Photo gallery: Displaced from Congo: hundreds of Congolese families spent a night without cover at the Bukanga refugee camp in Uganda as humanitarian organizations struggled to set up tents. The Congolese were displaced by fighting between the army and rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) last week. They traveled to the Bukanga transit camp in Bundibugyo, 238 miles southwest of Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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On Tuesday, Congolese government forces supported by helicopters attacked another rebel group calls “M23” near Goma, a city of one million people bordering Rwanda. It was the third day of heavy fighting that has forced hundreds of villagers to flee their homes and raised tensions with Rwanda.
The UN’s intervention: The United Nations deployed a new force to attack rebel groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 3,000-strong Intervention Brigade has begun patrols but not yet engaged in combat. The UN warned it would block any attack on Goma, which was briefly captured by rebels in November. Both Rwanda and Uganda, which have in the past backed insurgents in Congo, deny any support for M23. The U.N. plans to put unarmed surveillance drones over Congo.
Rwanda’s government reacts: Rwanda has accused the UN’s new intervention force in Congo of discussing a collaboration with Hutu rebels linked to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, thereby jeopardizing regional peace efforts.
Millions of people have died from the violence, disease and food crises since the 1990s as foreign-backed rebel groups fought for control of eastern Congo’s rich deposits of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and uranium, destabilizing the Great Lakes region at the heart of Africa.
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Photos by: REUTERS/James Akena
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