Ituri in a sentence

Since June, Congo has recorded at least 65 cases of the plague, including at least 10 deaths, in the eastern Ituri province according to Ituri provincial chief of health Dr. Louis Tsolu.

Although Monusco has disengaged from South Kivu, escalating violence in North Kivu and Ituri has prompted calls from Congolese authorities to delay the mission’s exit.

Just before Saturday’s attack, a delegation of former militia leaders from the 1999-2003 conflict had arrived in Ituri on a peace mission at the request of President Felix Tshisekedi.

The experts said Ituri’s capital city Bunia remains a gold trading and smuggling hub where eight gold-buying houses each purchased a minimum of 2 to 3 kilograms of gold per week, according to three traders and a mining official.

Through his experiments, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the mid-1990s, Thomas had assisted in establishing nearly four 10-hectare research plots in the Ituri Rainforest in the region.

An internally displaced Congolese woman and her child sit inside a makeshift shelter at a camp for victims of ethnic violence in Ituri, Congo, June 24, 2019.

DR Congo’s eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu sit on the borders with Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

Ebola was declared in the DRC's conflict-ridden North Kivu and Ituri provinces on Aug. 1, 2018.

Most are fleeing across Lake Albert from Ituri province, where renewed clashes between the Hema and Lendu groups have displaced a massive 300,000 people this month.

Recently, 23 organisations and Ituri residents petitioned Uganda's environmental watchdog National Environment Management Authority (Nema) together with DR Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi and Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.

Since August 2018, authorities have struggled to contain the spread of Ebola, which has in the eastern North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

According to international Catholic charity Caritas, another 49 people were killed in fresh in ethnic clashes between the Lendu and Hema in Ituri.

In 2003, a flareup of violence in Ituri triggered Operation Artemis, a three-month operation by the European Union — its first military mission outside Europe.

Since the outbreak erupted on August 1, 103 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola have been identified in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, including 63 deaths, the health ministry said in an overnight update.

The conflict in Ituri is part of a broader background of violent and instability in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The species ranges from the Maiko forest northward to the Ituri forest, then through the river basins of the Rubi, Lake Tele and Ebola to the west and the Ubangi river further north.