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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 31 August 2007 A United Nations fact-finding mission is in Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region to assess the food, water and health needs of civilians caught amid a military campaign against local separatist rebels. Human rights gr
More Foreign Civilians Killed in Iraqi Drive-By Shootings Nick Simeone A day after Spain's incoming prime minister said he plans to pull his country's troops out of Iraq, President Bush is urging othe
Nick Simeone In Iraq, the FBI is involved in trying to secure the release of civilians from 12 countries who have been taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents . Four Italian security guards are the latest f
The U.N. refugee agency says it is concerned about the safety of tens of thousands of displaced civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting between government and rebel forces threatens North Kivu's provincial capital Goma. Lis
By Phuong Tran Air Mountains, Niger 26 February 2008 In Niger, a desert rebellion in the northern half of the country has displaced thousands of civilians. Rebels have said those who remain and do not join them will be considered enemies. And the arm
By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee 28 June 2006 Hundreds of people have died in Sri Lanka this year as the government and rebels of the Tamil Tiger guerrilla group slip back into what some are calling an undeclared civil war. Leaders from both sides say
A coalition of more than 60 humanitarian and human rights organizations says widespread violence continues to threaten civilians in Eastern Congo, despite a peace agreement signed six months ago. Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in
Mali Security Measures Hinder Humanitarian Access to Civilians Hannatou Bocoum made it to Bamako Saturday, 10 days after her town, Konna, became the first to fall to Islamist rebels in this most recent offensive. The town was later bombed by the Fren
M23 Rebels Urged to Protect Civilians Humanitarian agencies in the eastern DRC are scrambling to locate displaced civilians and provide assistance following the M23 rebel groups takeover of Goma. For years, the town has been the center of aid operati
Afghan Civilians Bear the Brunt of War Casualties Statistics posted on iCasualties.org, an independent monitoring group, show that more than 2,700 foreign troops have died during the past 10 years in Afghanistan. But since the start of the decade-lon
On Ukraine Battle Fringes, Civilians Struggle for Normalcy KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE While battles rage daily in some parts of eastern Ukraine, not far away -- in areas the government took back from the Russian-backed rebels last summer -- people are doing
Six More Civilians Killed by Suspected Insurgents in Iraq Nick Simeone In Iraq, at least six more Iraqi civilians have been killed by suspected insurgents, three of them when a bomb exploded outside a
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 21 February 2008 The United Nations Mission in Congo says it has evidence rebels killed around 30 civilians in eastern Congo in an incident in mid-January. The region, a long-standing site of instability in Congo, was then in t
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 17 July 2006 watch Casualities report Lebanon's peace has been shattered, warplanes have bombed the Gaza strip, and rockets are falling from the sky over Israel. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports on the plight of people o
By Selah Hennessy Goma, DRC 14 December 2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is visiting eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR) Friday. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in eastern Congo have been forced to flee their homes sin
Civilians Bear Brunt of Sudan, South Sudan Violence A humanitarian group says unless South Sudan has a sustained period of peace, it will never be able to provide the necessary infrastructure, healthcare and education for its people. World Relief is
The United Nations says the Lord's Resistance Army is continuing to attack civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent international offensive against the Ugandan rebel group. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 November 2009 The U.N. refugee agency says it is extremely concerned about the recent escalation of the conflict in northern Yemen between the government and rebel Houthis. The UNHCR says there has been a significant increa
KABUL,March 23 (Xinhua) -- Criminal charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) were formally preferred Friday against U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, who killed 17 Afghan civilians earlier this month, said the U.S. forces in Afg
By Selah Hennessy London 13 October 2009 UN peacekeepers (R) pass a Rwandan Hutu rebel (L) as they patrol in FDLR rebel-held territory in eastern Congo (File) Aid groups said Tuesday that the human cost of a UN-backed military operation in the Democ