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> The destruction in Kapende, where no house remains occupied or intact, marked the culmination of three days of violence in Lucapa, a sprawling mining town in
by roywiggins 8y ago
> The destruction in Kapende, where no house remains occupied or intact, marked the culmination of three days of violence in Lucapa, a sprawling mining town in the northeast surrounded by some of the world’s richest diamond fields.
> About 300,000 Congolese have fled Angola in the last few weeks, many of them in response to the violence in Lucapa at the beginning of October.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insight/three-days-of-violence-that-emptied-an-angolan-town-of-congolese-idUSKCN1MZ1UI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insig...