More than 1.7 million people are IDPs, of whom some 72,000 live in spontaneous camps.
For now, the US State Department is full of sound and fury and it signifies nothing resembling reality in eastern Congo.
The displaced are still there, still waiting. Waiting for a government to offer the rule of law independent of puppet strings that extend outside of Africa.
The Congolese Revolutionary Army at least offers hope, and you can see that hope in the video clips that are flowing out of Goma.
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