Revealed: Democratic Republic of Congo’s ‘invisible’ massacre
Abyssine Miniunga, internally displaced on an islet in the middle of the Congo River near Yumbi, poses near her shelter for a photograph on January 28, 2019. Several hundred displaced people have found refuge on the islets of the river, according to humanitarian actors on the ground. Mass killings have also been confirmed to have taken place in mid-December in Yumbi. PHOTO | AFP
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It was a whole month before a preliminary UN investigation said “credible sources” had found nearly 900 people were killed -- a figure later scaled back to 535 after bodies had been identified
