Even with a cease-fire while waiting on a peace agreement, thousands continue to die in eastern Congo. It is the young and weak who cannot take care of themselves that die.
News - Africa: DRC: Young bodies pile up.
Masisi, DRC - While peace talks in Kenya try to end the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hunger and disease spawned by the conflict are killing the young and weak in a daily harvest of death.
The list of dead at the Kilimani refugee camp at Masisi in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province reveals the still-swelling toll from a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis thought to have killed more than five million people in a decade.
After weeks of confused fighting that displaced more than 250 000 people, government envoys are meeting Congolese Tutsi rebels in Nairobi to try to end festering political and ethnic enmity in the eastern borderlands.
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