About 200,000 people have fled their homes in eastern Congo in recent days, the United Nations said, as Rwanda-backed rebels march on a strategic town just days after Donald Trump hosted the Rwandan and Congolese leaders to proclaim peace.

Rwandan-backed rebels have pushed into the outskirts of Uvira in eastern Congo, according to local authorities.

A surge in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s foreign-currency holdings and a shift in central-bank policy have fueled an almost 29% rally in the franc this year, making it Africa’s best-performing currency against the dollar alongside the cedi.

President Donald Trump says he has ended the long war in eastern Congo. But despite signing peace deals, Congo’s M23 rebels have tightened their grip on power by enlisting more soldiers, building a parallel administration and seizing mines rich in critical minerals.

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo is battling its worst cholera outbreak in 25 years which has killed almost 2,000 people since January, the U.N. children's agency said on Monday. In one case, a quarter of the children in a Kinshasa orphanage - 16 out of 62 - died days after the disease swept through, UNICEF added.

A bomb explosion has killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo. The blast followed a clash between the Congolese army and a pro-government militia in the town of Sange on Sunday evening.

KINSHASA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday accused Rwanda of violating its commitments to a U.S.-brokered peace deal aimed at ending years of conflict in the country's mineral-rich east, just days after attending a signing ceremony in Washington.