More than 100,000 people have fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa in the past week. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, reports on the matter.
The rebel group M23, supported by Congo’s neighboring country Rwanda, took over the town of Masisi in Congo on Saturday. Rwanda claims the areas captured by M23 were previously held by Hutu forces linked to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.
In the past 30 years, the eastern part of the Congo has been ravaged by several acts of violence by local and foreign armed groups.