About sixty percent of the 1.1 million displaced in the Congo are children, who are facing the threats of hunger, disease, sexual abuse, and recruitment by armed factions.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) cited the figure in a report issued on Tuesday.
“We estimate that there are around 2,000 to 3,000 children in armed groups and recruitment is going on right now,” UNICEF spokesman Jaya Murthy told Reuters in Goma.
“When children flee fighting, they become more vulnerable to contracting diseases, to becoming malnourished, and vulnerable to predators like sexual abuse, exploitation, violence and recruitment into armed groups,” said Murthy.
African leaders recently staged summits to find a solution for the recent fighting between Tutsi rebels and pro-government troops and militia fighters.
The number of internal refugees rose to over one million after the recent clashes forced more than 250,000 people to abandon their homes.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire so that aid workers could provide urgently needed assistance to the displaced people.
“Because of the ongoing fighting, these people have received virtually no assistance. Their situation has grown increasingly desperate,” Ban said.
According to some estimates, 5.4 million people have been killed in the ten-year war in the Congo, making it the bloodiest war since World War II.
(Source: Press TV)-