Thirty Congolese refugees, living in Uganda, were sent off Friday, September 11th at Nobili border in Beni (North Kivu). The local population says they aren't ready to receive these deported CONGOLESE.There were protests on streets of Nobili to demand that they be repatriated by major border crossings such as Kasindi, Bunagana or even Goma.
Local civil society president David Muwaze explains this demand by the fact that the Nobili border does not have the tools necessary to insure measures against COVID-19:
′′ Youth, hearing this, considered foreign subjects who want to enter illegal ways in the DRC. So that's why they woke up this morning. So we exchanged with our Ugandan neighbors about their entrance and said the nearest way is to go through Bunagana or Kasindi; because there are the conditions that are met for barriers measures (against COVID-19). ′′
Bunagana or Kasindi, according to him, is the closest way for the expelled to reach Masisi, Kalehe ′′ because they are all subjects from the territories of Masisi, Rutshuru and Kalehe in South Kivu ".
UNHCR's head of office in Beni, Ibrahima Ndiaye, says he has been informed of this situation and promises to speak out soon. Calm has returned to Nobili and activities resumed normally.
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