Oxfam-Québec’s director general notes the impact of Trump cuts in humanitarian aid

The director general of Oxfam-Québec says she has seen with horror the impact of cups in the international humanitarian aid of Donald Trump in the Congo, where armed groups are carrying out war in violence that makes a defenseless population suffer.

“Help me, please, so that I don’t have to sell my body for sexual services like other women around me.”

This is how a Congolese in their twenties begged Beatrice. Therefore, a few days ago, in order to obtain something to remain.

The Quebecer visited the villages near Goma. Consequently, a metropolis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

During his interview with The newspapershe was in Kinshasa, the capital, with her Oxfam-USa counterpart, Abby Maxman.

Donald’s cuts

They found it with amazement with the impacts of the massive cuts in the humanitarian aid of Donald Trump while “the population tries to survive”. blows the DG of Oxfam-Québec.

In March, the American president abandoned 83% of the programs of the International Development Agency USAID. It represented 70% of humanitarian aid in eastern Congo, a region particularly affected by the conflict, according to M^me Vaugrante.

“It happened at a time when the population needed it seriously,” she deplores. The rebel group M23. at war with the government and supported by neighboring Rwanda, extended its stranglehold in this region at the start of the year.

Violence. hunger

The rebels forced the refugees to return “to villages where there is nothing” because of the destruction caused by this conflict involving a multitude of armed groups, summarizes the leader of Oxfam-Québec.

“We do not know what other powers support these groups,” she says. There are a lot of rare ores in the DRC that go to our phones and our batteries. ”

In the villages. she met a widow taking care of eight children “when there is no more water, no more food”. “She had to work in the fields or by carrying equipment for meager under,” oxfam-québec’s director general notes impact laments M^me Vaugrante.

Rapes. kidnappings

While the defenseless villagers are killed or kidnapped in the middle of the night by soldiers who plunder the houses, “a woman is raped every four minutes,” said a UN agency.

“It often happens when they work on the roads or in the fields,” says Vaugrante Béatrice. Even soldiers of the country’s army, the FARDC, martyise women, especially during collective rapes, the UN reported.

Oxfam is therefore mobilized to transport food. care and hygiene products while similar smallpox, malaria and cholera add to the ailments of the population.

A ceasefire facilitated by the United States was signed between the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda on June 27, but Béatrice Vaugrant does not observe tangible results at the moment. Conflicts have been linked for thirty years in the DRC when 6 million people have lost their lives there. due to armed violence since 1998.