Reports

Kinshasa/Geneva, 18 December - UNEP has initiated a water scheme in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that aims to protect the Lukaya river basin that supplies almost 380,000 Kinshasa residents with safe drinking water. The project…

FAITS MARQUANTS • NORD-KIVU : 914 000 personnes déplacées, dont environ 500 000 depuis avril, début de la crise du M23 • SUD-KIVU : 42 000 personnes déplacées suite à l’activisme des groupes armés dans les Territoires d’Uvira…

Autour de Goma, plus de 100 000 personnes vivent dans des conditions extrêmement précaires. Depuis mi-novembre une nouvelle vague de déplacement massif a fait suite aux affrontements entre les forces armées de la RDC (FARDC) et…

Period covered by this update: 14 November to 10 December, 2012. Summary: CHF 131,815 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 31 August, 2012 to support the Democratic Republic of Congo Red Cross…

HIGHLIGHTS According to OCHA, over 900,000 people are currently displaced in North Kivu; an estimated 500,000 of these have been displaced since the FARDC-M23 conflict began in April. The measles vaccination campaign in camps in and around Goma…

Vienna, Austria, December 12, 2012. The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), meeting in its 141st Session, has approved 22 loans and grants totaling nearly US$300 million to boost socio-economic development in…

Since 2009, the humanitarian situation in Kalemie, in the Province of Katanga has considerably deteriorated due to tensions between armed groups that have provoked the displacement of populations heading towards the province of South Kivu. The…

Faits saillants Recrutement de mineurs par les Raïa Mutomboki dans le Territoire de Shabunda Les humanitaires appuient les autorités sanitaires dans la lutte contre le choléra à Uvira. Accès à l’eau potable pour 5 000 ménages en Territoire de…

The government of the Republic of Korea has decided to provide refugees of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with humanitarian assistance worth 200,000 US dollars through UNICEF. Congolese refugees have suffered from the recent armed…

HIGHLIGHTS/ KEY PRIORITIES -Over 900,000 people are currently living as displaced in North Kivu; an estimated 500,000 have been displaced since the FARDC-M23 crisis began in April -WFP wraps up food distribution for 160,000 IDPs, more food on the…