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DRC’s Volcano-Displaced Still Homeless, Squeezed by Conflict IDPs
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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: DRC VOLCANO IDPS (TV/R)
HEADLINE: DRC’s Volcano-Displaced Still Homeless, Squeezed by Conflict IDPs
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PUBLISHED AT: 3/08/23 at 2:10pm
BYLINE: RUTH OMAR ESTHER
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DATELINE: Munigi, DRC
VIDEOGRAPHER: ESDRAS TSONGO
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SCRIPT EDITORS: Schearf, DLJ
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFPTV
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X
TRT: 2:24
VID APPROVED BY: MAS
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EDITOR NOTES: Radio intros scripted below for Production to version for radio.))
((INTRO)) It's been almost two years since a volcanic eruption in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo forced the evacuation and displacement of nearly half a million people. Thousands are still living in camps. Renewed fighting between the DRC’s military and rebels has pushed more people into the camps, stretching aid that was already in short supply. Ruth Esther reports from Munigi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
((NARRATOR))
Beatrice Baremerho’s family is one of 20,000 that lost their homes during the 2021 Nyiragongo volcano eruption.
They have been living ever since in the Kayembe displacement camp with hundreds of others.
Renewed fighting since November between the Congolese military and March 23 Movement rebels pushed hundreds more people into camps, stretching resources and security.
Baremerho’s 17-year-old daughter was on her way to cut wood in January when she was attacked and raped.
((Beatrice Baremerho, Displaced by Volcano (Kiswahili, ?? secs))
“She is in the hospital. There is nothing to eat. We suffer with this life in the camp. She only eats the food of other sick people. It has been two years we are living in this camp, and without any help, we are suffering.”
(( Radio version ))
She is in the hospital, Beatrice says. There is nothing to eat. We suffer with this life in the camp. She only eats the food of other sick people. It has been two years we are living in this camp, Beatrice says, and without any help, we are suffering.
((NARRATOR))
The U.N. says clashes between the Congolese military and rebels in the past year displaced more than 600,000 people in North Kivu province, many ending up in camps like Kayembe near the city of Goma.
Authorities gave some of the volcano-displaced people materials to rebuild their homes on top of the lava.
But the 600 families left in Kayembe say they’ve received nothing.
((Bahati Marie, Representative of the Displaced (Kiswahili, 21 secs))
“First, we want something to eat. Secondly, we want to be taken out of here. The others got tiles, but we got nothing. We also want those tiles to go and rebuild our houses.”
((Radio version, Kiswahili, estab and fade))
Bahati Marie, a representative for the volcano IDPs, says the 600 families left in Kayembe have received nothing.
((RADIO: Bahati Marie, Volcano IDPs Representative, Kiswahili, estab and fade ))
First, he says, we want something to eat. Secondly, we want to be taken out of here. The others got tiles, but we got nothing, he says. We also want those tiles to go and rebuild our houses.
((NARRATOR))
Nyiragongo Civil Society President Mambo Kawaya says the fighting-displaced and the volcano-displaced are competing for aid.
((Mambo Kawaya, Nyiragongo Civil Society President, (French, 20 secs))
“We believe that the government should provide tiles to the volcano eruption victims. That way, they can leave the sites they are occupying and make way for the displaced until the areas that are occupied by the enemy come under government control.”
((Radio version, French, estab and fade ))
He says, we believe that the government should provide tiles to the volcano eruption victims. That way, they can leave the sites they are occupying and make way for the fighting-displaced until the areas that are occupied by the enemy come under government control.
((NARRATOR))
Congolese authorities in the region did not respond to requests for comment on the volcano-displaced people.
Meanwhile, Burundian troops arrived this week in Goma as part of an East African Community force that hopes to bring peace to the region.
((Ruth Omar Esther, for VOA News, Munigi, Democratic Republic of Congo.))
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