Geneva - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that on Sunday, March 15, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) carried out attacks on Banda, a village in Haut Uélé, northern DRC.

MSF has been providing treatment for patients with Sleeping Sickness for almost a year in Banda, a village 150km southwest of Doruma.

"The majority of the MSF team, including all expatriate staff members, is now safe," said Marc Poncin, MSF programme manager for DRC, based in Geneva. "However, we still don't know what is currently happening in Banda, or what happened to our Congolese staff or to the population remaining there, especially the hospital patients. This is our main concern today."

During the first hours of the attack, contact was lost with the MSF team. It was only later the same day that MSF received the news that all its expatriate staff members were safe.