Telling the ECSA Story

STORY 1 Women saving for peace in South Sudan By Joseph Scott, Communications and Policy Coordinator As dawn breaks in Panyagor, the town main market starts to show some activity as people trickle in to set up stalls and others to open their shops. The early morning peace is occasionally broken by sounds of     stray goats and cows tussling for drinking water from the many puddles that dots the market’s narrow streets. In a distance, some white smoke can be seen wafting from an iron sheet structure just close to the main street. Inside the structure, a young woman is kneeling over a large firewood stove making fire. Women leading in small businesses x Her name is Adau Asok Khor,25 and she runs one of the biggest restaurant in the main market. “I started small,” says Adau adding, “I had a small shop just behind the street where I prepared tea for my customers. Now, I own this big place.”   Adau’s journey to success sta

Deadly Rebel Attack Underscores Difficulty of Containing Ebola in the DRC B ENI , Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sept. 24, 2018) – Clashes between the national army and an armed group, which killed 18 people and injured 8 here over the weekend, have forced aid groups to suspend parts of the Ebola response, highlighting how difficult it is to contain the first outbreak of the deadly virus in a war zone. Ebola has now claimed at least 100 lives in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Meanwhile, the total number of people infected continues to grow, reaching 150 on Monday. “This attack and similar clashes pose serious security threats to the local population. In addition, they affect the ability of humanitarian agencies to respond to the outbreak,” says Dr. Saad El-Din Hassan, CARE’s team leader for the Ebola response in Beni, DRC. “Our scheduled interventions to support infection prevention and control were put on hold to mourn the lives lost

Nobody wants to be a refugee, sometimes life throws at you predicaments that leave you no choice but to run away from your homeland. Read the heart-wrenching stories of these individuals who fled from DRC to Uganda in search of peace. This peace cost them families members, jobs and a chance to serve their country. x As thousands of other refugees of the Kyangwali camp in Uganda, Jackson, 28, has a heart-breaking story.  Just a few months ago, before fighting in his home town broke out, Jackson was living in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with his wife and their two-year-old daughter. After graduating from university, he was preparing to become a professor. But the war changed everything. His village was attacked in the middle of the night by armed men. During flight, he lost sight of his wife and daughter. He arrived in Uganda after crossing Lake Albert three weeks ago. Since then, he has not heard of them and has no means to reach them.