Map of DR Congo, locating the province of Nord Kivu. A UN convoy has brought desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the rebel-held town of Rutshuru as aid agencies begin tracking down more than a million people trapped by fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Aid Convoy Finds East Congo Refugee
Camps Empty -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Camps Empty -- Yahoo News/Reuters
RUTSHURU, Congo (Reuters) – A U.N. relief convoy which entered a rebel-captured zone of east Congo on Monday for the first time since heavy fighting last week found deserted refugee camps emptied of their tens of thousands of occupants.
"All the camps are empty. They have all left. All the shelters have been destroyed ... nothing remains," Francis Nakwafio Kasai, a field officer with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told Reuters.
The U.N. convoy, carrying aid workers and medical supplies and escorted by U.N. troops, crossed the conflict front line in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu province to reach the rebel-held town of Rutshuru.
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