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UNHCR: Eastern DRC’s Forcibly Displaced Victims of Human Rights Violations

The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR has reported hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s north Kivu and Ituri provinces are living in abject poverty and are subject to mass human rights violations.

A wave of brutal attacks by armed groups in north Kivu and Ituri provinces in June triggered the flight of some 300,000 persons, mainly women and children from…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says, it had suspended non-essential work in part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after unidentified gunmen abducted two of its local staff earlier this month in the Masisi health zone, North Kivu province. #AfricanNewsNetwork

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says, it had suspended non-essential work in part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after unidentified gunmen abducted two of its local staff earlier this month in the Masisi health zone, North Kivu province.

MSF spokesperson in DR Congo, Francine Kongolo, said the agency has also decided to cut back its staff on site out of concern over the safety of its teams.

{ACTION TIME!}

Mbote (hello in Lingala) Brothers & Sisters!

Yes, it’s that’s time.....activism requires us to ACT so let’s walk the walk. Check out this article that @amnestyuk released at the beginning of this year exposing the very companies WE buy from on their use of cobalt mined by children in DRC. 

READ HERE and HERE. Now take action HERE. The sooner we engage in and become part of the conversation in regards to how our technology is made the better.