150 schools and 22 health centres are destroyed by rebels in DRC over the last two months – UN officials
Congolese soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo patrol as they search for Mai-Mai Yakutumba rebels in Namoya, Maniema Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 29, 2018.
UNICEF said the schools and health centres were destroyed by Cooperative for the Development of Congo rebels in the restive eastern part of the country, said UN radio in the republic on Saturday. ''More than 150 schools were damaged and looted in the Djugu, Mahagi and Irumu territories in the Ituri province by the armed group CODECO. 22 health centres have been destroyed along with large stocks of vaccines,” UNICEF said in a statement.
Edou ard Beigbeder, UNICEF representative in the country, called on humanitarian workers to act quickly to avoid a crisis that would endanger many children there.
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