EU flies aid to conflict-hit eastern Congo.
Fighting between the Congolese army and the M23, a rebel group claiming to represent the interests of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo, has exacerbated an existing humanitarian crisis with over 5.5 million people displaced across several provinces.
"Today, this population only wants a lasting peace so that they can return to their home environment," the governor of North Kivu province, Constant Ndima Kongba, told reporters at the airport.to send aid worth over 47 million euros to North Kivu to support immediate needs such as nutrition, healthcare, water and sanitation, shelter and protection.
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