Reference :
V-P-CD-E-01694
Date :
11/01/2013
Caption :
South Kivu, north-west of Bukavu, Ninja territory. Evacuation of four ailing adults and six children, three of them severely malnourished, from a remote area to health centres in Bukavu.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Four ICRC employees and 46 volunteers from the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took part in the evacuation.
Three of the adults, who were very weak, had to be borne on stretchers; the volunteers carried the children on their backs.
ICRC website
Operational Update 01-02-2013
DR Congo: civilians suffer amid shifting centres of violence
For tens of thousands of displaced and resident families in the eastern part of the country, January has been a constant struggle to find food, water and a semblance of security. The city of Goma and nearby parts of North Kivu have been relatively calm, violence has spread to other regions.
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Aid to displaced people and medical evacuations in South Kivu
In the Masisi area, more than 23,500 people displaced over the last three months of 2012 by inter-community clashes received emergency food aid and tarpaulins at the end of December. They also received cooking pots, buckets, sleeping mats and other items in January.
"Violence between armed groups is now on the rise again in South Kivu," said Laetitia Courtois, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in the province. "The fighting is getting closer and closer to the city of Bukavu. At the same time, clashes are affecting remote areas, such as the Kalehe territory to the north of Bukavu, and the Walungu and Shabunda territories to the south-west."
During January, the ICRC transferred a dozen people wounded in the fighting from Walungu to hospitals in Bukavu. In addition, the ICRC moved six severely malnourished children to Bukavu from the Kabare territory, where access is extremely difficult.
Over 5,500 people in the Ninja territory north-west of Bukavu received vegetable seed and sweet-potato cuttings. They will be able to grow these throughout the year, on small plots of land, and the first crops will be ready three months after sowing. The ICRC has also repaired fish ponds in the area and distributed tilapia fingerlings to 60 families.
In North and South Kivu provinces, the relative calm in certain areas has enabled the ICRC to resume its support for health centres and for centres that are helping rape victims. An extremely volatile security situation and the urgent need to treat casualties had interrupted these activities in November and December.
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digital
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3264x2448
Orientation :
landscape
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colour
