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.”
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