SENIOR UN HUMANITARIAN OFFICIAL URGES END TO ‘HORRORS’ IN EASTERN DR CONGO

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SENIOR UN HUMANITARIAN OFFICIAL URGES END TO 'HORRORS' IN EASTERN DR
CONGONew York, May 28 2013 6:00PMLamenting the immense suffering of
the people in North Kivu and other parts of the eastern Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC), where violence "has gone on for too
long," a senior United Nations relief official touring the region
today called for an end to the fighting.

"The latest fighting on the outskirts of Goma shows how fragile the
situation is in North Kivu," Assistant Secretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang said from strife-torn Goma, on the
second day of her visit to the region.

"The immense suffering of the people in North Kivu and other parts of
the DRC where violence continues has gone on for too long. It is time
to end the horrors of this man-made emergency," she declared.

Ms. Kang met with displaced people at Sotraki, a site near Goma, were
some 3,000 people have sought refuge since fighting once again erupted
between the Congolese Army (known as the FARDC) and the 23 March
Movement (M23) armed rebels.

These newly-displaced people are the latest victims of a complex and
protracted humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC that has taken countless
lives and uprooted more than 3 million people.

While in Goma last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all the
leaders of Africa's Great Lakes region to throw their support behind a
recently-signed peace accord which aims to ensure security, as well as
development, for the long-troubled country.

"We have the best chance in many years to bring peace and calm to the
region," the UN chief said in
<"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2827">remarks to the
press referring to the landmark, UN-brokered Peace, Security and
Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the
Region, that has been dubbed "the framework for hope" by Mary
Robinson, Mr. Ban's Special Envoy for the Great Lakes.

Today, on the second-day of a four-day visit, Ms. Kang travelled to
Goma to see for herself the impact of the humanitarian crisis in
eastern DRC. "The killing of civilians by shelling last week is
unacceptable and I call on all parties engaged in armed conflict to
fully respect international humanitarian law," she said.

"The path to lasting peace will be long, but we must remain hopeful
and courageous," she said.

Ms. Kang was accompanied by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in DRC,
Moustapha Soumaré. They saw the work of non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), UN agencies and other humanitarian partners that are providing
emergency aid to newly-displaced people.

In the capital, Kinshasa, where she began her trip on Monday, Ms. Kang
held discussions with Government officials, NGOs and senior
humanitarian officials on issues such as the protection of civilians,
a more enabling environment for humanitarian actors, and the continued
and heightened need for large-scale humanitarian response.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), North Kivu is home to some 973,000 internally
displaced people (IDPs) – one third of the 2.6 million IDPs in the
DRC. The multi-ethnic province, rich in mineral resources, has been
the epicentre of a multifaceted-crisis for nearly two decades.

Many people have fled their homes on multiple occasions and are
reliant on humanitarian aid – emergency shelter, food, water and
sanitation – delivered by aid organizations in a tense security
environment, while they wait for peace, OCHA states.May 28 2013
6:00PM
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