19 07 13 Global Times: UN reports 160,000 refugees in camps around Goma in eastern DR Congo

The head of public relations at the United Nations Office for Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Sylvestre Ntumba Mudingayi, on Wednesday also
reported the recent fighting between the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) and the
M23 rebels had resulted in the displacements of 420 households involving 2,000
or so people.

Most the displaced by the recent fighting arrived in Goma and are taking
shelter in churches and schools, Mudingayi told the weekly press conference by
the UN Mission for Stabilization of Congo (MONUSCO) in the capital Kinshasa.

The humanitarian workers are currently assessing other sites and camps far away
from the battle zone, where the displaced persons can be relocated, he added.

"The recurrence of fighting near the inhabited zones poses serious
problems for the protection of thousands of people and risks causing serious
humanitarian consequences," the coordinator of humanitarian action in DR
Congo, Moustapha Soumare, said earlier in the week.

Meanwhile, OCHA reported that about 66,000 Congolese refugees fled to Uganda since the fighting broke out between the
FARDC and an armed group in the town of Beni in North Kivu province.