Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks

Humanitarians are urgently scaling up aid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where an escalating crisis is again unfolding, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday.

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Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks
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