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