UNICEF: $106 mill. appeal for humanitarian action in DRCongo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 February 2008 -- Not far outside this town that has swelled to ten times its size in as many years, the hardware of war can be found along all routes in this region of active volcanoes, forests and lakes.
But it's not bullets or bombs that have led to the deaths of more people here than any other conflict since World War II. At a therapeutic feeding centre in Rutshuru, North Kivu, that had been cut off for months in the fighting, the real root of this emergency is in the silent scream of withered babies, of five year olds with sunken eyes and blotted bellies, of anxious mothers unable to breastfed, unwilling to give in.
To continue responding to the chronic suffering of children and women, UNICEF is requesting $106 million for humanitarian activities in its Humanitarian Action Report which is being launched world wide this week.
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