1502 displaced congolese helplessly stranded in kalungu after fleeing clashes in Rutare and muko

A total of 1,502 displaced people who fled the clashes in Rutare and Muko are unassisted and stranded in the town of Kalungu in the Kalehe territory in South Kivu.

According to Hakizimana Bwira Moïse, spokesperson for these displaced persons, they do not have food and sick children do not have access to health care.

"More than 500 displaced people have come from Rutare and others from Muko to Masisi in North Kivu. The lives of all these displaced people are in danger. They have no food, children are caught hand in the bag in the fields and patients do not even have medicines, "he said on this wednesday.

He calls on the authorities and humanitarian organizations to provide assistance to these displaced people in order to save their lives.

It should be remembered that clashes between armed groups are recurrent in the territory of Kalehe and in the surrounding entities.