{"id":294135,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294135"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:56:55","slug":"flooding-displaces-thousands-amid-ongoing-unrest-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/flooding-displaces-thousands-amid-ongoing-unrest-in-eastern-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding Displaces Thousands amid Ongoing Unrest in Eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_294136\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294136\" class=\"wp-image-294136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa-1024x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa-1024x464.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa-768x348.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congo-refugees-africa.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People continue to flee from fighting in the eastern DR Congo. \u00a9 MONUSCO\/Aubin Mukoni<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-views-block-content-fields-block-lead\" class=\"views-element-container block block-views block-views-block-content-fields-block-lead\">\n<div class=\"block-content block__content\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"view view-content-fields view-id-content_fields view-display-id-block_lead 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peanuts have been wiped out, worsening an already serious food insecurity situation in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"align-right context-un_news_large_credit type-twitter media media--type-twitter media--view-mode-un-news-large-credit\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-twitter field--type-string field--label-visually_hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__label visually-hidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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ongoing conflict and mass displacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flooding has hit a community already under severe strain,\u201d she told journalists in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince January, Tanganyika has received around 50,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) fleeing violence in South Kivu. Many had been sheltering in local homes, churches and schools \u2013 now damaged or destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tanganyika and South Kivu are among four eastern provinces where some 2.3 million people are affected by ongoing conflict and hunger fears are rising, according to recent assessments.<\/p>\n<p>The other provinces are North Kivu and Ituri.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Funding shortfall<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>UNHCR and partners are providing emergency support, including shelter, clean water, food and medical care, but critical funding gaps are hindering response.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also indicate that some Congolese refugees who recently fled to Burundi have since returned to DRC, citing limited access to food, shelter and basic services.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Congolese refugees continue to cross the border to neighbouring countries in search of safety. Nearly 120,000 people have so far arrived in Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda, with more than 5,500 entering Uganda over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trend highlights the urgent need for increased support in both host countries and return areas to address the challenges faced by returnees and refugees in neighbouring countries,\u201d said Ms. Byun.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed the need for a coordinated and robust humanitarian response but noted that UNHCR has only received 20 per cent of the funding required for its operations in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of the DRC are in dire need of aid, and without timely and adequate intervention, the consequences of this tragic \u2018double crisis\u2019 will only deepen,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/04\/1162261\" >Go to Original &#8211; news.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Apr 2025 &#8211; Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province, DRC, the UN refugee agency, said today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":294136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[237,1991,1816,822,124,481],"class_list":["post-294135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-africa","tag-d-r-congo","tag-floods","tag-unhcr","tag-united-nations","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294137,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294135\/revisions\/294137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}