In 2002, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published research on the two million people, who were isolated without the possibility of access to health services.

With this in mind, the Bishop of Basankusu, Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku, asked the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) to implement a health project in Baringa, to remedy the situation.

The project finished at the end of 2005 as more international attention was drawn to the situation, other NGOs began to take charge of Baringa and the wider area's nutrition and health needs.

In 1904, an investigation commission sent by Leopold II, King of the Belgians came to Baringa to gather evidence of crimes perpetrated by the Congo Free State administration against the local population.

Upon handing over each twig to the commission, he cited one name representing a villager, man, woman, or child, who was killed by the troops of the Congo Free State.