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‘Common game plan’ needed to address DR Congo displacement crisis: A Resident Coordinator blog |

·July 9, 2022·6 min read

“The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the largest population of internally displaced people on the African continent: 5.9 million people, including 700,000 newly displaced people this year. The DRC is also hosting over 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers (mainly from Burundi, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan). The factors...

Actions to stem violence against women and girls ‘needed now more than ever’ |

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·June 24, 2022·3 min read

“Nearly one in two women reported that they, or a woman they know, experienced some form of violence,” Amina Mohammed said at the Commonwealth says No More Violence Against Women event, taking place as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) gets underway in the Rwandan capital. Pointing to rising...

Urgent support needed for 14,000 who fled following Burkina Faso massacre |

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·June 19, 2022·2 min read

According to an alert from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, almost 16,000 mostly women and children, have been displaced to Dori, after gunmen killed at least 79 people in the town of Seytenga, which is close to the border with Niger. Door-to-door killers “The new arrivals in Dori gave accounts of...