Existing intercommunity tensions became part of a wider conflict involving militias, armed groups and security forces across a region the size of Germany. Women and children displaced by violence have escaped to isolated locations to find safety – losing access to essential goods and services such as health care, safe water and sanitation, and education. The violent conflict that broke out in Congo’s Kasa provinces in 2016 caused more than 3,300 deaths and, at its peak, up to 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), has largely subsided, but it has left pockets of instability, deep grievances and acute ethnic tension, as well as widespread destruction and destitution that will continue to haunt the Kasaï region, in particular Kasaï and Kasaï Central provinces. The teachers panicked, sent the children home, and fled. On 12 August 2016, he was killed alongside eight other militiamen and 11 policemen in Tshimbulu. Initially proposed as only a province, South Kasai sought full autonomy in similar circumstances to the much larger neighbouring state of Katanga, to its south, during the political turmoil arising from the independence of the Belgian Congo known as the Congo Crisis. Villagers hid for months on an island in a river nearby. Violence initially flared in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2016, sparked by tensions between customary chiefs in Kasai-Central Province and the government. Conflict in the Kasai region at a glance What is the Kasaï crisis? World Vision staff and volunteers sing and dance with children at a Child-Friendly Space outside Kananga, in Kasai-Central, DRC. Many children in their village were in school when conflict broke out between militia and soldiers in May. Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo - For the past three years, the Kasai-Central province has been the scene of deadly clashes between the Kamuina … Dissatisfied that the new government had not fulfilled its promises, several rebels had resumed their insurgency. A new conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen hundreds killed, a million displaced and the reported recruitment of thousands of child … Many young children missed out on scheduled vaccinations because violence and displacement destroyed health centres and disrupted immunization campaigns – making them even more susceptible to deadly childhood diseases.The disruption of education by the conflict is robbing the children in the Kasai region of a viable future.UNICEF and its partners have achieved some critical results for children in the Kasai region.
In Kasaï, more than one in ten children may die from the consequences of malnutrition Conflict in the Kasai region at a glance What is the Kasai crisis? Today, 3.8 million people in the Kasai region need humanitarian assistance, including 2.3 million children.UNICEF is on the ground helping to deliver life-saving supplies and services. Nevertheless, fighting continued and a new surge of violence in February 2018 caused about 11,000 people in Kasaï to flee their homes.The United Nations estimated that about 5,000 people had been killed overall during the fighting by August 2018, though the violence did "still fall short of genocide".The security situation once again worsened in May 2019. Violence initially flared in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2016, sparked by tensions between customary chiefs in Kasai-Central Province and the government. Since January 2017, UNICEF and partners have treated 71,500 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition; and, since August 2017, vaccinated 2 million children for measles; provided access to water, sanitation and hygiene services for more than 326,400 children; and assisted more than 1,700 children released from militias. The violence spread rapidly in early 2017. The city of The Kamwina Nsapu rebels are only loosely connected and operate in various autonomous factions.Although relatively poorly armed, with most of their weaponry looted or stolen from the Congolese security forces,The militia has also been noted for its extensive recruitment of Its splintered nature causes the rebellion to have no clear goals.The conflict has evolved from a rebellion against the state into ethnic violence.Reportedly, half the Kamwina Nsapu militia is under 14,The UN Human Rights Council denounced "slavery-like" practices on parts of Bana Mura militants who were involved in fighting the rebellion.