Rough estimates say that DRC has more than six million internally displaced people, mainly concentrated in Ituri, North and South Kivu.
Like her, Justine had tears in her eyes as she recounted the death of her sister, killed with her son with the family on the run.The locality of Komanda, a destination for those fleeing the violence, hosts around 40,000 displaced people who, according to the local humanitarian community, get by with very little assistance.
In Bunia, another displacement camp set up in the town in 2019 is home to more than 14,000 whose already worrying situation has been getting even worse given an ongoing spate of att acks on several nearby villages."That represents 40 percent of the population of the province. It's a truly shocking figure," Bruno Lemarquis, coordinator for UN humanitarian agencies in the DRC after a visit to Komanda.
Clashes between different militia between 1999 and 2003 left thousands dead in Ituri and, after a decade of calm, the unrest resumed in 2017.DRC has more than six million internally displaced people, mainly concentrated in Ituri, North and South Kivu. Photo: AFP Soldiers moved out from neighbouring provinces, including Ituri, to intervene there and this created a"security vacuum that other armed groups rushed into," said Lemarquis.Provincial governor General Johnny Luboya N'kashama has said the state has"limited resources" and is doing what it can.
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