
UNHCR seeks urgent support as violence in eastern DR Congo leaves hundreds of thousands without shelter
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the provision of urgently needed aid. Heavy artillery shelling and looting have destroyed 70,000 emergency shelters around Goma and Minova in North…