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GUILLEM SARTORIO/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Almost a million people have been forced to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year following an upsurge in violence in the east of the Central African nation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, has announced.Humanitarian agencies are raising alarm at the "humanitarian and medical toll of the violence," saying the situation has reached a "devastating level" as thousands of weapon-wounded civilians pour in to hospitals in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, and surroundin...