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Eastern DRC Conflict: Thousands of schools forced to close

Eastern DRC Conflict: Thousands of schools forced to close

THOMAS Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people's camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Buregeya fled the town of Kibumba with his family in October amid a renewed offensive by the M23 rebel group - the third time in 15 years he has been forced to escape his home and has not been able to study for a whole year. He is now 22 and still waiting to complete school. "When…
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Pope offers a solution to end DRC conflict

Pope offers a solution to end DRC conflict

PHILIP PULLELLA and ESTELLE SHIRBON POPE Francis heard harrowing accounts from victims of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including rape, amputation, forced cannibalism and sexual slavery, and he condemned the atrocities as war crimes. In a poignant encounter at the Vatican's embassy in the capital Kinshasa, victim after the victim told their story to the pontiff before laying down objects symbolising their suffering, such as a machete or a dagger, before a large wooden crucifix. They included Ladislas Kambale Kombi, 16, from a village in North Kivu province in the east, who saw his father beheaded and dismembered…
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