this is new news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes they watched as their fill of people were hacked to death with machetes and their homes burnt to the proud we'll hear from the congolese people now just plain stop that interest me violence in the region this as the u.n. save that same violence has seen 300000 people flee the country just in the last 2 weeks. and kenya's counter terror tactics the country has been known to react to terror attacks with excessive force everything from object area to force to disappearances but it is making the country safe from external threats. i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad you're choosing day and we

begin today with a warning from the u.n. of a growing humanitarian crisis in the democratic republic of congo the un's refugee agency says more than 300000 people have fled their homes in the past 2 weeks off to a new outbreak of interest. the most recent flare up off islands in the d.r. sea is centered on if to restate and that's in the east of the country now the region is also currency the center of an ebola outbreak the u.n. h.c.r. says there are concerns that more and more people will try to cross lake albert to seek safety in neighboring uganda and i will cross to geneva in a minute for more on this looming emergency but 1st this report on recent violence in a tory province. a makeshift camp in the town of the nia momentary shelter for some of those who managed to escape lost her husband and alleged attack

by farmers of the ethnic group of the window. but. we were in the fields when we heard about it. we had started to run towards our homes which we found had been set alight some people were burned alive inside the houses. who couldn't take anything with us. pull with machetes and we don't even know what they did with the bodies and we don't know if they even barrack then. that's why the flood here. jael that. many found refuge in the local church of to nia in horror they fled through thick bush after witnessing their families being killed. i thought that i. was bored i didn't come here because i wanted to. we saw a group of people massacre our people and burn down our villages. since we had no

weapons we could not do anything we had to watch as our villages burned and our people died. in fact i myself lost many members of my family and also of my wife's family and one of my sister in laws was killed with her 5 children. the series of attacks in the 2 re province has mostly targeted him or her to us who've long been in conflict with linda farmers of a grazing rights and political representation although the exact identity of the assailants remains unclear. i'm now joined by the spokesman for the office of the un 8 c.r. coming to us from geneva welcome to d.w. africa let's 1st start establishing what is causing the conflicts between these ethnic groups the the hem of people and the lendu people

a devival bridge between these 2 groups is 2 decades old it started in 1909 in 2000 that was the 1st round off while ins and then we saw a recurrence in 2017 and early 2018 when some 350000 people were displaced by the clashes the numbers we're seeing now more than 300002 within 2 weeks is unprecedented. the democratic republic of congo has a complex displacement picture but the rate at which this displacement has happened is unprecedented and president as you say but you're talking about a long history of rivalry between these 2 groups and we know that there's a lot of people that have been displaced as a result of interesting violence in this country why is the congolese government seemingly not able to have the situation under control.

as far as we understand this situation the military has gone in to bring things under control but as far as we understand it and as far as people who have been displaced displaced they ringback talk what communities forming self-defense drop unleashing revenge attacks and counterattacks against each other targeting civilians horrifying accounts of killing maiming targeting people sexual assaults and rape this is all happening and as it continues the fears are that more people could be affected you are now the 300000 is a really comes away to estimate there could be war people who would be affected by this and most of these people who are arriving women children and men majority of them are with host communities some have arrived in the displacement side which are already there and caring for the displaced who have been displaced within you truly

before this ok but this part of congo mr pollack to a way with this is this violence has broken out is the same region where we have the ebola outbreak raging what then happens to countries like uganda that's going to receive the bulk of these people that are fleeing the north eastern congo what is the what is the that the threats there. the man at the center of ebola inside the d.r. see is the north kivu present province but also in italy there have been cases and also with insecurity with displacement the fears for this disease to spread is there but what we have seen is small numbers of refugees have been arriving in uganda let's not forget that the border between the r.c. and uganda is huge it's poorest and refugee movements are smaller in respect of of

others back and forth movement. ok. spokesman for the office of the u.n. h.c.r. coming to us from geneva thank you we appreciate your time and next we're looking at security in kenya because today a colt was meant to announce the verdict of 4 men charged in connection with the attack on the university in 2015 which left nearly $150.00 people dead in what was one of the most horrific attacks in the country gunmen from the so malia based islamist militia al-shabaab stormed a university in april 2015 they took more than 700 students hostage before killing those who identified as christians and releasing the muslims before gunman was shot by kenyan security forces shot dead that is and the defendants in the current trial facing terrorism charges related to the attack. now kenya's

response to terrorism has been heavy handed in the pasta after the attack people were arbitrarily arrested and detained without trial human rights watch says the police and military carried out forced disappearances and even killed people suspected to have links with al shabaab so does this make kenya any safer for more on this and the security situation in the country we've invited as security consultant in nairobi in windham be doing for me he served in the country's air force air defense control unit while come to d.w. africa's we have human rights watch is saying that kenya is counter terror attack 6 have not been all that successful they point to the fact that however much force has been used it's not really resulted in preventing attacks by al-shabaab what is your assessment of the situation. thank you for having me and greetings to all of us i i want to be for

a little with the human rights watch report that 10 are. not hard results you know our troops are cross the border to somalia are and it's all because one of our troops to some idea that we've got you know immense success in the house about but not really here back home the point isn't that what the government will to play to stopping terrorists or terrorist cells. actually bought one for us and my assessment of the local security was on our show you for sure but that is. tremendous and since 2016 would not have been made up there was a box in nairobi until the recent one of these you can tell so looking at the what they actually had previously and this person and we did not been good ok we're talking about a terrorist group al-shabaab that this is that this has been called a terrorist group it's recognized as such internationally it's say is that it is retaliating against kenya. kenya's military incursions in somalia now $11.00

does is the simple solution in the case of kenya to to pull its troops out of somalia so that al-shabaab has no beef with kenya so to say. not at all i don't mean to get into this in somalia now only 2 percent think in u.s. interest they have their own the. african union and actually the united nations and so you know that are needed to take in troops only we are with european troops that we have ugandan troops there so it's really wonderful there to say you cannot pull out we'll stop talking to these done to the back and get it before kills someone. all right and just just i want to get your sense off in terms of for ordinary people in kenya what what kind of assurances can they get that the government is on top of the situation you do point to the fact that there haven't been major attacks in a while bar the one that happened in january but the point is this is still an existing

threat is how does the government ensure kenyans can be safe or is that just not possible. government has to invest immensely on intelligence collection. until terrorism in the won't we have enough because of europe and america where is intelligent. critical actionable intelligence the government must be there because a software to do security don't. frankly no one is doing a good lead follow the lead until you get something i believe you don't get something out of it that it's on the right believe and so if we best governments can you know you know the government then it's going to keep our people similar to what our country has done from 26 the government decided that in best intelligence and this is what's beyond human comprehension all right more. security analyst in kenya's capital nairobi thank you so we appreciate your insight.

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