Cisa News REPORT:
BAS-UELE, March 13, 2012 (CISA) -A Catholic humanitarian organisation, CARITAS has started a socio-economic reintegration project for more than 28,000 people who have been affected by activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Bondo and Butu in the Bas-Uele District of Province Orientale.
BAS-UELE, March 13, 2012 (CISA) -A Catholic humanitarian organisation, CARITAS has started a socio-economic reintegration project for more than 28,000 people who have been affected by activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Bondo and Butu in the Bas-Uele District of Province Orientale.
According to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the project aims to improve food security by re-launching the agricultural sector through the provision of agricultural inputs and food as well as the improvement of market access through the rehabilitation of 84 kilometres of roads.
So far more than 3,000 persons have been displaced in 2012 as a result of LRA attacks in the Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele Districts, according to OCHA.
In total about 20 attacks the latest reported on March 8, 2012 have been reported with one person killed and 17 kidnapped.
Abducted people typically end up as porters while children end up as sexual slaves and child soldiers.
As per the numbers compiled by OCHA and UNHCR, LRA attacks in Congo have caused the internal displacement of 320,000 people while around 30,000 Congolese citizens have sought refuge in the Central African Republic and the Republic of South Sudan since 2008.
SOURCE CISA NEWS AFRICA
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