Congo’s Civilians Need Protection

"We fled home in 2004 and we haven’t been back," a 33-year-old woman I will call Solange told me. "We lived in Kiwanja: there was no assistance so we lived for two years in a church; then we lived for two years in a camp." After soldiers destroyed the camp, they fled to the outskirts of a UN peacekeepers’ base. "Now the locals want us to leave.

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