UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
The heavy fighting in North Kivu, DRC, intensified in November, causing the displacement of thousands of people towards Goma, the provincial capital. Fighting was concentrated around the towns of Kibumba and Ruthshuru. Kibumba was already home to 17,000 displaced people who were residing in spontaneous makeshift camps. All 17,000 were displaced again.
�We�re now seeing thousands of people displaced for the second, third and even fourth time in North Kivu", said Julien Harneis, Chief of Field Operations for UNICEF in Eastern DRC. "The effects of these recurrent displacements are devastating for children and for women. Under such conditions, there is always the risk of cholera and measles outbreak, and increased cases of malnutrition among children. If there�s no reprieve in the fighting and displacements, the consequences will be life-threatening for the children and their families."
Left: A young girl, displaced by recent fighting, collects firewood in Kibati Camp.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young girl who has been displaced by recent fighting, collects water from a water point, supported by UNICEF, in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young boy, whose family have been displaced by recent fighting sits on a desk made of a lava rock, at Badalebe School that is supported by UNICEF, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young boy stands next to some latrines constructed with the support of UNICEF at a camp for displaced people at Buhimba, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young child, whose family is fleeing from renewed fighting, sits under a blanket on top of a truck, outside Kiwanja, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 17th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A mother, displaced by recent fighting, lies behind her young daughter who is suffering from cholera at at a cholera treatment center, in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young girl, who has been displaced by recent fighting in Kanyabayunga, and who has been separated from her parents, walks along a road near Kiwanja, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 17th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A child lies in the cholera treatment center in the general hospital in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 18th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young girl, who has been displaced by recent fighting sits in a makeshift classroom, supported by UNICEF, near Mugunga camp for displaced people near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
Three young children try to sleep in a hall that is housing over two hundred families displaced by recent fighting in Nygangi Orphanage in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A mother and her child who have been displaced by recent fighting, sit in a large tent that is housing over thirty families in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A boy who has lost his leg to cancer walks towards a food distribution point in Kibati camp for displaced people, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young boy carries water at a camp for displaced people in Kibati, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
Children play with a group leader at in a "child friendly space", a UNICEF initiative, organized by AVSI in Kibati camp for displaced people, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
Children play with a group leader at in a "child friendly space", a UNICEF initiative, organized by AVSI in Kibati camp for displaced people, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A group of children, displaced by recent fighting, stand watching another group of children play in a "Child Friendly Space", a UNICEF initiative, organised by AVSI, in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A woman waits with her young child at a food distribution point in Kibati near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A woman who has been displaced by recent fighting collects water from a water point that has been funded by UNICEF in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
Children who have been displaced by recent fighting stand behind a fence that encloses the area where their families are now living under plastic sheeting in a field near Nygangi Orphanage in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young child lies on a piece of plastic sheeting where her family sleeps in a shelter for displaced people in Nygangi Orphanage in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A boy lies in the cholera treatment center in the general hospital in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A girl and her younger brother stand in front of their families tent, that is now their temporary home after being displaced by renewed fighting in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A young child looks at a mosquito net that has been distributed by UNICEF to her mother in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 23rd November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
Save the children workers take details from young girls who have lost their parents because they have been displaced due to renewed fighting, at a Child reunification center, run by Save the Children, and supported by UNICEF in Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 26th November, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A mother looks on her smiling baby at a vaccination center, that is being supported by UNICEF, in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 15th December, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A woman who is eight months pregnant, and suffering from malria, lies in hospital, with her young child, who is also suffering from malaria, in the bed behind, at a health centerin the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 13th December, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A woman who was raped by soldiers, and had to be admitted to hospital sits on her bed in a UNICEF supported hospital specialising in gynacological complications in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 15th December, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A father feeds his youngest child, who is suffering from malnutrition, after its mother died in childbirth, at a therapeutic feeding centre in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 15th December, 2008.
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UNICEF, DR Congo
December 2008
A nurse, working for the International Mercy Corps, gives a mother and her child some medication at a health post that is supported by UNICEF in Kibati camp for displaced people, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 24th November, 2008.
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