More than 21,000 people have been displaced in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the end of March, due to violence between two rival communities, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Friday. )).
“About 21,000 Congolese – mostly women and children – have been displaced since March 28 following clashes between the Luba and Kuba ethnic groups in the town of Bakwakenge in Kasai” in the south of the country, on the border withAngolaBabar Baloch, a UNHCR spokesperson said in a statement. On March 29, 13 members of the Kuba community were stabbed to death in clashes with members of the rival community LubaMany others have “Were injured and 190 houses were set on fire”, he adds.
For decades, the conflict has played against the two communities land management and managementThe region Kasai fell into violence between September 2016 and mid-2017, during the rebellion of the militiamen of the usual leader Kamuina Nsapu, killed by security forces in August 2016. The conflict has killed 3,400 people, displaced 1.4 million people in the DRC and forced 35,000 people to take refuge in Angola.
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