GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 150,000 people have fled fighting between government forces and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past six weeks, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.
They include 50,000 forced to leave their homes in the northeastern region of Ituri, where battles between the Congolese army and Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have caused a heavy loss of life and widespread destruction, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
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