This is new news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes they watched as their fill of people were hacked to death with machetes and their homes burnt to the proud well hear from the congolese people now just plain stop that interest me violence in the region this as the u. N. Save that same violence has seen 300000 people flee the country just in the last 2 weeks. And kenyas Counter Terror tactics the country has been known to react to terror attacks with Excessive Force everything from object area to force to disappearances but it is making the country safe from external threats. Im christine window while come to news africa im glad youre choosing day and we
begin today with a warning from the u. N. Of a growing humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic Of Congo the uns Refugee Agency says more than 300000 people have fled their homes in the past 2 weeks off to a new outbreak of interest. The most recent flare up off islands in the d. R. Sea is centered on if to restate and that
Groups is 2 decades old it started in 1909 in 2000 that was the 1st round off while ins and then we saw a recurrence in 2017 and early 2018 when some 350000 people were displaced by the clashes the numbers were seeing now more than 300000 within 2 weeks is unprecedented. The democratic republic of congo has a complex displacement picture but the rate at which this displacement has happened is unprecedented and precedented you say but youre talking about a long history of rivalry between these 2 groups and we know that theres a lot of people that have been displaced as a result of interesting violence in this country why is the congolese government seemingly not able to have the situation under control. As far as we understand this situation the military has gone in to bring things
under control but as far as we understand it and as far as people who have been displaced displaced they ringback talk what communities forming selfdefense groups unleashing revenge attacks and counterattacks
as far as we understand this situation the military has gone in to bring things under control but as far as we understand it and as far as people who have been displaced displaced they ringback talk what communities forming self-defense drop unleashing revenge attacks and counterattacks against each other targeting civilians horrifying accounts of killing maiming targeting people sexual assaults and rape this is all happening and as it continues the fears are that more people could be affected you are now the 300000 is a really comes away to estimate there could be war people who would be affected by this and most of these people who are arriving women children and men majority of them are with host communities some have arrived in the displacement side which are already there and caring for the displaced who have been displaced within you truly
under control but as far as we understand it and as far as people who have been displaced displaced they ringback talk what communities forming self-defense groups unleashing revenge attacks and counterattacks against each other targeting civilians horrifying accounts of killing maiming targeting people sexual assaults and rapes this is all happening and as it continues the fears are that more people could be affected you are now the 300000 is a really conservative estimate there could be war people who would be affected by this and most of these people who are investment children and men majority of them are with host communities some have arrived in the displacement side which are already there and caring for the displaced who have been displaced within you truly before this ok but this part of congo misstep a large way away with this is this violence has broken out is the same region where
civilians horrifying accounts of killing maiming targeting people sexual assaults and rapes this is all happening and as it continues the fears are that more people could be affected you are now the 300000 is a really conservative estimate there could be war people who would be affected by this and most of these people who are arriving vivan children and men majority of them are with host communities some have arrived in the displacement side which are already there and caring for the displaced who have been displaced within you truly before this ok this part of congo midst of a lot to a way with this is this violence has broken out is the same region where we have the ebola outbreak raging what then happens to countries like uganda that s going to receive the bulk of these people that are fleeing the north eastern congo what is the what is the that the threats there. the man at the