A Kiwanja, dans l'est de la RDC, un homme constate la mort de deux civils,
tués dans le massacre qui a eu lieu entre mercredi 5 et jeudi 6 novembre.

Violence extrême perpétrée par l'armée rwandaise, plus de 50.000
civils de deux camps des déplacés massacrés.

Nkunda's brother is dancing about the situation

A crowd of refugees gathers at the entrance to a USAID center
near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

1,6 million de déplacés pris au piège au Congo

 

Les hommes de Nkunda

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DR Congo refugee camps 'burned'

The UN says it has credible reports that camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed.

Reports suggest the camps were forcibly emptied and looted before being burned, the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said.

Aid groups say they are struggling to reach an estimated 250,000 people in the region fleeing fierce fighting between government and rebel forces.

 

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REBELS EXECUTE CIVILIANS IN KIVU

 

 

Humanitarian Crisis in DR Congo

Horrible images of Congolese fleeing villages and Goma in North Kivu Province , Eastern Congo, by fear of being killed by Rwandese troops and militias led by Laurent Nkunda. By the way, many Nkunda's men only speak Kinyarwanda and English. Go figure!

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Les dirigeants africains et l'ONU appellent au cessez-le-feu >>>

 

 

A Kiwanja, dans l'est de la RDC, un homme constate la mort de deux civils,
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Violence extrême perpétrée par l'armée rwandaise, plus de 50.000
civils de deux camps des déplacés massacrés.

 

Nkunda's brother is dancing about the situation

A crowd of refugees gathers at the entrance to a USAID center
near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

 

 

 

 

1,6 million de déplacés pris au piège au Congo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DR Congo refugee camps 'burned'

The UN says it has credible reports that camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed.

Reports suggest the camps were forcibly emptied and looted before being burned, the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said.

Aid groups say they are struggling to reach an estimated 250,000 people in the region fleeing fierce fighting between government and rebel forces.

 

RDC: 50.000 personnes sur les routes, expulsées de camps

 

RIK calls for the immediate arrest of General NKUNDA for Crimes against Humanity

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Over 250,000 displaced as sexual violence erupts in DRC - Times Online

 

Over 250,000 displaced as sexual violence erupts in DRC

‘The first soldiers killed my brother and his son, then I was raped as I fled’

More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced during the past three months

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Rob Crilly in Goma

The first soldiers kicked down the door to her house, killed her younger brother, his wife and son.

Then, as Ngiraganga fled barefoot towards safety, she came across the second wave of soldiers.

They asked her for money and when she explained that she had nothing to give they took her clothes, stripping the 42-year-old to her underwear.

The third group of soldiers took all she had left. “They beat me and raped me,” Ngiraganga said quietly in Swahili, sitting in the gloomy office of a women’s shelter. “They weren’t drunk, just dirty from the fighting.”

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More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced during the past three months of fighting as the Democratic Republic of Congo’s messy, forgotten war flares once again.

Rebels loyal to the renegade army general Laurent Nkunda have closed to within a few miles of Goma, the regional capital. Their front line is now only about 600 yards from the closest government positions.

Few analysts believe Nkunda’s claims that his National Congress for the Defence of People can take the city, much less hold it.

Government forces said yesterday that they had pushed the rebels back another three miles after heavy fighting earlier in the week.

With each tiny shift of the front line, however, and with each claim and counterclaim of a military breakthrough, thousands more people are forced from their homes and into the humanitarian statistics.

Families are being torn apart as sons and daughters run for their lives in different directions. And, as in so many miserable African wars, it is the women who are suffering most.

Ngiraganga was forced from her home in Rutshuru, 40 miles (65km) north of Goma, two weeks ago. With rebels closing in rapidly on the town, government soldiers began withdrawing.

She said that they went from door to door, killing husbands and fathers then raping the women. Ngiraganga survived by hiding in the bush for two days before walking for four more. She was naked and barefoot.

“I was tired and there seemed no way to keep going. My back and belly were sore and my head was hurting from where the soldiers beat me,” she said.

Exhausted and dressed in a few simple clothes she had found at the roadside, Ngiraganga reached the relative safety of Goma last week. Now she sleeps on the floor of a school and prays for the safety of the two sons and a daughter left behind in Rutshuru.

Goma is awash with thousands more with similar stories.

At night the smoke from scores of cooking fires mingles with mist rolling in from the mountains all around. Pitted basketball courts, football pitches and churches have all been turned into makeshift camps.

The start of the rainy season means that there is no escape from the cold at night. By day the thick stench of sewage fills the air.

Kahindo Françoise, co-ordinator of Univie, a charity that tries to help victims of sexual violence, said that it was impossible to gauge the extent of abuses. Many victims were still hiding in the bush, she said, unable to reach Goma.

“Soldiers of the Government are doing this. They are angry, they don’t have enough food or haven’t been paid their salaries, and they are not educated,” she added. “They are taking out their anger on local people. They take what they can and often the victims are women.”

The price of safety is pitifully little. When soldiers came calling at the house where 30-year-old Josephine was staying in Goma, she gave them all the money she had. She had been raped and displaced once, and knew what to do. “It was $10 which I had been saving to take the bus back to my place,” she said.

As so often in Central Africa, the roots of misery can be traced to someone else’s war: the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Nkunda claims that his soldiers are protecting ethnic Tutsis from Hutu militias who have lived deep in the Congolese jungle since fleeing Rwanda and the threat of reprisals for their role in the killings. Dozens more armed groups, each with an eye on the region’s rich mineral resources, complicate the picture further.

The presence of so many factions raises the constant fear that the Congo could slide back into all-out civil war, like the one that ended in 2003. That sucked in half a dozen African countries and turned the Congolese jungle into a vast battle-ground. Already there have been unconfirmed reports that troops from Rwanda, Angola and Zimbabwe have arrived during the latest round of fighting.

Amid the chaos and confusion the world’s largest deployment of United Nations peacekeepers, numbering about 17,000 troops, has so far failed to keep the warring sides apart. With no prospect of peace any time soon, people are still arriving at the camp of Kibati, barely a mile from the front line, even as the UN prepares to move them to a safer site.

Denise Katungu, 20, fled from Kiwanja two weeks ago after villagers were attacked by one side and then the other. Mai Mai guerrillas, who support the Government, launched an assault on Nkunda’s soldiers before pulling back.

The rebels then took revenge on the local population, hunting out suspected Mai Mai sympathisers or anyone else they could blame. Human Rights Watch has said that 50 civilians were killed.

About 60,000 people are now crammed into Kibati. For Denise it is home for the time being. She said that she just wanted an end to the Congo’s chaos, confusion and killing. “I want someone to take the village and tell me to come back, everything is safe,” she said. “I don’t care who wins as long as we can go home.”

War without end

2002-03 Congo’s five-year war – sometimes termed “Africa’s world war” as it drew in Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Rwanda – ends with formation of transitional Government and elections

December 2004 General Laurent Nkunda launches rebellion claiming to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from Hutu militias. The three-way conflict in the east of the country – between Nkunda’s rebels, Hutu militias and government forces – has continued in fits and starts

2006 Presidential and parliamentary polls are held – the first free elections in four decades. Incumbent leader Joseph Kabila wins run-off presidential vote

January 2008 The Government and rebel militias, including that of General Nkunda, sign peace pact

August Peace deal breaks down as heavy clashes erupt in the east of the country between army troops and General Nkunda’s 7,000-strong forces. Nkunda says Congolese Government has not done enough to disarm Hutu militias, responsible for the Rwandan genocide, and that he is unhappy with a £3 billion deal giving China access to region’s mineral resources

October Thousands flee as rebels advance on regional capital, Goma

Over 250,000 displaced as sexual violence erupts in DRC - Times Online

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Congo refugees brave rebels rather than stay in camps

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(CNN) -- Thousands of people who fled fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are crossing back into rebel-held territory because they say conditions at refugee camps are intolerable.

A crowd of refugees gathers at the entrance to a USAID center near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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With no food, water or sanitation in the camps, people have decided that it is worth the risk to return to their homes, even though rebels killed and raped many people just last week, residents told ITN's Jonathan Miller, who is near the city of Goma.

Many of their villages have been looted and emptied of people by the rebels, they said.

Roads were filled with people returning to rebel-held territory, carrying their belongings on their heads or on their backs.

However, others, fearful of fresh violence, continued to leave their homes, overwhelming aid centers. See photos of the refugee camps »

Aid groups were expected to travel into the Congo's rebel-held territory on Sunday to help tens of thousands of people displaced by the latest bout of rebel fighting.

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UN warns over Congo conflict

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is 'deeply concerned' about the ongoing conflict in the Congo.

Speaking at a press conference in Delhi, India, Mr Moon asked for the current ceasefire 'to be kept'.

Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to end the crisis, which has displaced a total of 250,000 people.

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Thousands of Congolese people displaced by recent fighting have left Goma after spending several nights on the streets of the town.

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Congo rebels say capture eastern town of Rutshuru

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DÉCLARATION SUITE À L’URGENCE DE LA SITUATION D’INSÉCURITÉ AU NORD-KIVU

Suite à la situation qui prévaut au Nord-Kivu, et l’insécurité causée par la présence de l’armée rwandaise à l’est du pays, Shirika La Kivu, veut, par la présente déclaration, exprimer son indignation face à la manière dont Kinshasa gère cette crise.

Nous sommes autant surpris qu’outrés par les propos du chef de l’État, lors de son séjour à Goma, qui semble réaliser pour la première fois que le pays est victime d’une énième agression par le Rwanda, par Nkundabatware interposé. Shirika La Kivu l’a pourtant dénoncé à maintes reprises, prévenant l’opinion tant nationale qu’internationale que la guerre à l’est du Congo n’est pas une simple rébellion congolaise, mais bien l’invasion de l’armée rwandaise sur nos terres.

Nous avions dénoncé, en termes forts, la tenue de la conférence de Goma, considérant une telle rencontre, non certes comme une occasion de ramener la paix à l’est, mais plutôt comme une comédie visant à dévier l’opinion publique sur le fait que la Nation est bel et bien agressée par l’expansionnisme rwandais. Shirika La Kivu rappelle que Nkundabatware n’a jamais été un officier de l’armée congolaise; il est toujours resté fidèle à l’Armée patriotique rwandaise, et reçoit les ordres directement de son commandant en chef, Paul Kagame. Ce n’est pas hasard que ce fut Kagame qui avait suggéré, voire imposé, qu’un dialogue soit ouvert avec Nkundabatware, qui n’est autre chose que le chef de son bataillon déployé à l’est du Congo pour une mission de conquête. Toutes les déclarations de Nkundabatware sur différents média vont dans le même sens que celles du régime de Kigali, justifiant l’agression comme une lutte contre la présence des Interahamwe à l’est du Congo. C’est à se demander pourquoi Kinshasa persiste à considérer la guerre de Nkundabatware comme une rébellion congolaise !

Pourtant la jeunesse congolaise, et particulièrement kivutienne, est consciente que le pays est sous menace de l’armée étrangère. Elle est prête, cette jeunesse nationale, à défendre la Nation, pourvu qu’elle soit mobilisée et bien encadrée. Dans un tel élan de patriotisme, Shirika La Kivu s’explique mal comment le gouvernement de Kinshasa ne soit pas encore parvenu à bout de l’infiltration de l’armée rwandaise opérant au Nord-Kivu sous l’appellation de CNDP. Il n’y a que Kinshasa seul qui pense que Kigali est une puissance invincible. Les jeunes kivutiens, prêts à sacrifier leurs vies pour la défense de la Nation, ne croient pas que le Rwanda soit imbattable. Pour des raisons obscures, Kinshasa ferme les oreilles à l’appel de la jeunesse qui ne demande qu’un appui pour défendre le peuple et le territoire.

Kigali a compris que pour épargner sa population des affres de la guerre et protéger ses infrastructures, il doit exporter son conflit Hutu-Tutsi sur le territoire congolais. Les choses resteront ainsi aussi longtemps que ce sera la population congolaise qui en paie le frais. Shirika La Kivu reste donc convaincu qu’il est temps que ceux qui provoquent cette guerre en ressentent les affres. La guerre du Rwanda doit se dérouler au Rwanda.

Eu égard à ce qui vient d’être dit, Shirika La Kivu déclare :

1. La guerre au Nord-Kivu n’est pas une rébellion congolaise, mais plutôt une agression rwandaise.

1. La guerre à l’est aurait déjà pris fin si Kinshasa avait la volonté de la voir finir.

1. La guerre à l’est doit être ramenée d’où elle est venue, c’est-à-dire au Rwanda.

Shirika La Kivu croit que le régime de Kinshasa, incapable de considérer les trois points ci-haut mentionnés, doit démissionner et laisser la place aux vrais patriotes.

Fait à Ottawa, le 06 octobre 2008

Pour Solidarité Shirika La Kivu

Serge Ntamwira

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Conférence pour la Paix, la Sécurité et le Développement - Pourquoi une Conférence sur la Paix

 

Pourquoi une Conférence sur la Paix

30-12-2007

L’idée d’une Conférence sur le Nord-Kivu et le Sud-Kivu vient d’un constat malheureux : pendant que les autres Provinces de la République prennent résolument le chemin de la reconstruction, ces deux provinces s’enlisent dans des problèmes sécuritaires et des violences récurrentes qui entravent le développement et mettent en danger la cohésion nationale!

Il s’agit principalement de la question liée à la présence des groupes armés nationaux et étrangers qui sèment la terreur et la désolation dans ces deux Provinces et de manière spécifique l’épineuse question des Insurgés autour du général déchu Laurent Nkunda au Nord-Kivu et des « Insurgés et Infiltrés » du Sud-Kivu autour du Major Rukunda et Colonel Bisogo.

Ces questions sécuritaires s’imbriquent les unes dans les autres impliquant des conséquences au niveau de la paix entre les communautés et surtout de fâcheuses interactions sur le développement de deux provinces, avec en filigrane l’implication supposée ou tacite des pays voisins de la République Démocratique du Congo selon les intérêts des uns et des autres.

La mise en route de cette Conférence a été précédée par les rencontres de Nganda dans le cadre du schéma primordial d’une « Table Ronde Intercommunautaire ». La documentation et les cahiers de charge élaborés à cet effet sont à verser dans l’actif de la Conférence.

Il y a eu ensuite des rencontres de Parlementaires du Nord_Kivu et du Sud-Kivu ainsi qu’au niveau de la Société Civile.

Par qui la Conférence est-elle organisée?

Par les Communautés des Provinces du Nord-Kivu et du Sud-Kivu avec le soutient du Gouvernement de la République Démocratique du Congo et de la Communauté Nationale et Internationale.

Où et quand se tiendra la Conférence sur la Paix, la Sécurité et le Développement des Provinces du Nord-Kivu et du Sud-Kivu?

A Goma, dans la Province du Nord-Kivu, du  06 janvier 2008 au  14 janvier 2008

Conférence pour la Paix, la Sécurité et le Développement - Pourquoi une Conférence sur la Paix

UNICEF UK News :: News item :: UNICEF scales up emergency response in North Kivu, DRC :: 18 September 2008 00:00

 

UNICEF scales up emergency response in North Kivu, DRC
News item 18 September 2008

Increased fighting over the last two and a half weeks is causing more suffering to children in North Kivu province.  Clashes between different armed groups have forced over 100,000 people to flee their homes, social services to close, and humanitarian organisations to suspend assistance.

“This fighting is again having a brutal impact on the children and women of the Kivus,” commented Julien Harneis, UNICEF eastern DRC’s Chief of Field Operations.  “Many children are split up from their families as they flee; in displacement they are even more vulnerable to malaria, measles, cholera, and malnutrition. Over the last year we were able to bring down rates of malnutrition below emergency levels but this renewed fighting puts that all into question.”

UNICEF UK News :: News item :: UNICEF scales up emergency response in North Kivu, DRC :: 18 September 2008 00:00

AFRORA: Aggregator for African News and Blogs: Dr Congo: March In Lubumbashi Against War In Kivu

 

Dr Congo: March In Lubumbashi Against War In Kivu

APA News - 5 days ago

Several thousands of inhabitants of Lubumbashi, the capital of the province of Katanga, Tuesday took part in a march called "march of anger" to protest against the war being waged by the dissident General Laurent Kunda in the eastern part of DRC, APA ...

AFRORA: Aggregator for African News and Blogs: Dr Congo: March In Lubumbashi Against War In Kivu

Pambazuka News

 

Fighting between Congolese armed forces and dissident troops and militias, as well as widespread human rights violations committed by all groups, has caused the displacement of at least 150,000 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from January to July 2008, mostly in North Kivu province. As a result, at least 1.25 million people were displaced in DRC as of the end of June, two-thirds of them in North Kivu Province.

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"La trahison fait souffrir, ne la laissons pas s'installer"

 

06 août 2008

"On ne parle pas d'un État souverain sur papier" dit Justin BITAKWIRA, député national de la R.D.Congo

Uvira : un député national s’insurge contre la présence des groupes armés
Sud-Kivu

La présence des groupes armés dans les hauts et moyens plateaux d’Uvira constitue un blocage à la décentralisation, constat fait par le député national Justin Bitakwira, après une série des consultations auprès des forces vives et acteurs locaux. Le député déplore les exactions systématiques commises sur les paysans ainsi que les barrières érigées par des groupes armés, rapporte radiookapi.net
Il affirme aussi que plusieurs marchés qui devraient générer des recettes pour les entités locales décentralisées, sont encore occupés et contrôlés par ces groupes Justin Bitakwira demande au gouvernement central d’instaurer l’autorité de l’Etat dans tout le pays.
« Tout ce processus démocratique a été étouffé. Il y a des groupes armés effectivement qui sont nuisibles à la nation et il y en a d’autres qui ne le sont pas. Il faut que la gouvernement central comprenne qu’on ne parle pas d’un Etat souverain sur papier et que la souveraineté doit se vivre au quotidien, qu’il n’y a pas de citoyen plus important ou supérieur à un autre », explique-t-il.
Il faut, estime-t-il, que le gouvernement central joue le rôle qui est le sien, celui d’instaurer l’autorité de l’Etat à travers toute la République démocratique du Congo. Il fait remarquer la présence des insurgés FRF et consorts à Kitembe, Ruruga, Zombo. Enfin, le député Justin Bitakwira pense que le gouvernement central prendra ses responsabilités le jour où il aura conscience et peur du châtiment des élections à venir.
Source: radiookapi.net

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"La trahison fait souffrir, ne la laissons pas s'installer"

ICRC Activities in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo: 1994 - 3 February 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 124 p.): Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health programme in Oriental province

 

ICRC Activities in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo: 1994 - 3 February 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 124 p.)

(introduction...)

Zaire

Zaire/Rwanda/Burundi: ICRC voices acute anxiety

Zaïre: Masisi - a forgotten conflict

Zaire: ICRC resumes activities in Masisi

Zaire, (delegation also covers the Congo)

Zaire: tragic plane crash in Kinshasa

Rwanda/Zaire: “ICRC transit service”

Zaire: new humanitarian emergency in North Kivu

Update No. 96/1 on ICRC activities in Rwanda

South Kivu: ICRC calls for restraint

Update No. 96/1 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Kivu: a major human tragedy in the making

Tribute to Zairian Red Cross volunteers

Great Lakes Region: assistance in Goma

Breaking the humanitarian deadlock in Kivu

Update No. 96/2 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Update No. 96/3 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Great Lakes: ICRC ready to act

Update No. 96/4 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Great Lakes: volunteers in action

Zaire: ICRC operation gets under way

Update No. 96/5 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Update No. 96/6 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Update No. 96/7 on ICRC activities in Zaire

Great lakes: displaced: a zairian’s firsthand account “I had to cover 220 miles on foot”

Update No. 96/8 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 9 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Rwanda: 1,000 children already reunited with their families

Update No. 10 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 11 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 12 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 13 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 14 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 15 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Zaire: ICRC still only organization working in Shabunda

Update No. 16 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Zaire, (delegation also covers the Congo)

Update No. 1 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Rwanda: refugees return to Kamembe

Rwanda: nearly 8,000 children reunited with their families

Update No. 97/02 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian crisis

Update No. 97/03 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict

Update No. 97/04 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict

Zaire: back in Kisangani

Zaire: ICRC demands access to conflict victims

Zaire: airlift for displaced Zairians

Zaire: Lives of thousands of refugees at stave

Zaire: More than 2,000 Zairians back home

Update No. 97/6 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict

Zaire

Zaire: Ten volunteers of the Zairian Red Cross killed in Kenge

Update No. 97/8 on ICRC activities related to the Zairian conflict

Zaire: More work for the tracing agency

Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire): After the storm

Update No. 9 on ICRC activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and neighbouring countries

Rwanda: Do you know this child?

Democratic Republic of Congo: Homeward bound

Update No. 97/10 on ICRC activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire)

Brazzaville and Kinshasa: Medical aid on both sides of the river Congo

Update No. 2 on ICRC activities in Congo-Brazzaville

Brazzaville/Kinshasa: Relief work progressing

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Priority in Kivu given to clean water and medical care

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Displaced people go home on barges

Democratic Republic of the Congo

ICRC denounces killing of employee in Kinshasa

The ICRC condemns and deplores two serious security incidents

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC opens office in Bunia

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health programme in Oriental province

Democratic Republic of the Congo: inauguration of limb-fitting workshop in Kinshasa

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC appeals for compliance with humanitarian rules

Democratic Republic of the Congo: First visits to detainees and water for population

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Water and war

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC gains access to further place of detention in Kinshasa

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Visits to detainees and family news

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Central African Republic: Congolese civilians arrive in Bangui

Democratic Republic of the Congo: ICRC opens an office in Kalemie

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health programme in Oriental province

30 April 1998
ICRC News 98/17

The health programme launched eight months ago by the Belgian Red Cross, to which the ICRC delegated the project, is proving to be a success. The aim of the programme is to carry out repairs and develop primary health care services in seven of the 18 health centres in the Kabondo health district of the Oriental province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“We have specific medical objectives”, explained project leader Dr Vale Alaluf, who is working with a team of locally recruited personnel. “Our goal is basically to attract more people to the centres by providing better treatment and preventive care.”

Dr Alaluf is lending her expertise to upgrade the skills of health centre staff in the care of pregnant women and pre-school children, and is also helping to train midwives.

With the support of the local population, the team renovating the centres has finished work in two towns, Yabiso and Yetu, and in two rural areas, Madula and Wanierukula. The other three centres - Foyer, Konga-Konga and Bafwaboli - will be ready by the end of August 1998.

The results are already visible, and the nurse in charge of Yabiso health centre, Avobuma Sidomie, is overjoyed. “We used to see barely 20 people a day. Since the centre was renovated, the number of daily consultations has doubled and many young mothers are coming to us.”

ICRC Activities in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo: 1994 - 3 February 1999 (International Committee of the Red Cross , 124 p.): Democratic Republic of the Congo: Health programme in Oriental province