Shame On World Leaders For Neglect Of Displaced Civilians In Drc, Says Aid Chief

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for neglect of people living subhuman existence World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were hanging by a thread at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC, the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said. In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the nationalistic winds blowing across Europe and the US, the Norwegian Refugee Councils head told the Guardian how people were living out in the open, in overcrowded, unsanitary displacement encampments around the city of Goma, where from their homes as the M23 rebels advanced through the DRCs North and South Kivu provinces.