Goma – A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017, warns UNICEF.
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Efforts to vaccinate “zero-dose” children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be accelerated thanks to new funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s… Read More
UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs denounced torture, rape and sexual exploitation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in a recent press conference.
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For 96 hours, the orders kept coming. By the end, 287 people were dead, 387 women and children had been raped, and 13 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had been robb… Read More
United Nations, May 24 (Always First) With a continuing emergency response to the heavy rains in Congo, the official death toll has reached 443, UN humanitarians said.
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The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the security situation in eastern Congo has "deteriorated considerably" in recent months… Read More
Tens of thousands of displaced people have gathered for safety on a remote hilltop in Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.They are seeking refuge from the persistent, viol… Read More
This aerial photograph, taken on June 4, 2021, shows Mount Nyiragongo and one of the lava flows into the northern districts of Goma. Alexis Huguet for InsiderMt. Nyiragongo erupted on May 22… Read More
Hello Everyone, I'm Ugur Gallenkus from Istanbul, Turkey. I create collages juxtaposing two images, including the work of some of today’s most intrepid photojournalists.
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Sebastião Salgado – Ecuador, 1982
Sebastião Salgado & Migration
Six years. That is the amount of time Sebastião Salgado spent in capturing the story of migrati… Read More
SITUATION IN NUMBERS
4.1 millionInternally Displaced Persons (IDPs) country-wide (OCHA Nov. 2017)
526,543refugees in DRC (UNHCR Oct. 2017)
49,619cases of cholera cases since January 2017 (M… Read More
The current outbreak in Congo is now the second biggest in history and has so far infected at least 450 people and killed at least 270 of them, according to WHO and Congo health officials.&n… Read More