EAST-DRC | AMID VIOLENCE, MASS DISPLACEMENT, AND NOW THE THREAT OF AN EBOLA DISEASE OUTBREAK, THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE IN PLAINE SAVO FACE A DAILY STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE

EAST-DRC | AMID VIOLENCE, MASS DISPLACEMENT, AND NOW THE THREAT OF AN EBOLA DISEASE OUTBREAK, THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE IN PLAINE SAVO FACE A DAILY STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE

Around 76,000 people are currently living in the Plaine Savo internally displaced persons site, near Fataki city, Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Residents are unable to leave due to the threat of violence outside the camp and are forced to live in dire and undignified conditions, deprived of the most basic and essential services.

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About MSF Eastern Africa

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

MSF has some of its largest medical projects across East Africa including in South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and Burundi. In these countries, MSF runs hospitals, health centres and mobile clinics, and launches emergency projects as spikes in healthcare needs arise.   
 
MSF also has a regional office in Kenya, which supports our medical programmes in the country and those surrounding it, recruits staff to help run our operations around the world and raises awareness of humanitarian crises that we are responding to. 

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