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More than 4,800 households that fled the inter-community conflict in Lubunga (DR Congo) receive medical and humanitarian assistance from MSF

Since February 2023, an intercommunity conflict between the Mbole and Lengola tribes into the Lubunga village of Tshopo province, eastern DRC, forced more than 4800 households to flee their homes and take shelter in Kisangani town. Local authorities report over 500 deaths and 700 huts burnt-down.
Thousands of displaced people are exposed to bad weather, hunger, poor sanitary conditions and diseases.
In December 2023, MSF launched an emergency intervention to respond to their vital needs.
Early January 2024, hostilities resumed after two months of respite; huts were set on fire again, five other people killed, three seriously injured and treated by MSF among them a six-year-old girl with her both arms amputated.

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