Thousands of Children Displaced by Ethnic Violence in DRC’s Ituri Province

The U.N. children’s fund reports at least 90,000 children have been forced to flee their homes in the face of escalating inter-communal violence in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri Province. Ituri’s Djugu territory in northeastern D.R.C. has been the scene of recent carnage and displacement, with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes in fear of their lives. The U.N. children’s fund reports ethnic violence in this province has displaced an estimated 66,000 children...

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