Claims to the parties that assume their responsibilities and warn that “every hour lost puts lives in danger”
Madrid, Feb. 4 (Europa Press) –
United Nations has claimed on Tuesday the “urgent” reopening of the airport of the rubber city, located in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) and now in the hands of the Rebelde Group Movement March 23 (M23), due to its importance for the delivery of humanitarian aid in this area of the African country.
The UN humanitarian coordinator for RDC, Bruno Lemarquis, stressed that the airport is “a crucial access point” for help and added that “after fighting of an unknown intensity in the region for decades and a high balance of Victims, rubber is mired in a humanitarian emergency. “
“A large number of injured need urgent attention, medical infrastructure are overwhelmed and thousands of civilians are still deprived of vital assistance,” he warned, before influencing the airport “is a lifeguard.”
“Without it, the evacuation of serious injuries, the delivery of medical material and the reception of humanitarian reinforcements are paralyzed,” said Lemarquis, after the M23 announced last week that had been done with the control of the aerodrome, of importance strategic
Therefore, he has claimed “to all parties” that “assume their responsibilities and do everything possible” to reopen the airport. “Every lost hour puts lives in danger,” he said, before insisting that “urgency is absolute.”
“All actors involved must act without delay to allow humanitarian flights to resume their operations and guarantee access to relief supplies. The survival of thousands of people depends on it,” Lemarquis settled.
The statement has been published after the M23 announced on Monday afternoon a high fire as of this Tuesday for the “humanitarian crisis” in the east of the country for which they hold the Armed Forces, without the Congolese authorities They have pronounced about it.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicated on Monday that at least 900 people have died and 2,880 have been injured due to the fighting between the M23 and the Congolese troops and its allied militias in rubber, capital of the Province of Kivu Norte.
The M23 is a rebel group composed mainly of Congolese tutsis that launched a new offensive at the end of 2022, after the conflict between 2012 and 2013, which resulted in a peace agreement, which has raised tensions between RDC and Rwanda, which He accuses Kinshasa to repress Congolese tutsis with the support of armed groups such as democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)-founded by Hutus fled from the genocide in 1994 in Ruandés territory-and other local militias.
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