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.