DRC: Thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced in conflict

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DRC: Thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced in conflict  Since January, the ongoing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed the lives of around 7,000 people  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/02/25/drc-thousands-dead-and-hundreds-of-thousands-displaced-in-conflict  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Since January, the ongoing violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed the

00:05lives of around 7,000 people, Prime Minister Julius Ndominwa Tluka reported at the UN Human

00:11Rights Council in Geneva.

00:15The deadly conflict has left around 450,000 people without shelter after the destruction

00:21of 90 displacement camps.

00:25The advance of the M23 rebel group, which has captured key territories and valuable

00:30mineral deposits, marked the worst escalation in over a decade.

00:34Tluka called on the international community to impose dissuasive sanctions as the region

00:39faces widespread displacement, summary executions and horrific human rights abuses.

00:48UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the devastating situation, saying that human

00:53rights are being suffocated around the world.

00:59The DLC government has faced criticism for its military strategy and back-to-back losses

01:05in north and south Kibu provinces.

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