GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced 150,000 children out of school, U.N. officials said Friday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Overstretched United Nations peacekeepers say they are taking advantage of a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo to aid starving refugees.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Humanitarian officials say they're worried whether 50,000 refugees forced to flee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo can survive long in the bush.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Refugees fleeing civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been pouring into Uganda, overwhelming border villages, U.N. relief officials said Friday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The rebel forces of Gen. Laurent Nkunda sat outside Goma as a cease-fire remained in place Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
BRAZZAVILLE, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 29 (UPI) -- French soldiers have been accused by the Swedish military of torturing civilians while on Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo's call for a dialogue to resolve underlying conflicts in eastern Congo was welcomed, the U.S. State Department said Monday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Palestinian refugees caught a suspected top commander of a militant group hiding near the besieged Nahr al-Bared camp in Lebanon.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A group of Israeli university students has sparked a move in parliament to persuade the government not to send Sudanese refugees to Egypt.
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (UPI) -- The world's refugee population grew by 14 percent last year, largely due to people fleeing the war in Iraq, said a U.N. report released Wednesday.
KASANGULU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency Tuesday announced repatriation of 250 Angolan refugees living outside refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
PARIS, July 18 (UPI) -- Six men, most of them senior Congolese military officers, are being tried in Brazzaville for their alleged roles in a 1999 massacre.
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 5 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency says it plans to repatriate thousands of Democratic Republic of the Congo citizens from neighboring Republic of the Congo.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The United Nations says thousands of refugees, many of them ill, are fleeing fighting in the eastern Congo and pouring into neighboring Uganda.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The United Nations says mutinous Congolese troops killed at least 30 civilians last month in revenge for the slayings of three fellow-soldiers.
