Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Bunia/Kigali Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east. Ituri The fighting in Ituri, mainly around the main town of Bunia, has left vulnerable communities without aid, including in Bogoro, 25km south of Bunia. "As long as there is still fighting, [and] as long as the militia are still along the roads, no one will set foot, we cannot help those near Bogoro," Jean-Charles Dupin, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Orientale Province, said. Flory Apyera, a coordinator with the German NGO Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Ituri, said the...
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