DR Congo allocates $120 million to four hospitals
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Desk Eco
FRIVAO, the fund responsible for compensating victims of Uganda’s illicit activities in DR Congo, is releasing $120 million to build modern hospitals in Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri and Tshopo. The announcement was made in Kinshasa by its president Dismas Kitenge at the opening of an extraordinary session, according to Desk Eco.
The Special Fund for Reparation and Compensation for Victims of Uganda’s Illicit Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (FRIVAO) will release an additional $120 million to finance the construction of modern hospitals in the provinces of Haut-Uélé, Bas-Uélé, Ituri and Tshopo. The funding was announced on 10 November in Kinshasa by Dismas Kitenge, chairman of the FRIVAO board of directors, on the instructions of State Minister for Justice Guillaume Ngefa.
The hospital projects in Kisangani, Isiro and Buta are among the cases examined during an extraordinary FRIVAO session opened on 10 November and scheduled to run until 14 November. The administrators will also examine the resolutions adopted in July, the situation of staff and the completion of the Six-Day War Memorial in Kisangani, according to FRIVAO.
The board will also examine individual compensation in Tshopo, including an audit of the register of 14,800 victims in Kisangani who, according to FRIVAO, received $2,000 each. The audit, carried out by an independent firm, is intended to identify possible irregularities in the list of beneficiaries. The session devoted to speeding up reparations follows the extraordinary FRIVAO session in Kinshasa.
