Ituri, DRC: Humanitarian action reaching its limits - ENGLISH

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2 mins video of Hugues Robert, Head of E-desk, and back from a field visit, highlighting the humanitarian situation in Ituri province. Moving on from the situation in Boga, Hugues describes more broadly the limitations faced by humanitarian organisations within the ongoing conflict that restarted 3 years ago.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB72113

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/04/2021 10:49 AM

Country Democratic Republic of Congo

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Pierre-Yves Bernard

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m17s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 332.59 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Script RDC violences Boga

TEXT on-SCREEN :

Hugues Robert
Head of MSF emergency programmes

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In one month, our teams treated more than 67 people who were victims of sexual violence.
This is more than two people a day. It’s a huge number for such a small population. We're talking about 26,000 displaced people.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ituri
Boga

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In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an MSF team initially arrived in the town of Boga following an influx of wounded people, and to treat malnutrition. But then the medical team discovered this catastrophic situation affecting women in Ituri.

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This sexual violence takes place when women go to the fields or to fetch water to feed their families. So you realise that they either have to stay in the camp, but their children will die of acute malnutrition, or they go to fetch food or water and they risk being victims of sexual violence.
It's extremely shocking, because if you put yourself in the shoes of these women, the choice they have is impossible...

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Since 2017, Ituri province has been experiencing a new wave of violence affecting more than 2.8 million people.

Displaced people fleeing armed groups lack everything:
access to health care, food, shelter, and hygiene...

More than 70 health facilities were looted or destroyed in the region.

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We are in a region that has lacked basic medical assistance for more than 30 years.
So even before the current conflict, the situation in terms of access to healthcare was very problematic. Then we arrive with our emergency programs into a system that is already dysfunctional, and that is now experiencing extreme violence, on top of that.
As a humanitarian organisation, there are limits to what we can do. In the end, we are here to try to address the immediate and acute needs of people, but we cannot respond to the causes of the conflict.

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All communities in Ituri province, where lives have been disrupted by three years of systematic violence, are in need of assistance and opportunities.