DR CONGO: Militia violence forces 80,000 to flee home

About 80,000 people have fled fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and a new rebel coalition, the United Nations said on Tuesday, joining the millions already uprooted in Africa’s worst displacement crisis. The latest fighting broke out in South Kivu province’s Fizi territory, in the eastern part of the country. Government troops clashed […]

About 80,000 people have fled fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and a new rebel coalition, the United Nations said on Tuesday, joining the millions already uprooted in Africa’s worst displacement crisis.

The latest fighting broke out in South Kivu province’s Fizi territory, in the eastern part of the country. Government troops clashed with the National Coalition of the People for the Sovereignty of Congo (CNPSC), the U.N. Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a new report.