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UN envoy visits displaced communities in eastern DR Congo

UN staffs traveled to Kimoka in North Kivu on Friday, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in an area controlled by M23 rebels, to assess the situation of returnees and their living conditions in conflict-affected areas, as the country also faces its worst Ebola outbreak.

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00:00A United Nations team traveled to Kimoka in North Kivu in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
00:06focused on the situation of the people returning to conflict-affected communities
00:11as a country also faces its worst Ebola outbreak.
00:16The envoy met women working in the fields, inspected their harvest
00:20and heard about the support they needed from the United Nations.
00:26After leaving the camp for displaced people, we returned here and life was difficult
00:32and in the midst of that hardship, our brothers from FAO came and welcomed us
00:37and gave us seeds and now we are farming.
00:44The United Nations says more than 1,400 people, mostly women,
00:48returning from camps from internally displaced people
00:51are benefiting from farming, support and socio-economic reintegration projects
00:56in villages across Masisi territory.
01:02Malnutrition was very widespread here in Kimoka.
01:05Every day we will see as many as 25 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
01:10We also sometimes saw around 70 children with moderate acute malnutrition.
01:14Around 95,000 displaced people remained near Goma because of violence by armed groups
01:20according to the United Nations.
01:22Meanwhile, figures released this week by Congolese authorities
01:25show that Ebola has killed over 3,398 people
01:30and 7,022 cases reported.
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