Radio Kahuzi Reporting of Prime Minister, Jean-Michel, SAMA LUKONDE KYENGE, Visiting Devastation in Kalehe, South Kivu...

Congolese Prime Minister, Jean-Michel,
SAMA LUKONDE KYENGE,

May 28, 2023

Reported by Danny MAGADJU 

Photojournalist / Staff of Radio Kahuzi / BESI

Bukavu, D R Congo

Congolese Prime Minister, Jean-Michel, SAMA LUKONDE KYENGE, arrived at the Lwako Airfield located in the village of Cibanda in theTerritory of Kalehe in South Kivu on Saturday, May 27 after he visited Goma in North Kivu.

The Head of the Congolese government arrived on a mission of compassion in favor of the victims of the floods in the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in the area of South Mbinga.

Prime Minister, SAMA LOKONDE
did not come empty-handed.

In his speech to the families of the victims, Prime Minister, SAMA LOKONDE emotionally expressed the need for assistance for the families after losing loved ones and all their valuables during the May 4 floods. 

Prime Minister distributed non-food and food 
items of rice, corn, flour; vegetable oil, 

Before his departure he distributed non-food and food items of rice, corn, flour; vegetable oil, kitchen utensils, mattresses, loincloths, as well as medicines to relieve, however slightly, the suffering of the victims families in these two villages. 

The Prime Minister was accompanied by a large delegation comprising national deputies and ministry members of the government, namely; the Ministers of Finance, Health and Rural Development; Ministers of Employment, Infrastructure, Industry, and the Defense Minister.

As we previously reported on May 4, more than five hundred (500) people are declared dead, and over five thousand (5,000) souls were lost, and presumed dead, after the torrential rains that fell on the Bushushun and Nyamamukubi villages in the Kalehe Territory located in South Kivu Province. The Prime Minister and his delegation visited the sties where there was enormous loss of life and damage.

It should also be noted that this is the first time a Prime Minister of the DRC has visited the Kalehe Territory.

Danny MAGADJU recording video

Radio Kahuzi Journalist, Danny MAGADJU, is shown in the foreground with the backpack preparing a video production of the Prime Minister's visit to Nyamukubi Kalehe near Bukavu. 

Photos of Disaster Victims

 Widows and men who have lost their families
expressing their heartbreak and loss.

Survivors are being housed in small 
tarpaulins on this dangerous hill. 

Bathing at the water's edge

Orphaned children under the age of six (6)
are more vulnerable and exposed to bad weather.
 

Danny with orphaned children whose parents died in floods.
Some of the children show signs of malnutrition.

Danny shared, "In order to arrive on time for the Prime Minister's speech, we had to rent a mini bus, but found the road totally impossible to navigate. We had to take a five-hour detour to Kalehe before arriving at the site of the news conference. Given the state of the road, we had to get out and push the vehicle through the bog."

May 28, 2023

Reported by Danny MAGADJU 

Photojournalist / Staff of Radio Kahuzi / BESI

Bukavu, D R Congo

Water Is Life . . . So They Say.

City of Bukavu Surrounded by Lake Kivu

South Kivu Cholera Outbreak

May 24, 2023

Reported by Danny Magadju

Photojournalist / Staff of Radio Kahuzi / BESI

Bukavu, D R Congo

The Province of South Kivu is currently facing an outbreak of Cholera. It is a severe and potentially fatal diarrheal disease caused by a lack of clean drinking water or food contaminated by Vibrio Choleric bacteria. Over the past few weeks, the Province has recorded more than two hundred (200) cases of deadly Cholera, including eight (8) deaths. This is alarming.

 
According to the Provincial Division of Health (DPS), the commune of Kadutu in Bukavu is the most affected, with more than seventy (70) cases.

This cholera outbreak is likely due to the sewage contaminated water that many of the households used during the REGIDESO water shortage, contaminated by human waste. The region often lacks an adequate sanitation system.

Faced with this situation, the health authorities of the province have taken measures to contain the spread of the disease. Medical teams have been mobilized to provide care to people with cholera and educate communities on the importance of hygiene practices such as hand washing and drinking safe drinking water.

Emergency measures must be strengthened to provide medical assistance and health education so that people have knowledge to prevent the spread of cholera. This cholera outbreak is an urgent reminder of the importance of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

It is crucial that the government, through REGIDESO and other organizations, invest in the the provision of safe drinking water and good sanitary conditions to prevent epidemics and protect public health.

Bukavu DRC

May 24 , 2023

 

Baby was found alive...

Danny Magadju, Photo Journalist, Radio Kahuzi / BESI

Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

(Reporting from site of the destruction.)

Baby was found alive...

... in the rubble on the back of his mother who died in the disaster at Bushushu Kalehe. He remains the only survivor of his family. The baby’s father was also killed in the landslide.

God is Great who saved this baby. We must glorify the Lord every day.

May 8, 2023

Danny MAGADJU

Over 5,000 are Missing and Presumed Dead

A Red Cross worker finds another 

body of a loved one.

The provisionnel toll of the landslide in Bushushu and Nyamukubi, Kalehe territory in South Kivu is 405 and 5,255 people are missing. They are buried under the rubble. Among the survivors, some are seriously injured and were admitted to the general hospital of Ihusi Kalehe.

Among the dead are members of our Kahuzi Radio Clubs, which were engaged in agriculture and livestock breeding in the northern axis of Kalehe territory.

All valuables were washed away by the torrential rains. Struggling families and orhans require the assistance of every person of goodwill.

Danny listens to grieving family members.

Danny comforts another young man
 who has lost his entire family.