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
weapons we could not do anything we had to watch as our villages burned and our people died. in fact i myself lost many members of my family and also of my wife s family and one of my sister in laws was killed with her 5 children. the series of attacks in the 2 re province has mostly targeted him or her to us who ve long been in conflict with linda farmers of a grazing rights and political representation although the exact identity of the assailants remains unclear. i m now joined by the spokesman for the office of the un 8 c.r. coming to us from geneva welcome to d.w. africa let s 1st start establishing what is causing the conflicts between these ethnic groups the the hem of people and the lendu people
to us who ve long been in conflict with linda farmers of a grazing rights and political representation although the exact identity of the assailant remains unclear. i m now joined by the spokesman for the office of the un h.c.r. is coming to us from geneva welcome to d.w. africa let s 1st start establishing what is causing the conflicts between these ethnic groups the the hem of people and the lendu people of the rivalry between these 2 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 we re seeing now more than