Posts Tagged ‘Ituri’

Visit to the Hospital „Bon Marché“

February 16th, 2009
Blogs, Irene
Visit to the Hospital „Bon Marché“
The day starts with bad news: my bag has finally arrived in Entebbe but has not been given to the MSF colleagues who were in the same machine. This means that I will continue travelling “light” tomorrow. First, this really annoys me, but there is also an advantage to it: I have to go to [...]

Impressions from Bunia

February 15th, 2009
Blogs, Irene
A quiet day. Singings from a nearby church wake me up. Our compound, which houses only the members of the emergency team, is empty except Ghislaine from Montreal and me. Ghislaine came back yesterday from an exploratory mission lasting several days in the north. She has ten hours drive on Congolese roads in her bones [...]

Travelling to Bunia

February 14th, 2009
Blogs, Irene
Contrary to expectations I’m already back at Entebbe airport. My local colleagues managed to get hold of a seat for me in an earlier flight to Bunia. The city which is located near the shores of Lake Albert is the capital of the eastern Congolese province of Ituri. MSF has been present here for a [...]

“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 [...]

MSF in Ituri: “Two years later, people in Gety could still remember my first name”

December 2nd, 2008
News
Pierluigi Testa is a nurse working for the Emergency Cell. He is in charge of recruitment, in particular that of paramedics. His job also entails visiting the field when an emergency arises suddenly. He has just returned from Gety, a town in the Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of Congo that he knows well [...]