DRC: security situation still difficult in Mai-Ndombe
The village of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Maï-Ndombe.
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Text by: Paulina Zidi Follow
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In the DRC, inter-community violence in Mai-Ndome has officially killed nearly twenty people since the beginning of August.
A conflict that has also already displaced more than 20,000 people, according to figures given by civil societies in neighboring provinces, Kwilu and Kwango.
In the Kwamouth region, the tension has not subsided.
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There is always “disorder”, confide several people contacted in Kwamouth,
epicenter of the violence
.
The start of the school year has been disrupted and the national road 7, which connects Kinshasa to the city of Bandundu, in the neighboring province of Kwilu, crossing the Mai-Ndombe, is still closed to traffic.
This security situation has consequences for the entire area near the capital.
A local MP explains, for example, that due to the road closure, teachers in other provinces had not yet been able to receive their salaries, which could not be delivered.
"Inhuman" conditions for the displaced
Another concern of the moment: the displaced.
For the moment, it is difficult to have a precise figure of the number of people concerned.
Indeed, people have fled to several provinces and even, according to a politician from Kwamouth, as far as Congo-Brazzaville.
Bellone Espoir Ntembe, from civil society in Bandundu, estimates that there are currently more than 2,000 displaced people in his town and that around a hundred people are still arriving every day: "
People have hidden in the forest to flee the violence and as soon as they can, they leave and arrive here
.
»
While some of these displaced have been taken in by families, most have no accommodation.
Bellone Espoir Ntembé denounces the "
inhuman
" conditions for these displaced households.
Several voices in the region express the same concerns.
This is the case of civil society in neighboring Kwango, which claims to have registered nearly 18,000 refugees and which also denounces the lack of structures to take care of them.
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