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- Over 6.7 million people out of which 40 per cent are children, have been displaced across conflict-affected provinces in DRC.
- UN warns children are facing summary executions, sexual violence and abduction and recruitment by the warring factions.
- 45 children, who were cared for in a day transit centre in Goma to have been killed, UN reports.
An increasing number of children in the war ton Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing summary executions, sexual violence amid increasing abduction and recruitment by the factions involved in the escalating conflict.
In an update Thursday by the UN Child Rights Committee, children in violence saddled zones of North and South Kivu to the East of the vast country are coming face to face with grave catastrophe.
The UN agency warned that increasingly, armed groups are targeting displaced children and those left helpless in the streets that have been run over by militias.…