A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100,000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100,000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel group’s leader, Jean-Pierre Bemba. FLC rebels backed regular troops in CAR to help quell an attempted coup in late May. The United Nations refugee agency, which is sending a mission to Equateur province, said in Geneva last week that between 14,000 and 17,000 people in the Central African Republic capital Bangui, which lies on the border, had fled southward to the DRC. – AFP