chief made a fresh push for peace and development in the region.

Agence France-Presse:

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