(25 Nov 2012)
1. Wide of Mugunga camp, 7 km (4.5 miles) outside of Goma, created by 2,200 newly arrived internally displaced people (IDPs)
2. Mid of family next to makeshift shelters
3. People gathered in front of a church that also serves as a local registration office and temporary shelter
4. Close of people
5. Interior of church at Mugunga camp, crammed with people
6. Close of crying child in the church, who has arrived without parents
7. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Salama (no family name given), a resident of the embattled town of Sake:
"When the government army attacked, the mortar entered through the roof, injuring my husband's leg with a metal shrapnel."
8. Food aid being delivered to the camp
9. Food aid bags stacked outside a school at Mugunga camp for later distribution
10. Close of food bags provided by WFP (World Food Programme)
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Davies Bishie, Regional Programme Coordinator for World Vision:
"The problem is that these internally displace people came here and they walked long distances carrying children, some carrying a little bit of belongings and they didn't have any food and any water."
12. Congolese displaced women stand in line waiting for food aid
13. Child on woman's back
14. Maize being poured into a bag to be handed out to displaced people during food distribution
16. Displaced women carrying a bag of maize on her back
17. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Masaliyo Shamolo, chief of the Mugunga IDP camp:
"We are tired living in the camp so if the international community can provide peace we could finally return home."
18. Mid of displaced family who escaped the town of Sake after government forces tried to retake it from the M23 rebels
STORYLINE:
Some of the civilians displaced by fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the M23 rebel group and government troops have swollen the size of displaced camps which were set up after previous spasms of violence.
In Mugunga camp seven kilometres (4.5 miles) away from the eastern capital Goma, around 2,200 newly arrived displaced people waited for assistance on Sunday in their desperate search for food, clean water and shelter.
In recent days, tens of thousands of civilians have been seen fleeing along a 10-kilometre (6-mile) stretch of the road to Goma, carrying mattresses and cooking pots on their heads, as well as live animals bundled on their backs.
The rebels took Goma without much of a battle, with the Congolese army fleeing in disarray and U.N. peacekeepers holding fire.
"When the government army attacked, the mortar entered through the roof, injuring my husband's leg with a metal shrapnel," Salama, a displaced woman from the nearby town of Sake said.
Bags of maize were being brought into the Mugunga camp on Sunday, supplied by the World Food Program. Such aid, however, has only recently been getting through.
The camp's chief, Masaliyo Shamolo, said he hoped the international community could help create peace in the region so that he and his fellow IDPs can "finally return home."
Meanwhile in neighbouring Uganda on Sunday the country's defence minister said he was mediating talks between Congolese officials and representatives of M23.
Minister Crispus Kiyonga said Uganda is trying to help both sides reach a settlement that would end a violent rebellion that has sucked in Uganda and Rwanda, which both face charges of backing the rebels.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east has been plagued by decades of violence, and the latest rebellion is a reincarnation of a previous conflict.
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