Heavy fighting in eastern Congo has driven at least 1,700 people from a refugee camp, the U.N. said Tuesday, and an aid group said a team of its medical workers has been trapped in a nearby hospital.
The fighting resumed late Monday night in the eastern villages of Tongo and Nyanzale, said Lt. Col. Jean-Paul Dietrich, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo. The fighting pitted Congo's army against the National Congress for the Defense of the People, or CNDP, a rebel group claiming to be protecting the area's Tutsi minority.
He said at least 1,700 people were forced to flee from the refugee camp in Tongo.
Doctors Without Borders said a team of …
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