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Fight Against Malaria Continues
World Malaria Day was celebrated in Kinshasa this Friday 25 April 2008 in the DRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by the DRC Ministry of Health and its national and international partners. A call was made for better partnership and coordination among the various actors in the fight against the epidemic, which kills thousands of Congolese every year.
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Hundreds Flee New Violence in Strife-Torn Region, UN Agency Says
Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) North Kivu province today has forced the United Nations refugee agency to halt the distribution of aid to internally displaced persons and to call off a drive to register newly displaced people in the Rutshuru area.
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Dozens Feared Dead in Congo Plane Crash
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) — More than 70 people were killed when a Congolese domestic airliner taking off from the eastern city of Goma crashed into a crowded market district and caught fire, witnesses and officials said.
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Torrential rains kill 15 and leave hundreds homeless
KINSHASA, 8 April 2008 (IRIN) - Fifteen people have died and hundreds more were left homeless after days of torrential rains in Kasai Occidental and Bandundu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a humanitarian official told IRIN.
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DRC: Fear, uncertainty deter North Kivu IDPs from going home
GOMA, 26 March 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of thousands of internallydisplaced persons (IDPs) in North Kivu Province in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC) are reluctant to go back to their villages forfear of attacks despite a truce signed in January between thegovernment and various armed groups.
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