Fighting has also resulted in the displacement of 450,000 people, the country’s prime minister has said In a recent address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Judith Suminwa, reported that ongoing battles in the country’s eastern regions have led to the deaths of about 7,000 people since January. Suminwa said that approximately 3,000 of these deaths occurred in Goma, a major city in the eastern part of the