Democratic Republic Congo Crisis Relief Fund, DRC

Democratic Republic Congo Crisis Relief Fund, DRC

BujumburaEAC 

Project repport 

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Conflict, displacement, epidemics, food insecurity and malnutrition The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are suffering from the impact of one of the most complex and longest humanitarian crises. Help us provide them the assistance they need. 27 million people - one in four Congolese - are acutely food insecure in a country that has been dealing with the fallout of conflicts, epidemics such as Ebola

Challenge

An estimated 6.1 million people are currently internally displaced in DRC, a 17 per cent increase from October 2022. Since the beginning of the year, the civilian population has been severely affected by violence and brutal attacks perpetrated by non-state armed groups in eastern DRC, resulting in loss of life, mass displacement, and increasing instability. As the conflict intensifies, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, and millions are facing acute food insecurity

The resurgence of violence by armed groups in 2024 has displaced more than 6.4 million people in the Kasai, Tanganyika, Ituri and Kivu regions.

People are fleeing their homes at an alarming rate, while worsening violence is destroying lives and livelihoods across the country.

The lack of funding makes Community of national artistic unity 's mission very difficult.

We need your help urgently.

What is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most complex humanitarian situations in the world. 

The end of a civil war in 2003 had raised hopes, but the country remains the scene of sporadic eruptions of violence. Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and are now struggling to survive. The latest data, from February 2023, the DRC hosts 522,000 refugees and asylum seekers, the majority of whom, 74%, live outside refugee camps or settlements (August 2022).

Some 6.2 million people are internally displaced in the DRC, making the country the country the country with the largest population of internally displaced people in the world.  

In addition, more than one million refugees and asylum seekers on the African continent are from the DRC.

In January 2023, more than 200 civilians were killed in Ituri province in a series of attacks by non-state armed groups, which also destroyed 2,000 homes and closed or demolished 80 schools. Nearly 52,000 people have been displaced in a province that already has 1.5 million displaced people.

Meanwhile, in the neighboring province of North Kivu, a dramatic resurgence of attacks by armed groups began in March 2022, causing more than 521,000 people to flee. Nearly 120,000 people have fled to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Goma, but remain in desperate distress. A total of 2.2 million people are displaced in the conflict-torn province.

Community of national artistic unity

Bujumbura 28/07/2024