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Top UNHCR official makes landmark visit to displaced in North Kivu
13 Jun 2007 Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Judy Cheng-Hopkins on Wednesday became the most senior UNHCR official to visit the hundreds of thousands of largely neglected displaced people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province. -
UNHCR helps Congolese refugees return from Mozambique
12 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency has begun an airlift to repatriate refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Mozambique. A total 112 refugees were flown on Monday and Tuesday to Kigoma in Tanzania, where they will board a boat and cross Lake Tanganyika to DRC. -
UNHCR fears for Congolese civilians caught in violence
9 May 2007 The UN refugee agency has called on all armed groups in Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province to immediately cease attacks on civilians. The continuing instability has prompted an estimated 123,000 Congolese to flee their homes in the past three months. -
UNHCR launches plan to help Congolese refugees return from Zambia
3 May 2007 More than 400 Congolese refugees who had sheltered in Zambia headed back to their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday as the UN refugee agency launched a three-year voluntary repatriation programme. -
UNHCR hands over housing for 1,000 landless Burundians
30 Apr 2007 Some 1,000 Burundians, including 800 refugee returnees, have moved into new housing specially built for them by the UN refugee agency in the village of Gatere near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). -
Violent clashes in eastern DRC force thousands from their homes
25 Apr 2007 Renewed fighting between rebel and government forces as well as widespread looting in the troubled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. UNHCR is calling for civilians and the displaced to be protected. -
First repatriation movement to DRC's Katanga province arrives amidst tropical downpour
13 Apr 2007 A ferry chartered by the UN refugee agency has docked after crossing Lake Tanganyika with 494 returning refugees, marking the first organised voluntary repatriation from Tanzania to Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
London photo exhibitions to highlight refugee issues in Democratic Republic of the Congo
11 Apr 2007 The UN refugee agency and the World Food Programme will later this month open an exhibition in London of powerful images of displaced people and returnees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
UN agencies join forces in preventing HIV in Zambian refugee camps
29 Mar 2007 Two United Nations agencies collaborated this week on a programme to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among refugees, with the UN Population Fund donating 1.2 million condoms to UNHCR for refugees in Zambia.