Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo emergency: next 24 hours are critical, warn United Nations (UN) agencies
The corpse was lying on the street, and the hospital was at a loss, and the reports of sexual violence, rape and robbery increased.
The United Nations World Grain Program spokesman Shelley Thakral said: “The road is blocked, the port is closed, and the risk of people who pass through the Lake Kowo.”WFP) – One of many United Nations agencies on the ground, trying to provide assistance and protection under possible circumstances. “I delivered a speech with a radical of Goma for a moment. He told me, ‘We are here, we hid. We don’t know who will help us.'”
United Nations Aid Coordination Office, OCHAIt responded to the deep attention of humanitarian communities for spiral violence in the entire area with rich resources. These violence set up 300,000 people from the camp near Goma within a few days.
Aid goal
OCha spokesman Jens Laerke said: “Our colleagues in our Democratic Republic of the Congo report that the entire city is spread throughout the city and there are many corpses on the street.” The rape and rape reports of the robbery property, including humanitarian warehouses, and humanitarian and sanitary facilities. “
According to reports, the emergency situation caused Goma’s hospital to be overwhelmed. The injured person, the power and water supply “compromised”, cut off the Internet service on Monday. Mr. Lalek said in Geneva: “Goma is still offline this morning.”
In the international community, including Security Council In New York, the Ambassador requested to stop the M23 rebels immediately on Tuesday and called on the organization to withdraw from its occupied territory.
Ambassador reiterated their support for the United Nations of the Dr. Congo’s Dr. Congress. MonuscoAnd pay tribute to the blue helmets from South Africa, Malawi and Uruguay in recent days.
The committee also condemned the existence of the “external forces” in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-It is reported that the Rwanda army has participated in a large number of offensives and called on all parties to continue to stop fire and return diplomatic talks.
Years of crisis
Prior to the latest violence upgrade of Kivus, the latest Congo Democratic Republic, about 5.1 million people were displaced due to the unshanding sense of minerals with rich minerals, and they were forced to live in a full -scale camp. There is no sense of security.
The United Nations agencies and partners continue to monitor the high degree of instability, which forces the Food Planning Department to temporarily suspend the grain aid activities near Goma. WFP’s Thakral said: “The airports and main channels in the area have been cut off … Depending on the duration of the violence, it may seriously hinder the supply of food to the city.”
“This is a huge test that Congo people trapped in the fighting in Goma and the surrounding areas … The next 24 hours is vital to be very important, because people are starting to supply low supply, and they need to see what they can find to find. Survive.”
Worry
The high liquidity of emergency situation prompts people to worry that existing diseases may spread rapidly among the most uproot people, although preventive measures are taken before the latest upgrade, that is, the United Nations World Health Organization (the United Nations World Health Organization)Who) explain.
At present, it is directly concerned about helping violent victims.
Drc’s emergency response coordinator Dr. Adelhead MarsChang said: “At present, hundreds of people in the hospital are in the hospital, and most people have received gunshot wounds and shell wounds, and secondary infections have become healthy risks.”
She pointed out that before Gobma Airport closed on Saturday, he had sent key medical supplies for trauma and emergency care, prevention, and cholera and others.
The response of the United Nations agency to the crisis also includes providing tents for hospitals to cope with the increase in the number of injuries. It owns medical hubs in the North and Bukavu cities of the city of GOMA and Bukavu to support the medical and health care needs of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dr. Marschang said that last year in the northern and southern provinces reported choice, measles and malaria cases and deaths in the northern and southern regions. It warned that “the” cholera overflow risk “for neighboring countries and provinces was higher.
The area is also the center of the outbreak of MPOX, and in August 2024, it announced an emergency attention of international public health. Dr. Marschang warned that new displacement will become increasingly difficult to track and treat diseases.
WHO officials said that in the fatal violence, hospitals and health workers themselves are in danger, “reports of gun killing workers and patients arrested in Crossfire in Crossfire.”
“The attack on healthcare violated the rules of war. She insisted that he must always protect healthcare.
Sexual violence
Who and other United Nations agencies and partners said that they are particularly worried about the increase in risk of violent women and girls including rape.
He said: “Even before the violence is upgraded, pregnant women are in danger, and the maternal mortality rate is very high.”
“Sadly, hospitals and health workers are in danger. We are hearing reports about sanitary workers being shot, including patients, including infants, are arrested in crossfires. The rules of war must always protect healthcare. “
Ms. Thakral’s Thakral responded to these concerns, and the report said that the mobile team and the mobile clinic were working. Some reports said that women were raped many times when they were looking for firewood, or left around the camp.
She said: “The rape of the road to entering the road of Nanjiwa along some conflict partners has increased.”
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