Last year, a frightened 22-year-old Bendele Mpoyi Dallas of Jake Village in Nord Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was captured by rebels when they attacked his village.
Last year, a frightened 22-year-old Bendele Mpoyi Dallas of Jake Village in Nord Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo , was captured by rebels when they attacked his village.
Efforts to try and locate them or find out if they are still alive through the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's Restoring Family Links programme at the Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge, Manicaland, have not yielded any positives as the fighting is still raging on in Nord Kivu, preventing access to Red Cross volunteers.
For Mukuta Jojo who fled to Zimbabwe with his four brothers from their village in Beneleke in Kananga Province in the DRC in 2017, the story is almost similar. ZRCS secretary general, Mr Elias Hwenga, said his organisation, with technical and financial support from the International Committee of the Red Cross , is implementing the RFL programme in TRC among other areas in the country."The RFL programme aims to prevent family separation, restore and maintain family contact, reunite families, and clarify the fate of missing persons.
He explained that the RFL also facilitates family reconnection through three-minute phone calls to re-establish contact and provides for the trace the face facility
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