{"id":40725,"date":"2025-01-10T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/more-than-100000-people-displaced-in-eastern-congo-since-the-start-of-the-year-un-says\/10\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:55:02","slug":"more-than-100000-people-displaced-in-eastern-congo-since-the-start-of-the-year-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/more-than-100000-people-displaced-in-eastern-congo-since-the-start-of-the-year-un-says\/10\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100,000 people displaced in eastern Congo since the start of the year, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">KINSHASA, Congo (AP) \u2014 More than 100,000 people have been displaced since the start of the year in eastern Congo as a result of a new rebel offensive, according to a United Nations report released Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">M23 rebels <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congo-rebels-m23-rwanda-015d9b587c9e5a5c5f1f4a3415e5a47d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:captured;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">captured<\/a> the town of Masisi on Monday, leading to a mass exodus of people in the face of a new offensive by the rebel group that saw them take over two strategic towns in the east of the country in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">The newly displaced people add to the 2.8 million already displaced in the province of North Kivu, more than a third of the province&#8217;s population, according to the U.N.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h3 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h3>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">M23, or the March 23 Movement, is a militant group composed of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army just over a decade ago. The group rose to prominence in 2012 when its fighters seized Goma, eastern Congo\u2019s largest city on the border with Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">M23 is one of more than 100 armed groups that have been vying for territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crises. All told, more than 7 million people have been displaced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/more-100-000-people-displaced-183648127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, Congo (AP) &mdash; More than 100,000 people have been displaced since the start of the year in eastern Congo as a<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/more-than-100000-people-displaced-in-eastern-congo-since-the-start-of-the-year-un-says\/10\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}