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
before this ok but this part of congo mr pollack 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 center of ebola inside the d.r. see is the north kivu present province but also in italy there have been cases and also with insecurity with displacement the fears for this disease to spread is there but what we have seen is small numbers of refugees have been arriving in uganda let s not forget that the border between the r.c. and uganda is huge it s poorest and refugee movements are smaller in respect of of
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 center of ebola inside the sea is the north kivu present province but also in italy there have been cases and also with insecurity with displacement the fears for this disease to spread is there but what we have seen is small numbers of refugees have been arriving in uganda let s not forget that the border between the r.c. and uganda is huge it s poorest and refugee movements are smaller in respect of of others back and forth movement ok but up a large spokesman for the office of the u.n. h.c.r.