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Risk of disease outbreaks increases in DRC's Goma: UN

Runways at the city's airport sustained significant damage in the recent fighting and are unusable. Aid cannot be flown in as only roads into neighboring Rwanda are open, and the domestic arteries are closed.

MONUSCO infrastructure is stretched, if not overwhelmed, with all those in the bases and under significant pressure to sustain people with water, rations and sanitation.
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision


UNITED NATIONS - While calm is being restored in Goma, the key eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the risk of disease outbreaks, including

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