North-East Congo: UN Agency Says More Than 300,000 Flee From New Ethnic Violence - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 18, 2019
United Nation refugee agency UNHCRsaid on today that more than 300,000 people had reportedly fled their homes inNorth-East Congo since early June as violence flared up again between the Hemaand Lendu ethnic groups.
UNCHR spokesman Babar Baloch, madethis known at a news conference in Geneva.
The UN agency has received reportsfrom local sources in 125 locations in Ituri province but has currently noaccess to most of the affected areas.
Attacks between the two communitieshad already uprooted many people in late 2017 and early 2018, however thesituation had calmed down since then.
The current mass displacement ishappening in three of Ituri’s five administrative units: Djugu, Mahagi andIrumu.
Numerous rebel groups are alsoactive in the region, primarily fighting over the area’s rich mineralresources.