UN rights chief warns of spread of Congo crisis at emergency UN meeting
Congolese refugees pass through the Bunagana border with Uganda as they flee from fighting between M23 rebels and DRC government forces on October 24, 2022.
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all those with influence to help halt the violence and warning of a risk that it spreads beyond the country's borders.
"If nothing is done, the worst may be yet to come, for the people of the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), but also beyond the country’s borders," Türk told an emergency meeting of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.
