Congo un probleme de memoire

Est ce pour demain la revolution?
Pourquoi toujours le superlatif quand il s'agit de la République démocratique du Congo? I am convinced now ... that the lives of Congolese people no longer mean anything to anybody. Not to those who kill us like flies, our brothers who help kill us or those you call the international community.... Even God does not listen to our prayers any more and abandons us.

— Salvatore Bulamuzi, a member of the Lendu community whose parents, two wives and five children were all killed in recent attacks on the town of Bunia, north-eastern DRC. (Quoted from "Our brothers who help kill us"—economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east, a report from Amnesty International, AFR 62/010/2003, April 1, 2003.) * More than two million people are internally displaced; of these, over 50 per cent are in eastern DRC. More than one million of the displaced have received absolutely no outside assistance. * It is estimated that up to 2.5 million people in DRC have died since the outbreak of the war, many from preventable diseases. * At least 37 per cent of the population, approximately 18.5 million people, have no access to any kind of formal health care. * 16 million people have critical food needs. * There are 2,056 doctors for a population of 50 million; of these, 930 are in Kinshasa. * Infant mortality rates in the east of the country have in places reached 41 per cent per year. * Severe malnutrition rates among children under five have reached 30 per cent in some areas. * National maternal mortality is 1837 per 100,000 live births, one of the worst in the world. Rates as high as 3,000/100,000 live births have been recorded in eastern DRC. * DRC is ranked 152nd on the UNDP Human Development index of 174 countries: a fall of 12 places since 1992. * 2.5 million people in Kinshasa live on less than US$1 per day. In some parts of eastern DRC, people are living on US$0.18 per day. * 80 per cent of families in rural areas of the two Kivu Provinces have been displaced at least once in the past five years. * There are more than 10,000 child soldiers. Over 15 per cent of newly recruited combatants are children under the age of 18. A substantial number are under the age of 12. * Officially, between 800,000 and 900,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS. * 40 per cent of health infrastructure has been destroyed in Masisi, North Kivu. * Only 45 per cent of people have access to safe drinking water. In some rural areas, this is as low as three per cent. * Four out of ten children are not in school. 400,000 displaced children have no access to education. * Of 145,000 km of roads, no more than 2,500km are asphalt.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole stair case. Just take the first step "
Dr Martin Lutter King JR 1929-1968

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