The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo said on Monday that fighting in the country's eastern region has killed 7,000 people since January.

Judith Suminwa says more than 2,500 bodies buried without identification, ‘significant’ number of civilians among dead.

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday,