In Pictures - Inside the displaced persons camp of Bijombo in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, approximately one hundred villages have been burned and destroyed and dozens of civilians have been killed

Since February 2019, the landlocked highlands of Fizi and Uvira in South Kivu have been the scene of clashes and retaliation attacks by armed groups claiming to defend the interests of their respective communities

17. Unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Displaced persons from the Bafuliru community stand amidst the makeshift shelters of the internally displaced persons camp of Bijombo. Photo: Alexis Huguet / AFP Getty

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