DRC-UGANDA: Refugees seek a better life over the border

DRC-UGANDA BORDER, ISHASHA Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Jean-Claude Molumba has not worked in more a month. He is a primary school teacher but it is not safe for him – or his students – to assemble for classes. Just last week, when he realised that more than 300 people in his small village had died, he decided to leave DRC and cross the border to Uganda. In the small town of Ishasha, just 500m inside Uganda, about 7,000 Congolese refugees are gathering at a makeshift transit site, waiting...