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Ushahidi launches website on eastern DR Congo conflict

A UN armored-personnel carrier with heavy gun, attached to the peacekeeping mission known by its acronym, MONUC, glides by a Congolese woman just south of the flashpoint village of Rutshuru, which lies roughly 65 km north of the provincial city of Goma, o Les Neuhaus/IRIN
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    Ushahidi, the citizen reporting platform and network which came to prominence during the post-election violence in Kenya in early 2008, has launched a new conflict monitoring tool for eastern DRC. The Ushahidi web platform compiles information from mobile phone and field reports relating to the conflict in North Kivu. Ushahidi (meaning “testimony” in Swahili) is attempting to track the changing humanitarian response to the crisis.



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