More than 300 000 people have fled violence and inter-ethnic attacks in northeastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two weeks, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
"This latest flare-up has sent more than 300 000 people into displacement," Babar Baloch, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, told reporters in Geneva, voicing fear that "this escalation could engulf large parts of (Ituri) province".