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“We are profoundly disappointed”: MSF statement on Canada’s response to our petition to step up humanitarian assistance in eastern DRC

Posted on 21 June 2024 (21 June 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

The Government of Canada recently issued a formal response to a petition supported by international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calling on Canada to increase its humanitarian assistance for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where millions of people are in desperate need as a result of a violent armed conflict and the […]

DRC: civilians caught in the crossfire in the Kivus

Posted on 24 May 2024 (24 May 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Marie Brun is an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She provides an update on the intensification of fighting between several armed groups, including the M23, and the Congolese armed forces since the start of the year, and the consequences […]

One of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises is taking place in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Posted on 29 April 2024 (29 April 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Amid a daunting number of high-profile international emergencies consuming global attention in recent months, a massive humanitarian crisis has been causing widespread suffering in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past two years, seemingly out of sight for much of the world. Since March 2022, an estimated 1.6 million people who live near […]

DRC: “We fear a flare up of disease again”

Posted on 2 April 2024 (2 April 2024) by abubaker

As fighting displaces thousands of people in North and South Kivu, MSF is concerned about spread of disease due to overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions Two years of violent fighting between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army (FARDC) and its allies in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) intensified late […]

Women on the move: mothers’ stories from Kanyaruchinya, North Kivu

Posted on 12 March 2024 (13 March 2024) by manpreet

Over the past two years, more than one million women, men and children have fled the ongoing fighting in the DRC’s North Kivu province. More than half of them have sought refuge near the provincial capital of Goma, with many living in inhumane conditions on improvised sites where everything is lacking: decent shelter, water, food, […]

Small voices: a glimpse into the world of the youngest victims in conflict torn Ituri province

Posted on 27 February 2024 (27 February 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Ituri province, in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been gripped for decades by recurring cycles of violence. Since mid-February there has been a resurgence of attacks, many of them targeting civilians, resulting in significant casualties, especially among women and children. In response to people’s critical medical needs in the province, in […]

In Eastern DRC, needs are everywhere as displacement reach unprecedented levels

Posted on 26 February 2024 (28 February 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the humanitarian crisis has reached dramatic proportions in 2023, with massive levels of violence and displacement. In North Kivu, armed clashes linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group have forced up to 1 million people to flee their homes. Often overshadowed, the provinces of Ituri and […]

DRC: People and medical facilities caught in crossfire as armed violence escalates in North Kivu

Posted on 8 February 2024 (8 February 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Medical facilities supported by teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have received huge influxes of war-wounded patients as thousands of people flee the latest waves of armed clashes in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With civilians and medical facilities caught in the crossfire, MSF urgently calls on all […]

DRC: a “total dead end” for displaced people in Goma

Posted on 4 October 2023 (1 February 2024) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

More than one million people have fled the fighting linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of them currently live in complete destitution in overcrowded camps in Goma, the provincial capital, and the surrounding area. Claire Magone, MSF-France’s Executive […]

DRC: The daily struggles of women in Goma’s displacement camps

Posted on 19 September 2023 (28 September 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

For hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps around Goma, survival is a daily struggle, especially for women. Every day, around 701 women who are survivors of sexual assault present themselves at the structures set up by MSF in the Lushagala, Bulengo, Elohim, Shabindu, Rusayo and Kanyaruchinya sites – an unacceptable situation. The […]