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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: UN Warns Record Number of People Have Been Displaced by Violence in Congo
Caption: UN Warns Record Number of People Have Been Displaced by Violence in Congo. On October 31, the United Nations warned that a record-breaking 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo amid decades of conflict. 'The Independent' reports that the agency's International Organization for Migration (IOM) released data from Congo's 26 provinces. According to the data, at least 80% of displaced people originated in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. These provinces have been overrun by armed groups looking to lay claim to the region's resources, including gold. "The most recent escalation of the conflict has uprooted more people in less time like rarely seen before.", Fabien Sambussy, IOM's chief of mission in Congo, via 'The Independent' . According to the IOM, over two-thirds of those displaced live with host families, accounting for 4.8 million refugees. ‘The Independent' reports that rising violence has sparked global frustration. Earlier in October, Congo's government ordered the country's East African regional force to flee the country. The force, which was deployed in 2022 to help end the conflict, was allegedly told to leave after a "lack of satisfactory results on the ground”. According to the IOM, the U.N. has faced pressure to pull its troops from Congo after over 20 years of its peacekeeping mission. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
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