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Some 600,000 displaced people are living in desperate conditions, with inadequate access to food and exposed to violence in camps around Goma, in the North Kivu region. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s medical teams have witnessed alarming rates of malnutrition and a retrospective mortality survey carried out by Epicentre reveals a very high mortality rate. in some of the camps. UN agencies recently announced they would be stepping up their efforts to meet the needs of people in the east of the country. These intentions urgently need to be translated into additional assistance and protection in line with displaced people’s needs.