Human Wrongs Watch
By the International Organization for Migration*
Cibitoke, Burundi – The last thing Elizabeth Uwimana remembered before the Rusizi River swallowed her two eldest children is the fear in their eyes as a violent surge of water tore them from her grasp.
Elizabeth Uwimana sits at a transit site in Burundi, exhausted after fleeing violence in the DRC with her children. Photo: IOM Burundi 2025/Alexander Bee
“The river took them from me,” she whispers, seated in a makeshift shelter surrounded by hundreds of other displaced families. “To this day, I don’t know if they are alive.”
Elizabeth, a mother of four, is among tens of thousands who fled renewed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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