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Fighting brings fresh displacement

    NAIROBI

    Renewed heavy fighting has been reported in parts of South Kivu and Katanga provinces since 23 June, resulting in new displacement of civilians, humanitarian sources told IRIN on Wednesday. Hostilities in the Boko, Kabamba and Kitoke areas were said to involve forces of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD), local Mayi-Mayi militia and Burundian FDD rebels, the sources reported. Some 7,000 newly-displaced people were reported in the Uvira, Kiliba and Lulingu areas of the Ruzizi plain, while over 8,000 people who fled recent fighting in Manono were reported to have arrived in the Malemba-Nkulu area of Katanga. Some residents of Malemba-Nkulu and Kinkodja were reported to have fled in panic as a result of the influx and were heading towards Lubumbashi, the sources added.

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