Renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced the United Nations refugee agency to suspend aid to displaced people.
The UNHCR said hundreds more people have fled their homes because of the latest clashes in North Kivu province.
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Clashes broke out last weekend between government soldiers and fighters from the FDLR of Rwandan Hutu rebels after three months of relative calm.
The UNHCR says violence in Kivu has now displaced almost 900,000 people.
Clashes on Saturday and Sunday left at least one woman dead.
UNHCR officials said most of the displaced people are women and children who are sheltering in public buildings.
Some said their homes had been destroyed and their possessions looted, while some parents said they had lost touch with their children.
The UN agency added that suspected cases of cholera had been reported.
The displacement in the Rutshuru area, some 70km north of the provincial capital, Goma, comes three months after the signing of an accord in Goma between the government and a different armed group, led by renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda.
The region has been wracked by violence for more than a decade.
A peace agreement in 2003 formally brought years of war to a close, but fighting flared again in North Kivu that same year.
The agency says there are about 1.3 m displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while 350,000 Congolese have fled to other countries.
(BBC)
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