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DRC-UGANDA: Deadly LRA attacks prompt exodus in northeastern DRC
KINSHASA Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their villages in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo after 189 people were killed in attacks blamed on the Lord?s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, according to the UN?s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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DRC: Ebola suspected as 11 die in Kasai Occidental (corrected version)
KINSHASA Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Eleven people have died in a remote area of central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where the presence of the Ebola virus has been confirmed, according to health officials.
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DRC: Nine die, dozens infected by suspected haemorrhagic fever
KINSHASA Wednesday, December 24, 2008 (IRIN) - An outbreak of a suspected haemorrhagic fever has killed nine people and infected 92 more in Kasai Occidental, according to medical personnel.
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AFRICA: New hope for malaria vaccine
DAKAR Monday, December 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The world?s most clinically advanced malaria vaccine trials have given new hope in the fight against the disease, which in sub-Saharan Africa kills a child every 30 seconds.
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In Brief: IRIN writer wins award for DRC report
NAIROBI Tuesday, December 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Congolese journalist and IRIN contributor Eddy Isango has won an award for a report about the sexual abuse of Congolese women deported from Angola. Isango, based in Kinshasa, won the prize for the best piece of reportage on a health issue in the inaugural Journalism for Development awards, organised by the Democratic Republic of Congo office of the UN's Development Programme (UNDP).
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