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NGO resumes operations in South Kivu

    NAIROBI

    Save the Children-UK has resumed some of its operations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the NGO announced on Wednesday.

    In a statement, Save the Children said it began on Saturday its distribution of 1,000 emergency household kits to vulnerable families in the rural communities of Kavumu, Mudaka and Miti, north of the South Kivu provincial capital of Bukavu.

    "These previously inaccessible areas were targeted [by Save the Children] as families living there had everything stolen from them during the recent conflict in South Kivu," a Save the Children official said in Bukavu on Wednesday.

    Several humanitarian organisations suspended or reduced their operations in eastern DRC after dissident soldiers, led by Gen Laurent Nkunda and Col Jules Mutebutsi, invaded Bukavu on 26 May. The dissidents withdrew on 8 June, and loyalist troops re-entered the town a day later to restore calm.

    On Monday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that following the wave of instability in the east, 90 percent of the humanitarian organisations in the towns of Bukavu, Goma, Kalemie and Kindu, as well as in the capital, Kinshasa, had been affected either by looting, suspension of activities or lack of access to vulnerable groups.

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