Internally displaced Congolese refugees have begun receiving their food assistance from the Congolese government. The distribution began at Mugunga 3, at the outskirts of Goma on Sunday.
The relief assistance is expected to benefit about 36,000 displaced Congolese that fled fighting between rebel factions and the FARDC in the territory of Masisi in North Kivu.
Supplied items including hundreds of tons of food and non-food items for IDPs living in the seven sites identified in North Kivu will cater for 3225 displaced families.
“We agree to humanitarian assistance, but we want peace to return to our villages,” said some of the beneficiaries.
Congolese government Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and National Solidarity, Charles Nawej Mundele says that government policy is not to maintain the displaced in camps.
“There was the water problem that arose including the problem of hygiene latrines, there are food problems. The ultimate goal is to help all our people to regain their places of origin. We have it all: the government will assist all displaced people.”
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