WHO is sending two epidemiologists and two logisticians from Geneva to support its eight national staff in North Kivu and six in South Kivu.(世衛組織將從日內瓦派遣兩名流行病學家和兩名后勤專家以支持其在基伍北部的8名國家工作人員和在基伍南部的6名國家工作人員。)

In all of North Kivu, there have been at least 997 cholera cases reported in that time, with most recorded in Rutshuru (466), Goma (263) and Karisimbi (145).(當時在基伍北部整個地區，報告了至少997例霍亂病例，大多在魯丘魯(466例)、戈馬（263例）和Karisimbi（145例）。)

In lake Kivu, bacteria in the lake convert the CO2 into methane, which is highly flammable and could trigger an even more dangerous lake explosion.(在基伍湖里，細菌將CO2轉換成非常易燃的沼氣，隨時都可能引發更加危險的爆炸。)

In 1994, some 50 000 people died from a combined epidemic of cholera and dysentery linked to the Rwandan exodus into Goma, the main town of North Kivu.(1994年，約5萬人死于霍亂和痢疾共同造成的流行，這與當時盧旺達流亡人口涌入基伍北部的一個主要城鎮戈馬有關。)

Separately, WHO launched an emergency heath response plan to treat the affected populations in North and South Kivu, where 80% of the population is not fully vaccinated.(世衛組織另外還啟動了緊急衛生應對計劃以治療基伍北部和南部受影響的人群，因為近80%的人口未充分接種過疫苗。)

War has destroyed health services in South Kivu and prevented local and international organisations from running HIV/AIDS sensitisation programmes in rural areas.(戰爭摧毀了南基伍省的醫療服務設施，并阻止當地和國際組織在農村地區進行HIV/AIDS敏感性調查項目。)

The UN refugee agency reports thousands of Congolese refugees have fled to Uganda and Rwanda in the past few days seeking safety from escalating fighting in North Kivu province.(聯合國難民署報告說，幾千名剛果難民在過去幾天逃到烏干達和盧旺達，尋求安全庇護地點，躲避北基伍省日益升級的戰斗。)

The ship was reported to be traveling from the town of Minova to the city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province.(據報道，這艘船當時正從米諾瓦鎮駛向南基伍省會布卡武市。)

But the security there, in North and South Kivu, has deteriorated badly since August.(但是基伍湖的北部與南部的安全問題卻在今年8月以來出現極度的惡化。)

The crisis is centred on North Kivu, which has a population of more than 5 million people, including 1.5 million people displaced by the latest emergency and previous long-running hostilities.(危機以基伍北部為中心，該地的人口超過500萬人，包括因最近的緊急情況和以前的長期戰爭而流離失所的150萬人。)