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 […]
Read More… from DRC: The health benefits of community engagement in the northeast
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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In the last two years, the unrest ravaging eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited resources and land with equally vulnerable populations. “We heard […]
The tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which struck the eastern part of the country between 2018 and early 2020, went on to become the largest in the country’s history. The eleventh outbreak, currently underway in Équateur province, in the country’s west, looks quite different from its predecessor: it proceeds at […]
On June 1, 2020, a new Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was declared in Équateur province, western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s eleventh recorded epidemic. Declared while DRC was still grappling with the tenth Ebola epidemic in the country’s northeast, and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new Ebola outbreak has already spread to […]
Read More… from DRC: Responding to the new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province
By David Walubila Mwinyi, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Medical Data Supervisor in South Kivu, Demcratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Overshadowed by outbreaks of Ebola last year and by COVID-19 today, the measles epidemic in DRC continues to kill children every day.
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