World Humanitarian Day 2009 – DRC
Posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
As World Humanitarian Day approaches, I have just returned from a five-day visit to Masisi, in North Kivu Province – part of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that’s been hardest hit by conflict over recent decades.
Tens of thousands of people, who have been displaced numerous times by warring national and regional groups, are eeking out a living on what should be fertile soil. Many are not so lucky. There are more than 200,000 internally displaced in Masisi. Some 10,000 of them are living in camps in the Masisi town center. Read the rest of this entry »
