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Kalehe floods 2023 South Kivu, DRC: The
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the DRC Bintou Keita was in Kalehe in South Kivu on 18 May 2023, where a natural disaster claimed the lives of several people on 4 May 2023. She was accompanied by the MONUSCO Police
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473:"DR Congo â Many Feared Missing After Landslide in North Kivu"
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281:"Floods from heavy rainfall kill at least 129 in Rwanda"
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841:Afghanistan
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1496:Categories
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