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UN Airlifts Aid Into Angola for DRC Asylum Seekers

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UN said that more than a million civilians have been displaced inside DRC since brutal conflict broke out in Kasai region in mid-2016, with about 25,000 asylum seekers crossing into Angola
The United Nations’ refugee agency on Sunday airlifted its first batch of relief supplies to the more than 11,000 people on Angola’s northern border fleeing the latest violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) .
The U. N. said that more than a million civilians have been displaced inside the DRC since a brutal conflict broke out in the Kasai region in mid-2016, with about 25,000 asylum seekers crossing into Angola.
« Arrivals are in urgent need of life-saving assistance, including food, water, shelter and medical services,  » the U. N. Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) southern Africa representative, Sharon Cooper, said in a statement.

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