In 2002, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people living with HIV in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Twenty years later, while great progress has been achieved in the country, major gaps remain in testing and treatment, causing thousands […]
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Tens of thousands of people have sought safety in informal camps at Kanyaruchinya and the surrounding areas, ten kilometres north of Goma. They have fled the renewed fighting between the March 23 movement (M23) and the Congolese army in the region of Rutshuru. An urgent response from humanitarian actors is required to meet the […]
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Over recent weeks, an upsurge of inter-communal violence in the territory of Kwamouth has seen people being chased and killed, houses and villages burnt to the ground, roadblocks set up to intercept perceived enemies, and thousands of people fleeing their homes to the forest or crossing the Kwa river to find shelter in improvised […]
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Four months after a convoy of vehicles belonging to international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) came under fire by unidentified armed men in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF has announced that it will close its projects in Nizi and Bambu due to a lack of security guarantees from all […]
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Overwhelming violence has tormented people in Djugu’s territory, Ituri’s province, north-east of the DRC since 2017, as community tensions have sparked the resurgence of an armed conflict.
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Read More… from DRC: Despite calm, cycle of violence set to repeat in Ituri province
On October 28, 2021, a team of five people from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), travelled to the Bambu health district in Ituri province to assist isolated communities. When the team were travelling back at around 15:50, unidentified gunmen fired at the MSF vehicle for an unexplained reason, with two members of the […]
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Angumu is a mountainous area in Ituri province, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the Ugandan border. It is a remote place and reaching the communities that live there can be challenging. The few roads that run through the mountain forest are reminiscent of dried river beds, uneven and full of loose stones […]
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In light of the magnitude and the impact of the sexual violence in the country, MSF calls on the Congolese authorities and their partners to act now, in line with the medical, legal and socioeconomic needs that we observe.
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Boga’s General Referral Hospital, which is supported by MSF, has been the target of a deliberate attack in the context of ongoing clashes in the city.
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Read More… from DRC: MSF General Hospital looted and burnt down
By Magali Roudaut, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following order by the authorities to partially evacuate the city of Goma due to the risk of further eruptions and earthquakes, MSF is doing its best to ensure its staff is in safety while ensuring continuation of operations. […]
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