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 CHE, Congo (AP) - Disease and a lack of clean water are killing 20 children every day in squalid camps of eastern Congo, victims of ethnic-driven violence that has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to U.N. officials.
Those deaths may be an indicator of a much larger tragedy, according to U.N. and government security officials who toured three sprawling camps in remote Ituri province on Friday, where about 75,000 people have fled to escape being killed by militia prowling the surrounding hills.
"The people in the camps we're able to reach," said Ross Mountain, humanitarian coordinator for the U.N. mission in Congo. "The tragedy is what we're not seeing."
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