{{The United Nations on Monday denounced armed groups in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo for carrying out murders of civilians, looting and burning down entire villages.}}<\/p>\n
For several weeks the Masisi territory in mineral-rich Nord-Kivu province “has been the scene of a number of assaults on civilians”, said the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in DR Congo, Moustapha Soumare, in a statement.<\/p>\n
Soumare said he had received alarming reports of killings — many based on ethnic origin — by armed groups in the south of the territory where nearly 40 people died and villages set ablaze.<\/p>\n
The homes of displaced people were pillaged and health centres which temporarily suspended their activities after medics fled were also targeted, he said.<\/p>\n
“Even humanitarian aid distributed by the United Nations and NGOs was looted in places.”<\/p>\n
Dozens of local and foreign armed groups in Nord-Kivu have made the province particularly unstable — some wreaking havoc for ethnic, territorial or economic reasons for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n
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