DR Congo

The British development agency Oxfam says the humanitarian situation in Eastern Congo is worse than at the end of last year, since the UN peace keeping force MONUC has been supporting the Congolese army in an offensive against Rwandan-Hutu FDLR rebels in the provinces of North and South Kivu.

This arrangement was reached after a peace deal was signed between Congolese rebel groups and the Kinshasa government.

The FDLR are seen as a root cause of nearly a decade and a half of conflict.

Our reporter, Thomas Fessy, has been in the regional capital Goma where Oxam's director in Congo Marcel Stoessel told him about the extent of the humanitarian situation there .