Did you see this on CNN?
admin November 27th, 2009
As an example of the chaos and disruption that goes on in Africa without people in the North really noticing, two stories on Reuters’ AlertNet caught the eye. In the first it was reported that the World Food Programme (WFP) next week will start distributing food aid to more than 50,000 people driven out of their homes by ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This outbreak of fighting, which is unrelated to simmering rebel violence in the mineral-rich east, erupted at the end of last month and has forced more than 38,000 people to flee across the border into neighbouring Congo Republic and displaced 14,000 others internally, according to the WFP.
All of these people are likely to be needing shelter as well as food aid.
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