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My dear friend Teresa, who herself worked as a doctor in Rwanda and will go back to work in a hospital in Nairobi soon, showed me this impressive video about the situation in eastern Congo today.

Unfortunately, the embedding doesn’t work properly – the video can be found here: http://www.condition-critical.org/

It is taken from the website Condition: Critical, published by Medecins sans Frontières. While it doesn’t contain a lot of background information, it gives a depressing impression of individual situations in the Kivus.

I wrote some more about Congo here and here.

Fighting has errupted in the past week in the area around Goma, located in the Nord-Kivu region bordering to Rwanda. Having spent a big part of 2006 working on the UNICEF and UNHCR transports going from Dar es Salaam (in Tanzania, and a major port, more information see here) to Goma makes one feel even more desperate.

However, the Maniema region and its capital Kindu seem to be largely unaffected. In fact, the provincial government has enacted a deescalation strategy which apparently seems to work fine. As it looks right now, my stay in Congo from January to March will not be affected.

I found some more shots from Africa in my picture folders and uploaded them to my flickr account. Also, I created a small overview site on my stays in Africa, which can be found either here or in the top navigation bar.