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...

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED WITH BUTCHERY ON THIS SCALE-SOYINKA.

Nigerian Literature Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka speaks to Reuters correspondent Tim Cocks (R) during an interview in Soyinka's home in the southwest city of Abeokuta July 1, 2014. Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country's break-up less likely, Soyinka said. REUTERS-Akintunde Akinleye             An international source,visited Wole Soyinka at his home in Abeokuta on tueday and he was interviewed and durig the interview,Wole Soyinka said ''The blod shed was now worse than during the 1967-70 Biafra war when a secessionist attempt by the eastern Igbo people nearly tore Nigeria up into ethnic regions.We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale,even during the civil war.There were atrocities during Biafra but we never had such a near predictable level of carnage and this is what is horrifying''.

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  1. What is happening in the North, is God's retribution of the senseless killings of eastern Christians at any flimsy religious excuse.

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