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100,000 Flee Congo Fighting

HeadlineOct 16, 2008

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN is warning some 100,000 people have been displaced in fighting between the army and a rebel force. The fighting has occurred in eastern Congo, the flashpoint of two civil wars over the past decades. The UN says the situation is “catastrophic.”

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