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With security improving in DR Congo’s Kasai, thousands of refugees head home from Angola

With security improving in DR Congo’s Kasai, thousands of refugees head home from Angola

New York, Aug 24 (IBNS): As security has improved in the restive Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some 8,500 refugees have left the Lóvua settlement in Angola’s north-east Lunda Norte province in the past week, hoping to cross the border and return home, according to the UN refugee agency.

Around 260,000 children in DR Congo’s Kasai region suffering severe acute malnutrition

Around 260,000 children in DR Congo’s Kasai region suffering severe acute malnutrition

New York, Mar 14 (IBNS): More than a quarter of a million children in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – and thousands of others who have fled with their families to nearby provinces – are suffering severe and acute malnutrition, and need lifesaving treatment, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday.

DR Congo: Flaring tensions could ‘plunge Kasai region into new violence,’ UN warns

DR Congo: Flaring tensions could ‘plunge Kasai region into new violence,’ UN warns

New York, Mar 7 (JEN): The United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that ongoing instability in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) poses a grave risk to civilian safety, including for several hundred refugees recently returned there from Angola.