Emergency

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Conflict

ETC Activated
Emergency type
Asset 680
Conflict
ETC activation date

Decades of armed conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), political unrest and insecurity have resulted in a complex humanitarian crisis. Since April 2016, the conflict in the Kasai region of DRC has been escalating, causing widespread displacements and the loss of livelihoods. An estimated 762,000 people are internally displaced. Due to the conflict in Kasai, 33,500 people have fled to neighboring Angola and Zambia as refugees. In addition, 2 million people are internally displaced in the Kivus and Tanganyika regions.

Accordingly, DRC’s status was elevated to a humanitarian system-wide emergency by the Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Food Programme (WFP). The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated on 20 November 2017.

The ETC is providing shared security telecommunications services to support humanitarian operations in the Kasai region, South Kivu and Tanganyika . These services are available in Kananga and Tshikapa (Kasai-Occidental), Mbuji-Mayi (Kasai-Oriental), Bukavu (South Kivu) and in Kalemie (Tanganyika).

 

 

Overview

Services provided
Asset 673
Asset 914
Asset 745
Asset 963

Funding status

Percentage received 42.85%
Required 1.40M$
Contacts
Erika Iglesias
Information Management Officer
Maiduguri, Nigeria
+ 234 701 511 4488
Karim Kangbeya
ETC Coordinator
Kinshasa, D.R.C.

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