The United Nations sounded the alarm on Monday over 'rampant violence and rising humanitarian needs' in the violence-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since March 2022, 2.8 million people have been forced to leave their homes in three volatile provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN saysKIVU - The United Nations sounded the alarm on Monday over"rampant violence and rising humanitarian needs" in the violence-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Leading relief officials have"triggered an immediate scale-up of humanitarian operations" in eastern DR Congo"following months of relentless violence and rising humanitarian needs", the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement. Last week, at least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in the north east of the country."The brutality unleashed by armed groups on local communities and the depth of people’s humanitarian need is unparalleled," Bruno Lemarquis, humanitarian coordinator in DR Congo, said in the statement."We are fully committed to this scale-up in our response.
Since March 2022, 2.8 million people have been forced from their homes in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces, according to OCHA.
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