UN agency calls for urgent aid as conflict drives refugees from DR Congo | Conflict News

Violence in DR Congo has sent thousands of people fleeing into neighbouring countries.

Funding is desperately needed to feed a wave of refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Burundi, the World Food Programme said.

The United Nations agency warned on Monday that 70,000 people have fled across the border to neighbouring Burundi since Rwanda-backed armed group M23 launched an offensive in January and seized large swaths of territory in eastern…