Reports

By Issa Sikiti da Silva BAMAKO , Mar 22 2013 (IPS) - One of Amina Diallo’s sons, 14-year-old Salif, has been missing since August last year. She thinks Islamists kidnapped him while he was on his way…

NAIROBI, 21 March 2013 (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province are working to increase their support for hundreds of thousands of displaced people living outside formal camps with…

By Raquel Wexler and Cyriaque Ngoboka UNICEF and partners are making sure that children who have fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and crossed into a transit centre in Rwanda find safe spaces to…

L’UNICEF et ses partenaires veillent à ce que les enfants qui ont fui les violences en République démocratique du Congo et se sont réfugiés dans un centre de transit au Rwanda disposent d’espaces sûrs pour pouvoir…

1.1 THE DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL IN WEST AFRICA DRC has been working in West Africa since 1998, to support and assist displaced people in southeast Liberia. Since 2006, DRC has opted for a regional strategy in response to…

By Passy Mubalama GOMA, DR Congo, Mar 12 2013 (IPS) - A street in Goma’s city centre, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been nicknamed “the ward of death” because…

Intense violence once again looks to repeat a history of conflict in DRC. Here is a personal letter from our CEO to DFID’s Minister responsible for Africa imploring for funding to be released quickly and prevent…

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TOP PRIORITIES The projections and analysis in the 2013 Consolidated Appeal remain relevant, including the strategic objectives. The humanitarian community in Mali must act to: Ensure an effective response to vulnerable people’s most critical needs…

Highlights Since the military intervention in Mali in January 2013, Burkina Faso has recorded some 5,000 new refugees, bringing the current caseload to 47,676 individuals of which almost 26,500 are children. UNICEF is pursuing interventions child protection…

By Michelle Marrion MBUJI MAYI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 26 February 2013 – The roads I travel to get to the Matempu diamond mine, nestled in the Bakwa Tshimuna area of Kasai Oriental’s capital city Mbuji…