Local residents and humanitarian workers are trying to recover from devastating floods and landslides around Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 400 have been confirmed dead and thousands have been left homeless in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in recent history. Marco Werman speaks with Liliana Palacios, a health adviser for Médecins Sans Frontières, currently in South Kivu near the flooding.
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