Democratic Republic of the Congo: Insecurity and Displacement (Apr 2010)

The country is experiencing one of the world's worst Bas- and Haut-Uélé Districts
humanitarian crises with over 1.9 million people The Lord’s Resistance Army Dec 2007-Mar 2010:
(LRA) is a rebel group
internally displaced by violence perpetrated by 3,500
17,500 movement formed in 1986
1,796 civilians killed 5

refugees5
various armed groups.1 in CAR* refugees5
in Sudan*
against the Government of 2,377 abducted (807
Uganda. Driven out of children)5
CENTRAL AFRICAN Uganda in 2002 and later
REPUBLIC (CAR) SUDAN
Southern Sudan, the LRA 2009 2010
18,000 Bangui Garamba operates from the Garamba
refugees2 300 332 killed
Equateur Province 281,000 IDPs* Natlonal Park National Park in DR Congo
in CAR**
since 2005, attacking civilians 200
Since October 2009, some
192,000 have fled2 in the Orientale province and 100
CAMEROON Dongo Bas-Uélé Haut-Uélé making incursions into CAR
inter-ethnic armed clashes 0
arising from disputes over
Enyele and Southern Sudan.3 Jan Dec
33,000 IDPs* Ituri Area with Lord’s Resistance
farming and fishing rights. UGANDA
167,000 IDPs* Army
Tensions have spread to most Buburu
114,000
parts of Equateur, with the refugees2 Orientale
army launching an offensive Equateur Ituri District
in Congo**
against the militia.3 Mbandaka The Ituri conflict started as a
Nord- land dispute between the
The civilians who found GABON CONGO 1,418,000 IDPs* Kivu
refuge in the Congo have agriculturalist Lendu and the
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pastoralist Hema; and was

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settled in more than 100 sites RWANDA Disclaimer:

O uban

along a 500 km stretch of the particularly intense between The boundaries and names shown
Oubangui River.4 1999 and 2003. Despite and the designations used on all
Sud- ongoing military operations maps do not imply official
BURUNDI endorsement or acceptance by the
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Kivu against remnant militia
270 killed in Dongo in Brazzaville
groups, overall security has
United Nations.
Creation date: 20 Apr 2010
Oct 20094 OF THE CONGO
improved over the past Data sources: UNCS, RGC, ACLED,
(DR Congo) UNITED REPUBLIC OCHA, USGS, Natural Earth
Area with Enyele insurgents Kinshasa OF TANZANIA years.5
References:
15,000 IDPs* Area with Front de Résistance 1
OCHA. DRC Key Messages - Issue #2.
Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI) and Jan 2010.
2
Security Council. Thirty-first report of
Front Populaire pour le Justice the Secretary-General on the United
au Congo (FPJC) Nations Organization Mission in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. 30
Mar 2010.
AT L A N T I C Nord- and Sud-Kivu Provinces 3
UN News. UN takes new security steps
OCEAN after deadly attack in north-western DR
The conflict in and army elements being Congo. 7 Apr 2010.
4
OCHA. Consolidated Appeal for
the Kivus is fuelled by vast accused of mass rape and Republic of Congo 2010. 4 Mar 2010.
5
natural resources in the other human rights abuses.3 OCHA. Humanitarian Situation in the
Orientale Province of the DRC -
region, including gold.6 Snapshot report. 19 Apr 2010.

100km ANGOLA The army, backed by the UN 160 women raped per week 7
6
IRIN. Analysis: Fighting for peace in
DRC's Kivu region. 22 Feb 2010.
7
OCHA. Humanitarian Situation in the

Area with refugees from Equateur Province

Organization Mission in the
DR Congo (MONUC), is
Major incidents fighting mainly
Rwandan Hutu rebels
*As of 31 Mar 2010 (FDLR) and a
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) data provided by OCHA in DR Congo
collection of other
Number of IDPs aggregated for Bas- and Haut-Uélé, Nord- and Sud- Kivu
**Nov 2009 - Feb 2010 insurgents, with both rebel
50 attacks against humanitar-
ian actors since Jan 20107
Forces Démocratiques de
Libération du Rwanda
(FDLR) and other insurgents
Kivus and Maniema Province - Snapshot
report. 19 Apr 2010.
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