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...

ORTOM SYMPATHIZES WITH APC OVER CHAIRMAN'S MURDER.#PRESS RELEASE.

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      Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom commiserates with the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state over the murder of the party's Chairman in Ohimini Local Government Area, Mr Boniface Okloho.
Governor Ortom strongly condemns the killing and urges security agencies to ensure that those responsible are apprehended for prosecution.
He describes the act as barbaric, anti-democratic and capable of derailing the electoral process in the area.
The Governor says violence in any form has no place in democracy, and stresses that those who take the lives of others on account of politics are the real enemies of the State.
Governor Ortom sympathizes with the Okloho family, the people of Ohimini as well as the leadership and members of APC in the State.
He prays God to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest.
Terver Akase
Chief Press Secretary
February 18, 2019.
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