Yao Bongoma
Yao Bongoma is a communications officer for Oxfam GB in Democratic Republic of Congo. Yao recently travelled to Congo's violent eastern region to report on Oxfam's reponse there and to collect stories from communities and individuals about the challenges they face.
Choosing between water and food in eastern Congo
I'm back in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a month after visiting Oxfam's cholera emergency project in the town. This time I'm here to talk to people who've been displaced by recent violence in North Kivu province. Since the end of last year, the United Nations estimates 300,000 people have fled fighting in the ethnically diverse region, much of it between Congo's army and troops loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda. ...
