DRC: UN agency helps thousands of IDPs return home

Some 1,600 internally displaced people (IDPs) began their journey home along the mighty River Congo, from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the provinces of Equateur and Orientale. In a statement, Jens Laerke, the information officer in the post-conflict unit of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said the IDPs boarded a Congolese naval vessel at the Kinshasa harbour, marking the start of the operational phase of a joint UN pilot project aimed at providing protection and security for 67,554 IDPs.