(11 Feb 2025)
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Goma, DRC – 11 February 2025
1. Various, wide shots of the Bulengo camp for internally displaced people (IDP) as residents demolish their shelters
2. Woman with her belongings on her back
3. People walking with their belongings on their backs
4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Sibomana Safari, Bulengo camp resident:
“I don’t know if we will make it. I have children, and to my surprise we are being told to leave, and I have nothing to give the children. And others that you see here near me, we were all in the Bulengo camp, and we are all leaving without any help."
5. People demolish shelters in the Bulengo camp
6. A woman walks with a piece of corrugated metal on her head
7. Vincent Bauma dismantling his shelter in the Lushagala camp
8. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Vincent Bauma, Lushagala IDP camp resident:
"The authorities asked us to destroy our small houses and go home, but we don’t know how we’re going to get home. There has been no peace yet. We still can’t go to the fields and farm. We don’t have peace yet. We might run to the mines that have been left behind, we really don’t know what to do. Even at home, there’s no peace, but we are asked to return there. We don’t know what to do."
9. Woman taking apart her shelter
10. Kwimana Sifa taking apart her shelter
11. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Kwimana Sifa, Bulengo IDP camp resident:
"All of us, what we want is peace and nothing else. Our homes have been destroyed by bombs and we have nowhere to go. We are suffering. It is better to leave us here. Although we don’t have any food, at least we have shelter here."
12. Various of Oonagh Curry, emergency coordinator for MSF, walking into her office
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Oonagh Curry, emergency coordinator for MSF:
"A very important message to the authorities, to the other actors, to everyone concerned, is to make sure that we keep in mind that any movement of population gives opportunity to increase the vulnerability of this population, as well as the resident population. We generalize a vulnerability when there is an increase in the number of people. It is extremely important to make sure to keep in mind that a sudden movement of a population can aggravate the humanitarian crisis that is already underway."
14. Man dismantling his shelter
15. Woman arranges pieces of tarp
16. People sitting on the back of a truck with their belongings
STORYLINE:
The sounds of hammering and the rattling of corrugated metal roofs echoed across Goma’s Bulengo camp for internally displaced people on Tuesday as residents dismantled the shelters that some of them have lived in for years.
They say that Rwanda-backed M23 rebels passed through the camp Saturday and told them they had three days to vacate the camp.
Just weeks ago, M23 took control of Goma, a strategic city in the east of the country that has long served as a refuge for those fleeing the ongoing conflict.
Camps in and around Goma hosted hundreds of thousands of displaced people, many who had fled conflict multiple times in their lives.
Sibomana Safari, who lived in the Bulengo IDP camp, walked through the camp hunched over with the weight of his belongings on his back.
“I don’t know if we will make it. I have children, and to my surprise we are being told to leave, and I have nothing to give the children,” he said.
Shortly after taking control of Goma, M23 leaders said they would reopen schools and reestablish the interrupted water supply.
But the fate of those in an already precarious situation remained unclear.
Vincent Bauma lived in Goma’s Lushagala IDP camp.
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