The United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that ongoing instability in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) poses a grave risk to civilian safety, including for several hundred refugees recently returned there from Angola.
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DR Congo: Flaring tensions could ‘plunge Kasai region into new violence,’ UN warns
- 06 March 2018

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