More than 1 000 die in DRC daily – report
About 1 200 people die every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), more than half of them children, as a result of violence in the troubled country, a report published on Monday by the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (Unicef) said. The conflict that engulfed the former Belgian colony for nearly a decade has claimed more victims every six months than the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami that struck in December 2004, the report claimed. Full Story