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Claude fears he may soon die – either from starvation or violence – as he waits at a food distribution tent in a refugee camp in Burundi.
He is among thousands of Congolese refugees trapped between a brutal conflict across the border and severe reductions in international food assistance.
A former bouncer from Uvira, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Claude fled after violence erupted in the east, sparked by the rapid advance of the Rwanda-backed M23 group.
Armed groups “were shooting, killing each other, … raping women,” recalled the 25-year-old, who escaped…
