DRC: The forgotten war

Numbers coming out of Congo these days are staggering, reports this article from Germany's Der Spiegel newspaper. There are currently 2.5 million refugees in the entire country, including 500,000 in the North Kivu province alone. According to conservative estimates, more than three million people have died in the region in the past few years. The US-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) recently reported that thousands of people die in the country each day from malnutrition or any one of a myriad of diseases.