Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report
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This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. The mass exodus of refugees from that human catastrophe caused the violence to spill into DR Congo, and was one of the factors that sparked the brutal civil war there, which took 5.4 million lives between 1998 and 2008.
Though some of the 14 African countries that were involved in one way or another in that conflict have withdrawn, factional violence, including against foreign militia, continues to rage. MSF does not travel with armed escorts or use the general security network for humanitarian groups operating through the UN, and goes into some of the most remote, inaccessible and unstable areas, to ensure needed treatment gets to the most defenseless populations. Its efforts in DR Congo are an essential service for hundreds of thousands of people.
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