Thanks to InstaPundithere I found out that:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for an end to the looting that has forced it to suspend food distribution across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), …
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WFP has been providing 150,000 people in South Kivu province with 3,500 tonnes of food a month through nutritional centres and hospitals, as well as to food-for-work and other programmes.
Thousands of Congolese attacked UN offices and peacekeeping bases yesterday, angry that fewer than 1,000 UN peacekeepers were unable to prevent 2,000 to 4,000 rebels from seizing Bukavu, South Kivu's provincial capital, on Wednesday. The DRC's military in Bukavu unexpectedly collapsed, the chief of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations said.
Fifteen DRC nationals working for WFP remained in the city, most of them hiding with their families for a second day. The last two WFP international staff members in Bukavu were taken yesterday by a helicopter owned by the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) to the north-eastern city of Goma.
…WFP staff members were told to stay at home for their safety. … a mob burned down the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office and smashed shop windows.
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More than 2,000 Banyamulenge from the Bukavu area fled into neighbouring Rwanda over the past couple of weeks, …
You can’t make this up. Refugees fleeing TO RWANDA?
And, by the way, this is not found in the “all the news that’s fit to print” press. Guess it doesn’t fit. Sigh.
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