DRC: Thousands flee Kiwanja amid fears of attack

KINSHASA Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have fled transit sites in Kiwanja, northeast of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, amid fears of an imminent militia attack."Eighty thousand people left the camps although the attack did not take place," said Jean-Marc Mambidi, a member of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) team in the province. Kiwanja is located 63 km from Goma.Some of the IDPs, who fled after rumours of an...