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...

ZIMBABWE INFORMATION MINISTER ''A DEVILS INCARNATE''-MUGABE.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe stands during celebrations to mark his country's 34th Independence Day in Harare April 18, 2014. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo          Robert Mugabe,Zimbabwe's president yesterday friday branded his information minister a ''Devil Incarnate'',accusing him of appointing editors of state owned newspapers who were sympathetic to the opposition.Zimbabwe's private media say an intense battle to succeed the 90 year old Mugabe has sucked in the state owned press.Mugabe said Jonathan Moyo,appointed information minister last year was using the government controlled newspaper to sow divisions.''I am saying this in light of what is happening now,when you have our minister of information wanting to pit people one against another,you don't do things like that''.On friday,Mugabe told mourners at a funeral of a senior ZANU-PF official that Moyo,a proffessor of political science,was trying to use his knowledge and intellectual ideas to destroy ZANU-PF by appointing editors sympathetic to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change {MDC}''I am saying this because all the men that we had,who wereleading the newspapers,were fired and replaced by those from the MDC.You were all thinking you had a trusted person,he is infact ''A Devil Incarnate''.                                  

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