DRC Refugees Up To 125,000
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Published: January 18, 2010
DRC Refugees Up To 125,000
Tayo Adelaja
The number of refugees fleeing ethnic conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province has reached 125,000. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned this week that the massive influx of DRC refugees into neighbouring Republic of Congo and Central African Republic is straining their resources and could lead to tension with local communities. The UN said that 17,000 people – 60 per cent of them children – have fled to Mougoumba, in the Central African Republic, where they now outnumber locals by 200 to one. The arrival of a further 107,000 refugees in the Likouala region of the Republic of Congo has doubled the local population, according to the UN. Fights over fishing and farming rights erupted in Equateur province in October, killing at least 270 people.
