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Speaker urges 'silence the guns' as M23 offensive fuels humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC
Summary
A speaker at the meeting appealed for regional and international action ahead of summits in Tanzania and Addis Ababa, saying the offensive by the M23 and related violence has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Speaker urged regional and international actors to "silence the guns" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as summits in Tanzania and Addis Ababa prepare to address what the speaker described as an offensive by the M23 supported by the Rwandan Defense Forces.
"Thousands of people have been killed, including women and children, and hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes in the Eastern DRC," the Speaker said, describing…
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