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Congolese citizens accounted for over 56% of the 114,461 refugees there as of November, according to the U.N. refugee agency. The Congolese government did not immediately respond to a request for ...
The First Congo War (1996-97) in the DRC drove many Congolese to leave their families at home to seek asylum in the U.S. as war refugees. Only a few families migrated to the U.S. together. Some refugees were Tutsi who sought refuge from the Rwandan genocide in the DRC before arriving in the U.S. [13]
The issue has been ongoing for many years, with millions of displaced persons forced from their homes, often repeatedly. [3] The term internally displaced persons (IDPs) refers to movements of people within the DRC, which are a distinct population from refugees who fled to the DRC from other countries, such as the 1.2 million Rwandan refugees ...
UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
It currently hosts 171,387 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. [7] Although many refugees in the area have been living there for several years, recent conflicts in nearby countries are increasing the number of arrivals per day.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said that some 42 suspected mpox cases have so far been reported in refugee camps and transit centres in South Kivu, eastern Congo where there are nearly 2 million ...
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DR Congo Central African Republic: LRA: Ongoing. Small scale LRA activity continues in eastern DRC, and the CAR; Dongo Rebellion (2009) DR Congo Rwanda: RPD: Victory. Rwandan-Congolese forces recaptured Dongo; Katanga Insurgency (2011–present) DR Congo Benin Egypt: Mai Mai Kata Katanga: Ongoing. Exodus of around 600,000 refugees; M23 ...