Violence Increases in Democratic Republic of Congo

NPR | By Jason Beaubien

Published April 5, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 100,000 people have been displaced because of a surge in fighting between rival militias. The unrest also has sparked an outbreak of cholera.

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