scholarly journals ‘Who Can Sing the Song of MSF?’

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Myfanwy James
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
North Kivu

This article explores the everyday practice of security management and negotiations for access conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and archival exploration, it examines the experience of MSF Congolese employees, who navigate a complex politics of humanitarian fixing and brokerage. Their role in MSF is simultaneously defined and circumscribed by their political and social situation. MSF’s security management relies on local staff’s interpersonal networks and on their ability to interpret and translate. However, local staff find themselves at risk, or perceived as a ‘risk’: exposed to external pressures and acts of violence, while possibilities for promotion are limited precisely because of their embeddedness. They face a tension between being politically and socially embedded and needing to perform MSF’s principles in practice. As such, they embody the contradictions of MSF’s approach in North Kivu: a simultaneous need for operational ‘proximity’, as well as performative distance from everyday conflict processes.

Kitagohaite, Pt7Cu, a new mineral from the Lubero region, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2014 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 739-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Cabral ◽  
R. Skála ◽  
A. Vymazalová ◽  
A. Kallistová ◽  
B. Lehmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Vickers Hardness ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Calculated Density ◽  
Reflected Light ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Mohs Hardness ◽  
North Kivu

AbstractKitagohaite, ideally Pt7Cu, is a new mineral from the Lubero region of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The mineral occurs as alluvial grains that were recovered together with other Pt-rich intermetallic compounds and Au. Kitagohaite is opaque, greyish white and malleable and has a metallic lustre and a grey streak. In reflected light, kitagohaite is white and isotropic. The crystal structure of kitagohaite is cubic, space group Fmm, of the Ca7Ge type, with a = 7.7891(3) Å, V = 472.57(5) Å3 and Z = 4. The strongest diffraction lines [d in Å(I)(hkl)] are: 2.246 (100)(222), 1.948(8)(004), 1.377 (77)(044), 1.174(27)(622), 1.123 (31)(444) and 0.893 (13)(662). The Vickers hardness is 217 kg mm−2 (VHN100), which is equivalent to a Mohs hardness of 3½ and the calculated density is 19.958(2) g cm−3. Electron-microprobe analyses gave a mean value (n = 13) of 95.49 wt.% Pt and 4.78 wt.%Cu, which corresponds to Pt6.93Cu1.07 on the basis of eight atoms. The new mineral is named for the Kitagoha river, in the Lubero region.

Orthocuproplatinum, Pt3Cu, a new mineral from the Lubero region, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-532
Author(s):  
Alexandre R. Cabral ◽  
Roman Skála ◽  
Anna Vymazalová ◽  
Jaroslav Maixner ◽  
Chris J. Stanley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
North Kivu

The Ebola Outbreak inthe DRC

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Paulo Jose Lumicao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
World Health ◽  
Director General ◽  
Local Response ◽  
Global Response ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Recent Outbreak ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
North Kivu

A recent outbreak of Ebola starting in August 2018 has spread rapidly in North Kivu and Ituri, north-eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This is the tenth outbreak in forty years. Nevertheless, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), recently stated that the outbreak is not yet a “public health emergency of inter- national concern.” Declaring such an emergency would trigger “a response across the United Nations, mobilizing multiple agencies, funding, and personnel . . . the sort of global response that belatedly resolved the [Ebola] epidemics in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea in 2014 and 2015.” Instead, the WHO and its partners are working with the DRC Ministry of Health to mount a more local response.

scholarly journals Twelve-month contraceptive continuation among women initiating short- and long-acting reversible contraceptives in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. e0182744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Casey ◽  
Amy Cannon ◽  
Benjamin Mushagalusa Balikubirhi ◽  
Jean-Bosco Muyisa ◽  
Ribka Amsalu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
North Kivu ◽  
Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives

Rainforest Capitalism

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
European Company ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Face ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Gendered Power

Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.

Protection of civilians in a peacekeeping context Challenges and dilemmas of MONUC/MONUSCO

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Christian R. Manahl
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
South Kivu ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
North Kivu

“Around Kamanyola in Walungu territory, FARDC soldiers looted property and ca􀄴 le and gang-raped a lady. When trying to fight off the rapists, two male members of the aff ected family were killed.” This is a short note from the daily situation report of MONUSCO’s South Kivu office, sent on 10 July 2010. It is one of many similar observations made by the dismayed and overwhelmed peacekeepers of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), whose first priority is the protection of civilians. On another day, or in another duty station, peacekeepers might report about a couple of children being abducted or a family burnt alive in their home by one of the militias roaming the subregion. On a few occasions – in July/August 2010 in Walikale territory in North Kivu, and in January and February 2011 in Fizi territory of South Kivu (see map 1) – the recurrent human rights violations in the DRC reached horrifi c proportions, with scores of people, including many children, sexually abused. In December 2008 and 2009, hundreds were massacred and several dozen abducted in Haut Uélé district (Province Orientale).

scholarly journals Seroprevalence and Virus Activity of Rift Valley Fever in Cattle in Eastern Region of Democratic Republic of the Congo

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tshilenge M. Georges ◽  
Masumu Justin ◽  
Mbao Victor ◽  
Kayembe Jean Marie ◽  
Rweyemamu Mark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rift Valley ◽  
Rift Valley Fever ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Valley Fever ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
South Kivu ◽  
North Kivu

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic disease that is characterized by periodic and severe outbreaks in humans and animals. Published information on the occurrence of RVF in domestic animals is very scarce in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). To assess possible circulation of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) in cattle in the eastern province of DRC, 450 sera collected from cattle in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri provinces were analyzed using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), for the detection of viral Immunoglobulin (Ig) G and M, and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), for detection of viral RVF RNA. A cumulative anti-RVF IgG prevalence of 6.22% (95% CI 4.25–8.97) was recorded from the three provinces sampled. In North Kivu and Ituri provinces the anti-RVF IgG prevalence was 12.67% [95% CI 7.80–19.07] and 6% [95% CI 2.78–11.08], respectively, while all the sera collected from South Kivu province were negative for anti-RVF IgG antibodies. Anti-RVF IgM prevalence of 1.8% was obtained among sampled animals in the three provinces. None of the positive anti-RVF IgM samples (n=8) was positive for viral RVFV RNA using RT-PCR. Our findings suggest that RVFV is widely distributed among cattle in eastern province of DRC particularly in North Kivu and Ituri provinces although the epidemiological factors supporting this virus circulation remain unknown in these areas.

scholarly journals Show solidarity with the Congolese people in the 10th Ebola outbreak declared a health emergency of international concern: understand a qualitative study of variables of hospital activities on infection control practices in Kinshasa city

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guyguy Kabundi Tshima ◽  
Kaleb Tshimungu Kalala
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ebola Virus Disease ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
North Kivu

AbstractHealth workers play an important role during epidemics, but there is limited research on hospital activities on infection control practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and how health workers can cope during a probable health epidemic in Kinshasa city. The determinants of the current Ebola Virus Disease in the geographical distribution remain poorly understood. The World Health Organization’s Health Regulation Committee decided on Wednesday July 17th, 2019 to declare the Ebola haemorrhagic fever epidemic in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri as a health emergency of international concern. The country struggles to control it against a backdrop of a health system that is already overburdened. To test the influence of the challenges of a contamination in the context of an Ebola outbreak that may face health workers and their coping strategies in thirteen hospitals of reference in Kinshasa, we conducted a survey hoping to educate or remember good practices for health workers in Kinshasa that is also available for health workers in the East Area of the country in which the ongoing Ebola outbreak progress is spreading (North Kivu and Ituri). For the ongoing outbreak, we obtained data from the Ministère de la Santé Publique of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where cases are classified as suspected, probable, or confirmed using national case definitions. We found that the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has similar epidemiological features to previous Ebola virus disease outbreak in Sierra Leone that was well described. For the qualitative study about the biosecurity in thirteen hospitals of reference in Kinshasa, we found that the Bondeko-Ngaliema Monkole group has occupied the first rank, while the group Kintambo-King Baudouin-Ndjili-Makala occupied the other end of the scale; the other health facilities occupied an intermediate position. Among the 7 hospitals which were placed at the top of this classification of biosecurity, 5 were massively subsidized by international NGO, which explains to a great extent their performances in one hand, another hand finding its explanation in the quality of their management. It is the case of Bondeko, Monkole, Kalembe-Lembe, St Joseph and Kingasani 2.Author summaryThe determinants of the transmission are poorly understood, but a growing body of evidence supports an important role of the lack of prevention in the dissemination of Ebola virus. The results of our study conducted in 13 hospitals of reference in Kinshasa suggest that the biosecurity measures—which were introduced in Kinshasa hospitals policies through prevention since Ebola outbreaks—have been respected by 75% and had 25% of parameters to be improved. Biosecurity is an important concept; it seems to be a vector for the prevention of Ebola Virus Disease. In addition, the lack of biosecurity observation may have a role in the contamination of Ebola Virus Disease in local populations found in invaded areas. This study provides knowledge into the preventive measures influencing Ebola Virus Disease populations, thereby determining in perspective a study on meat consumption of animals found dead in forests that will be a risk for human infection as the Democratic Republic of the Congo has many forests.

scholarly journals Peacebuilding as State Building? Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-320
Author(s):  
Rachel Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
State Building ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
The Future ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
North Kivu

Abstract This chapter on the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a comparative study of two major intervention attempts of the UN Peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUSCO) in different theaters of conflict in North Kivu: one that was seen as a success (against the M23 rebellion, 2012–2013), and the other a failure (against the ADF rebellion, 2014–present). The chapter examines how differences in armed groups’ social embedment within local communities shaped resistance against the intervention and produced these varied outcomes of success/failure. The comparison allows for the examination of an emerging trend in peacekeeping—its militarization—as well as a consideration of how differences in civilian relations shape the possibility for peacebuilding. As the largest mission in UN history, these experiences offer empirical lessons for thinking about the future trajectory of peacebuilding.

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