About 240 Dead After Days of Congo Intercommunal Violence

About 240 Dead After Days of Congo Intercommunal Violence
Congolese National Police arrest a man at Majengo neighborhood in Goma , during a demonstration against the postponement, announced the day before by the Congolese national committee, of the general elections in this area because of the Ebola outbreak and the mass killings of civilians in this trouble part of DRC on Dec. 27, 2018 . Patrick Meinhard/AFP/Getty Images
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KINSHASA, Congo—The governor of Congo’s northeast Ituri province says two weeks of intercommunal violence have killed more than 240 people in several villages while many others have fled.

More than 300,000 others have fled their homes, according to the United Nations.