BUNIA: Peace seems out of reach and aid is in short supply. In camps for displaced people in DR Congo's war-torn eastern province of Ituri, despair is...
Justine, who was discplaced because of conflict, sits in front of her clay-walled hut in Komanda, Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 30, 2023. AFPPIX: Peace seems out of reach and aid is in short supply. In camps for displaced people in DR Congo's war-torn eastern province of Ituri, despair is growing on the back of violent horrors experienced amid a feeling of abandonment.
They compete with a shoal of local militia to outdo each other in barbarity -- one such group being Codeco , which is accused of killing at least 15 people last month in a fishing camp. In Bunia, another displacement camp set up in the town in 2019 is home to more than 14,000 whose already worrying situation has been getting even worse given an ongoing spate of attacks on several nearby villages.“That represents 40 percent of the population of the province. It’s a truly shocking figure,“ Bruno Lemarquis, coordinator for UN humanitarian agencies in the DRC after a visit to Komanda.
Over the past year, humanitarian needs have risen still further “owing to new conflicts or the resurgence of others”, according to Lemarquis, such as the M23 rebellion in North Kivu.
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