MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).

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 More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...

CBS INTERVIEWS A BOKO HARAM MEMBER?

            According to the boko haram member Sale Abubakar who spoke to CBS correspondent Debora Patta that the boko haram group is planning another kidnapping.Saleh has been a boko haram member for seven years though he was a little it relunctant to speak to the CBS reporter.He said ''we go to their school and attack some of soldiers and policeman''.He told CBS News he'd seen the girls three weeks ago,and they were being cared for ''some of them will complain of headache,we have medicine,we have everything in place where we keep them.If Allah wish,nothing will happen to them,but we ask the government  if they don't release our brothers we are not going to release them.I will not tell you what we are going to do''.Watch the video  below.This CBS no they fear ohhhhhhhhh.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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