Congolese refugees face poverty and racism in Brazil

Periskopi

29 May 2018, 12:13(8 years ago)

Continued riots in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have killed 5.4 million as a result of wars, diseases and malnutrition since the conflict began in 1945, says the International Rescue Committee. War suffering has forced 675, 000 people to flee their countries, the effect is feeling even more [...]

War suffering has forced 675,000 people to flee their countries, the effect is feeling even more in Brazil's Rido de Janeiro.

According to recent numbers, 658 Congolese are waiting to receive residence permits in this city, more than other citizens. While, 943 others are waiting to receive refugee status.

In Rio's impoverished and remote area, many Congolese immigrants have investigated, that it is very painful to be under the orders of criminal gangs, reports “Al Jazeera”, the Periscope broadcast.

They say they want to go home if that's possible.

The Congolese refugees find it difficult to adopt in Brazilian life, for they are forced to learn Portuguese to find work that is almost impossible for them./Periscopi/

The immigrants are totally very hard and offer only more articles to eat. Here, Musemba is seen catch open a pig's head they were given, so it could be started. The Congoese still prepare the food of their homeland, such as fufu, a dough-like mass of cassava, which is available with the legs and finished in a soup. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

Despite being more than 6,437km away from the Democrat Republic of Congo, Rio de Janeiro hosts 940 refugees from the war-torn nation. ♫ Many live in the public favela institutions in the northern periphery of the city, including Ali Kambilu Mbemba, 24, pictured here in the traditional lunches of his homeland. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

A mother and her child, both refugees from the DRC, are painted in the Ramos favela in Rio de Janeiro. Single mothers, who are within sleeping sexual cities, suffer great, with little chance of work or children. This woman asked not to be identified for fear of change if she was to return home. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

Luta Espoir-Babou, 23, was a successful footballer in his homeland. He played as an attackfielder for Dragons. In Rio, he took part in the Amateur Society World Cup, a local tour, in 2016. Here, he is seen in a training session with other violent refugees in the Bras de Pina favela in the land of Rio. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

A single mother from DRC, wakes up with her son in the Bras de Pina favela where she lives in Northern Rio. She works at a beautiful slogan, swimming the hair of African women. Pretty much arrived in Brazil, she doesn't speak Portuguese. She lives alone with her son; his father is in the DRC. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

A refugee from the DRC offers a Christian robbery at a church in the Bras de Pine favela. The Congoese Face Racism, political and unannouncement in favelas dominated by wood transfficers. But many believe hopeul of better days in Brazil in which their dreams of freedom are real. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

Ali Kambilu Mbeba, 24, a refugee from the DRC, smokes a cigarette in his home in the Cinco Bocas favela in Northern Rio de Janeiro. With little money, many of the Congoese who have slept to the Marvelous City here live in crime units in research, sometimes with several men to a room. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

Stylist Mao Mbong, 37, a refugee from the DRC exhibits blazers, blockes and skirts she has made in the rule of her homeland for room to her company in the Cinco Bocas favela in nor Rio de Janeiro. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

In a relaxed moment, Mbeba, a refugee from the DRC, is seen swimming in the Pisciano de Ramos, a vast mane-made pool and beach accident to Guanabara Bay in Rio and part of Mare, a far removed favela complex. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]

Underneath a portrait of Nelson Mandela, Moises Eureka, a 23-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, recovers from tuberculosis. In the position outsiders of Rio, the Congoese bide good doctors and medicine are unavailable. [Fabio Teixeira/ Al Jazeera]