U.N. reports new displacement in eastern DRC, updates humanitarian responses in several countries

U.N. humanitarian agencies on Friday gave a series of updates on crises across Africa and the Pacific, reporting new displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and detailing responses to disasters and needs in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, the Central African Republic and Vanuatu.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that violence has displaced 237,000 people since the start of the year in the east of the country. North and South Kivu provinces are home to about 4,600,000 internally displaced people, the agencies said. Intense fighting in Masisi and Lubero territories forced roughly 150,000 people to flee earlier in the year, and local authorities in South Kivu's Fizi territory reported about 84,000 people displaced, the briefing said.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of…