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Congolese Refugees at Kigeme camp received non-food items in donation, from world vision which include bars of soap, hygienic pads and clothes.

Around 4,000 refugees gathered on site at Kigeme Refugee camp in Nyamagabe district to receive the hygiene and sanitation supplies.

“World Vision could have waited to gather more items and food for the camp, but felt the need to intervene sooner because health is a crucial and sensitive issue in camp life” Jimmy Gahima, World Division employee says.

However the area mayor Philbert Mugisha asked the refugees to properly use the supplies given for their health, and not to try to sell them.

“While the non-food items from World Vision are appreciated, many children in the camp still don’t have the right food for a proper diet and we need more help for refugees” Emmanuel Niyibaho, Kigeme camp manager says.

Currently Kigeme camp boosts more than 11,000 refugees in Kigeme camp and on Saturday, the camp stopped receiving more people because it had hit its capacity.

The camp manager disclosed that between four and five hundred refugees were arriving in the camp daily.

However, he said government is now trying to find more land in order to expand Kigeme camp, so it can resume receiving refugees from Nkamira transit camp on the Rwanda-Congo border.

The refugee’s influx started increasing in last 2months when the M23 rebels and government forces tightened fights in Eastern DR Congo forcing locals to free their homes to Rwanda.

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Helpless Angelique Mukamutesi has failed to identify her former place of residence after coming back from Congo forests where she had fled to during the 1994 tragedy.

23 aged mother of three discloses that before going to Congo, they were living in Murama sector, Rukira district in Eastern province.

Upon her arrival, Mukamutesi was taken to Ngoma by concerned Rwanda authorities this April 2012 but she could not trace where their home was located.

Mukamutesi, who went to Congo with her mother and sister, separated from her and lost her mother before she married the father (JMV) of her three children.

The poor woman does not know the full names of her father or children she played with but remembers the name of the sector and the district.

Mukamutesi who heard the name Zakariya as her father from the mother searched for the father in vain and all people with Zakariya names confirmed not to know her or any relative of theirs in Congo.

After the two days of fruitless search for her family members, Angelique Mukamutesi is at Murama sector offices being fed by district administration.

She claims to have nothing on her because Pareko solidiers took away everything she had.

Mukamutesi requests Rwanda government to give her shelter so that she can work with her hands for survival like any other Rwandan.

Executive secretary for Murama sector Francis Bushayija highlights that this case is beyond their capacity and that she will be handed over to the district for solution.