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“Shocking” mortality rates in rural area

    NAIROBI

    The impact of civil war on South Kivu’s rural populations is staggering, resulting in “shocking” mortality rates and thousands of unseen casualties, an international NGO said in a report received by IRIN today.

    A survey conducted last week by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Katana zone near Bukavu indicated that the mortality rate among the zone’s inhabitants was 3.8 per 1,000 people per month, which is two and a half times the normal baseline for sub-Saharan Africa, the report said. For children under five years of age, the mortality rate was 10.1 per 1,000 per month. Main causes of child deaths included malaria, measles and diarrhoea, the report said.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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