SOUTH AFRICA: Foreigners (still) beware
CAPE TOWN, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, she heard the armed men outside shout: "We're going to kill you because you don't want to listen."
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DRC: Thousands flee Kiwanja amid fears of attack
KINSHASA, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have fled transit sites in Kiwanja, northeast of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, amid fears of an imminent militia attack.
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DRC: Healthcare crisis as cholera, malnutrition rise
NAIROBI, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Many of the displaced in the eastern province of North Kivu urgently need healthcare amid an increase in the number of cholera, gunshot injury and malnutrition cases being reported, according to aid agencies.
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DRC-UGANDA: Refugees seek a better life over the border
DRC-UGANDA BORDER, ISHASHA, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Claude Molumba has not worked in more a month. He is a primary school teacher but it is not safe for him – or his students – to assemble for classes. Just last week, when he realised that more than 300 people in his small village had died, he decided to leave DRC and cross the border to Uganda.
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DRC-UGANDA: "There is no one and no tribe that is safe"
ISHASHA, 20 November 2008 (IRIN) - Jacquelyn Ingenda Himana is one of 12,000 Congolese refugees who thought her chances for survival might be better in Uganda than in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting among rebel factions and the army has displaced more than 250,000 people.
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DRC: Rape crisis set to worsen amid Kivu chaos
NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed “the worst place in the world to be a woman” by aid workers.
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In brief: Ushahidi launches website on eastern DR Congo conflict
NAIROBI, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Ushahidi, the citizen reporting platform and network which came to prominence during the post-election violence in Kenya in early 2008, has launched a new conflict monitoring tool for eastern DRC.
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DRC: 150,000 children miss school as violence continues in the east
NAIROBI, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced most schools in Rutshuru territory to close, leaving an estimated 150,000 children out of class, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
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DRC: Agencies cannot reach IDPs trapped by fighting
GOMA, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of civilians forced from their homes by fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are still beyond the reach of international aid, two weeks after the launch of a rebel offensive.
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DRC: Recruitment of child soldiers rising
KINSHASA, 11 November 2008 (IRIN) - As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), child recruitment by rebels in the combat zones has been reported, UN and human rights activists have said.
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