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Congo in Crisis: Human Catastrophe Unfolds
The situation in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is critical.
Thousands were fleeing as rebel forces advanced on the city of Goma in eastern DRC. Rebel soldiers were on the edge of the city as a fragile ceasefire held.
The crisis is rapidly unfolding into a humanitarian disaster on a huge scale. Reports of random killings, rape and other atrocities are widespread.
Right now, the situation in Goma is incredibly tense, with many Congolese upset at the inability of the United Nations peacekeeping force to protect them. The 17,000-strong force has been unable to halt the violence in a region that has been devastated by two civil wars.
The conflict in the Congo is one of the world’s most under-reported catastrophes. In the past 12 years, an estimated 5 million people have died from malnutrition and disease spurred on by the conflict.
“I don’t know what is going to happen,” said one aid worker, “but I think that Goma is going to fall.”
Read more about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (pdf)
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