For more than two years in the DRC, displaced people have found refuge near Goma, the capital of North Kivu. They are fleeing the fighting between the army and the M23 rebels. But in these makeshift camps, the newly displaced people lack everything.
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With our correspondent in Goma, William Basimike
In front of the small door of her tarpaulin tent of approximately 2.5 meters, Uzamukunda Clémence, coming from the territory of Rutshurutries to calm one of her children who is crying desperately “at cause of famine “. “ Starvation risks killing some people here. The situation is not good. All we want is for the war to end so everyone can return to their homes », she says, taking refuge in the Don Bosco displaced persons camp in Ngangi, at the foot of the Nyiragongo volcano.
Right next door, Vumilia Maguru, in her fifties, looks up. She worries about the threat of rain. “ I suffer in this Congo. Look at the state of the tarpaulin in which I spend the night with my four children “, she says.
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A little further away, Albert Mubawa, father of seven children, is originally from Kibumba. He admits, the situation is very difficult: “ Newly displaced people have been arriving here since January. There are some who come from Kibumba, Masisi, Rutshuru… We need food aid, clothes and to send our children to school “. And to add: “ We have been living this situation of repeated war for a long time since the days of the RCD, the CNDP, and now it is M23. Now we are tired. The government can’t even find us another place where we can live better “.
The president of Nyiragongo civil society, Mambo Kawaya, urges the Congolese government to focus more on the humanitarian issue of the displaced. But above all to bring peace so that they return to their respective territories as quickly as possible.
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