27 September 2012: The conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has worsened to such an extent that Congolese staff working for the independent medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in North Kivu province now fear for their safety. Most of the Congolese health workers and support staff employed by MSF in Pinga, a town about 100km from Goma, have fled after active fighting between armed groups in the area. Only five of MSF’s 42 national staff members remain in Pinga while the rest have fled. Ministry of Health personnel have also fled together with around two-thirds of the town’s population. Many are now hiding in... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, September 27th 2012 |
London, August 2012 – The independent humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed its medical activities in Walikale, four weeks after heavy fighting in the town forced the organisation to stop working. “We’re glad to be back providing free medical care,” said Colette Kerr, a nurse heading MSF’s team in Walikale, a town in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Before the suspension, MSF teams were treating over a thousand cases of malaria each week in an emergency programme set up specifically to address an outbreak of the deadly disease. But last month... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 19th 2012 |
London, 18 July 2012 – Heavy fighting over the last few days in Walikale, a town in the troubled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has forced MSF to suspend its medical activities despite the area being in the midst of a malaria outbreak. “The recent fighting and insecurity in Walikale make it impossible for our team to carry out their medical work,” said Andrew Mews, MSF’s Head of Mission in Goma. “We’re very concerned about civilians living in the area who are exposed to this violence and also denied healthcare as a result,” he added. MSF started an emergency malaria intervention in Walikale in June... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 18th 2012 |
KINSHASA, 13 July 2012 (IRIN) – Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have assured leaders of the Tutsi community they are working to protect Tutsis across the country amid rising resentment sparked by a mutiny led mainly by Tutsi soldiers in the east. Minister of Security and Internal Affairs Charles Muyej said he had given instructions to this effect to governors across the vast country. “I think we have to realize that we are one people with many components. This diversity is an asset for our country. We insist that this is not the time to discriminate because... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 15th 2012 |
As Congolese women, we’re extremely concerned that millions of Congolese women, men, girls and children have been violently raped and mutilated over the past decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and still are while the world watches in silence. Our aim is to raise awareness and tell the truth of what is really happening, expose the underlying forces that produce the war, rapes and the biblical suffering of the people of Congo in order to help people grasp the reality of the crisis. “No report could sufficiently describe the horror that the civil populations in Zaire, which became the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, June 3rd 2012 |
