January 2009

Tens of thousands displaced after ‘Christmas attacks’ in Haut Uélé, DRC

January 30th, 2009
News, Uélé dossier
Tens of thousands displaced after ‘Christmas attacks’ in Haut Uélé, DRC
More than three weeks after the ‘Christmas attacks’ on the towns of Faradje and Doruma in Haut Uélé, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) combatants are continuing their devastating assaults against civilians closer and closer to Dungu, in Eastern Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). New victims add to the previous ones without anyone being able [...]

Cholera

January 21st, 2009
Blogs, Maartje
Cholera. A disease that until recently I only knew from my tropical disease books, stories and TV programmes. I found it rather exciting when the first cholera patient appeared in our hospital. A young woman was brought in on a stretcher. Completely exhausted and dehydrated, she showed almost no reaction signs. However, her diarrhoea and [...]

“Only after five days we dared to bury the bodies”

January 19th, 2009
Eyewitness, Uélé dossier
Tambohe. 38, refugee from Napopo, DRC “I am here running away from the tongo-tongo (name given to the LRA in Congo), they killed the people in my village and burnt them alive.The LRA had been in the village a few weeks earlier. They came and looted the health centre. They took away all the medicines, but [...]

Watch

January 15th, 2009
Blogs, Maartje
Thursday morning. It’s time for my weekly visit to our centre in Bukama. We go over the week with the national team, talk about difficult cases, deliver medicines and check if everything is going well. I sit in on a few consultations, check the pharmacy and watch triage. This is where patients are welcomed. Then they [...]

“It was total mayhem, one had to run away”

January 13th, 2009
Eyewitness, Uélé dossier
As fighting in the Kivu province is making the headlines, the neighbouring district of Haut-Uele is also affected by violence. Rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) are terrorizing people, looting, burning villages, abducting children and killing adults. An MSF team visited the town of Dungu, which was attacked by the rebels on 1st November, [...]

Thousands of refugees affected by violence flee to South Sudan

January 13th, 2009
Eyewitness
Thousands of refugees affected by violence flee to South Sudan
2008 December, 15th. During the last few months, MSF teams have witnessed an increase in the violence linked to the movements of uncontrolled armed groups, including the ex rebels of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). Several villages in South Sudan and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been attacked by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) [...]

“This morning a very young girl turned up, alone, dejected. She had been raped by a soldier three days earlier.”

January 13th, 2009
News
“This morning a very young girl turned up, alone, dejected. She had been raped by a soldier three days earlier.”
DRC - Ituri Province. The populations who fled their villages last month, following the fighting between the national army (FARDC) and the militias, do not seem willing to return home. They are reluctant to embark on the return journey home in view of rumours of renewed fighting between the various armed groups. In Songolo, where [...]

From Kivu to Haut-Uélé: The suffering is the same

January 12th, 2009
News, Uélé dossier
From Kivu to Haut-Uélé: The suffering is the same
Today ‘Condition Critical’ is broadening its scope, to cover not only the suffering of people in the Kivu region, but also to those living in the northern regions of Ituri and Haut-Uélé. The plight of those in Kivu has received considerable media attention so awareness of their suffering is now growing, but this awareness needs [...]

Grief-stricken

January 8th, 2009
Blogs, Maartje
Today I’m visiting our inpatient ward with our national staff physician. A middle-aged man lies in the third bed. The nurse tells me that he suffers from a stomach ulcer and high blood pressure. He felt better the past few days but this morning he once again has extremely high blood pressure and a lot [...]

Rehema

January 5th, 2009
Blogs, Maartje
Rehema is 13 years old. She has a beautiful, little face and big, brown eyes. She also has epilepsy. During one of her seizures, she fell into the cooking fire. An epileptic seizure is seen as a moment in which you are possessed by the devil. Therefore, no one wants to touch you or pull [...]
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