# The International Committee of the Red Cross reports that more than 80-percent of healthcare facilities have exhausted their supplies of essential medicines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence continues unabated. A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda in June is proving slow to take effect on the ground. For 30 years, the country’s mineral-rich east has been ravaged by conflict, with violence intensifying earlier this year when the M23, a Rwandan-backed armed group, seized the key cities of Goma and Bukavu.
Red Cross says 80% of healthcare facilities in DRC have run out of essential medicines