At least six Congolese have been admitted to Kisoro Hospital after being critically injured by a bomb in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kisoro Resident District Commissioner Hajji Shafiq Sekandi says, heavy fighting yesterday afternoon resulted in several injuries of civilians who were fleeing into Uganda.
Sekandi says humanitarian agencies need to step in to intervene in and avert a situation that is quickly getting worse.
More than 7000 Congolese asylum seekers have returned to Kisoro, fleeing a war, which never seems to end.
Kisoro Hospital Administrator Benjamin Akankwasa says, among the admitted include adults and children.
He assures that the hospital is doing everything humanly possible to save the lives of the injured Congolese.
Camp managers at Nyakabande find themselves in a difficult position following a government directive to down scale the holding camp to Zero by 31st of October 2022.
The Office of the Kisoro RDC in collaboration with Office of the Prime Minister are insisting the goal is still achievable and are determined to see all Asylum seekers from DR. Congo move to settlement camps and not Nyakabande.
According to a UN report, more than 355,000 Congolese have fled their homes so far this year in 2022.
This pushes the number of those displaced in DRC due to overlapping conflicts to more than 5.5 million people this year — the largest recorded humanitarian crisis of its kind in Africa.
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