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Children bear brunt of Congo's humanitarian crisis
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-03 11:34
 
 
Refugees who fled fighting between government soldiers and renegade Congolese General Laurent Nkunda queue for water at a makeshift camp near Kibati, 12 km north of the provincial capital of Goma, October 29, 2008. Rebel forces advanced on Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma on Wednesday, threatening to overwhelm government troops and a 17,000-strong U.N. force deployed to halt a return to all-out war. [Agencies]