"A WOMAN TRAPPED IN AN OVERCROWDED CONGOLESE REFUGEE CAMP SHOWS".
"VIDEO: "LIFE INSIDE A
REFUGEE CAMP".
A woman trapped in an overcrowded Congolese refugee camp shows Telegraph TV the squalid living conditions she is forced to endure with her five children.
"16.05.2009.-02:27.h."Confiance Nyrabazainwa describes the living conditions in a camp in Kitchanga, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is home to 5,000, as "terrible".
"In this video she shows her small hut, which has a leaky tarpaulin for a roof and only a woved rug for a front door".
"The camp's residents, who have been forced to flee from the country's violence, are joined by more refugees daily and most are suffering from lack of food and poor sanitation according the charity Médecins Sans Frontières "MSF".
"Five armed robberies have taken place this year, forcing MSF to suspend their health clinics in the area, leaving the refugees without life-saving treatment of measles and cholera".
"More than 1.4 million Congolese have been internally displaced, as well as fleeing to neighbouring Rwanda, according to Congolese authorities. Rwandans are still seeking refuge in eastern areas of the DRC since the genocide, in 1994 that killed a million people".
"Since January, the UN’s refugee agency "UNHCR" has stepped up its efforts to help refugees and has assisted nearly 5,000 Rwandans to return from camps in Masisi, Kitchanga and Lubero, north of Gom...
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