evidence: Kelvin Shimo told IRIN. The refugees have arrived in the Zambian border town of Chiengi, they were escaping fighting in and around the DRC border town of Pweto, Shaba Province. [...] "These people will need help if they present themselves to us in Chiengi," [...] Kaima said that along with this new influx of refugees were nearly 500 DRC soldiers who also fled the fighting at Pweto. He told IRIN that he met some of the soldiers when they arrived in Chiengi. "These soldiers were tired and starving when they reached Zambia, they were disarmed and they'll join the 540 DRC soldiers in Kaputa awaiting repatriation," Kaima told IRIN. The 540 soldiers in the Zambian border town of Kaputa fled fighting around Kalemie, about 200 km north of Pweto, last month.