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HEADLINE: Rebel Groups Displace Thousands in the DRC
TEASER: Aid organizations say camps for the internally displaced lack essentials such as food, clean water, and medical facilities
PUBLISHED AT:
BYLINE: Paul Ndiho
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DATELINE: SAKE CAMP, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
VIDEOGRAPHER: Paul Ndiho
VIDEO EDITOR:
SCRIPT EDITORS: Salem Solomon, Reifenrath
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original, The International Committee of the Red Cross courtesy videos
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TRT: 3:26
VID APPROVED BY: KE
TYPE: TVPKG
EDITOR NOTES: For questions and final review, send it back to Africa Division’s senior editor, Salem Solomon, email: salemsolomon@voanews.com, Africa Division’s executive producer, Betty Ayoub, email: bayoub@voanews.com.))
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[[Western leaders have provided Ukraine financial and military support in its fight against Russian aggression. Some humanitarian organizations say that has affected the amount of aid going other countries, like the Democratic Republic of Congo. VOA’s Paul Ndiho visited the Sake camp in the eastern province of North Kivu. ]]
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Gatto Francine, a mother of six, has lived for 10 months in the Sake camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC.
She fled her hometown of Kalenga because of attacks by the M23 rebel group, which has been terrorizing the region. She says that life is hard in the camp, and she sometimes has to beg for food.
((Gatto Francine, Sake IDP Camp Resident)) ((Female, in Swahili))
“I ran from my village because of the war waged by M23. When they reached our place in Kalenga, they threw a bomb at my house, so we ran away. I didn’t even bring anything with me.”
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Like Francine, this 15-year-old boy who provided only his first name, Sam, has been displaced by conflict in the region. He was hit by a stray bullet and is now recovering after undergoing surgery in Sake camp.
This mobile medical clinic and emergency surgical unit has been treating Sam and others who need urgent care.
It was established by the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern DRC.
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((Courtesy ICRC))
According to the UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, as of March, more than 880-thousand people have been forced from their homes in eastern DRC since March 2022, when violence surged.
Anne-Sylvie Linder, ICRC’s head of subdelegation in Goma, says people here need physical and emotional help.
((Anne-Sylvie Linder, ICRC Goma)) ((Female, in English))
“We are also working in the health field, particularly in mental health, because the people have been affected by the displacement, and combat sometimes has been very tough and has many casualties.”
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The ICRC is providing much-needed humanitarian aid to people in the camp. Linder says her organization’s work in the DRC is challenging due to a financing shortage.
((Anne-Sylvie Linder, ICRC Goma)) ((Female, in English))
“All these crises have been like a challenge. I’m talking about the number of people displaced. And it’s overcome every capacity of any international organization. So, we have to work a lot together.”
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Linder says that money that might have come to them is now going to Ukraine, and that people in the DRC must fend for themselves.
((Anne-Sylvie Linder, ICRC Goma)) ((Female, in English))
“A lot of financing is going to Ukraine, for example, and other crises. So, insufficient financing is coming to DRC because it has been like a protracted crisis.”
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Despite financial strains, the ICRC provides support to several hospitals, including Bethesda-Ndosho in Goma, the general hospital in Beni, the provincial hospital in Bukavu and a surgery program in Bukavu.
((Paul Ndiho, VOA News, Sake IDP Camp, Democratic Republic of Congo))
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