A group of people rest on the patio of a school near the Kibumba refugee camp in October 19, 2008. Some 200,000 people have been displaced due to renewed violence in the Congolese province of Nord-Kivu and conditions are deteriorating, the United Nations food aid agency warned Friday. (AFP/File/Walter Astrada)Thousands Displaced In DR Congo -- BBC News
The UN says about 200,000 people have been displaced by renewed fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two months.
Previously the United Nations had reported half that number.
Concern has been rising in the east of DR Congo, where the army has been battling fighters loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda.
Up to two million people are thought to have been displaced in the Kivu area since 2007, the UN says.
The UN says this vast displacement means many people are malnourished and some were dying of hunger.
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My Comment: This war has killed and displaced more people than Darfur and Somalia combined. But the media coverage is almost non-existant.