الجهاد الاسلامي: لقد تجاوز الاحتلال كل الحدود في مشروع الضم الفعلي لمناطق الضفة الغربية
GENEVA (Reuters) – Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
Some 450,0000 people are without shelter after 90 displacement camps were destroyed, Judith Suminwa Tuluka added.
The M23's advance is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo.
Rwanda rejects allegations from Congo, the United Nations and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops.
(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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