Bulletin d'Information Humanitaire - Province Orientale N° 17/13, 30 avril 2013

A robust response is required to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. The plan aims to immediately and rapidly scale-up operations and to increase the provision of protection and life-saving assistance.

Save the Children warns that displaced populations do not have enough food, and lack health services, clean and safe water and hygiene materials as areas become increasingly cut off by violence.

While reconciliation efforts by the DRC government have revived hopes for peace in Ituri, thousands of displaced families and children lack access to basic services, education and healthcare.