Renewed Fighting In DRC Sends Thousands Fleeing To Burundi

January 08, 03 by IDEX Online Newsroom

Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) South Kivu region has sent a new wave of Congolese refugees into neighboring Burundi.

Over the past 12 days more than 8,500 Congolese have fled the war-ravaged country, the United Nations reports.

The new fighting erupted December 26 South Kivu. By New Year's Eve, it had engulfed the strategic town of Uvira on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, sending thousands of refugees across the border. Burundi already shelters more than 12,000 Congolese refugees from an earlier outbreak of hostilities last October.

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Renewed Fighting In DRC Sends Thousands Fleeing To Burundi

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