Tens of thousands of people are still displaced in Rutshuru and Nyiragongo territories due to the renewed conflict between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army in North Kivu.
The northern province of Cabo Delgado is one of Mozambique’s most volatile regions, the scene of an intense conflict since October 2017, resulting in some 800,000 people fleeing from their homes. These are the latest developments.
Sami Al-Subaihi is MSF’s Emergency Project Coordinator in Twic County in Warrap State, South Sudan. He shares his urgent concerns for more than 20,000 people who fled violent clashes in and around Agok in Abyei Special Administrative Area, more than four months ago, and who are now living in six makeshift displacement camps.
Most people have settled in the open, and many still lack the basic essentials like shelter, food and clean water. Humanitarian assistance must be urgently scaled up to ensure the situation does not deteriorate before the rainy season sets in.
Anja Wolz, MSF Emergency Coordinator currently based in Lviv, Ukraine, explains the urgency of this stage of the humanitarian response.
MSF has been responding to the urgent needs of the displaced population in four locations in Twic County, South Sudan. However the needs remain massive and urgent
More than 14,000 people have been forced to leave their homes on account of the escalating conflict and are now in search of safety and the basic means of survival.
Paulo Milanesio is a project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Mueda, a town in the north of the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge from ongoing conflict.
