DR Congo

Kasai in crisis

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© Ivo Brandau, UN OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has struggled with one of the world’s most relentless emergencies, in its eastern provinces. But now the central Kasai region is facing an acute crisis: in less than a year, escalating conflict between the Congolese authorities and a local militia known as Kamwina Nsapu, has displaced 1.4 million people.

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