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Unaccompanied children without support

    NAIROBI

    Humanitarian sources told IRIN on Wednesday that 96 children who lost their parents during the August 1998 Kazika massacre were now in the Mwenga area of South Kivu province where they were not receiving any kind of assistance, except that provided by the local community. The minors were part of a group of 109 unaccompanied children who had escaped Kazika.
    Thirteen others in the group had already died, the sources said.
    Meanwhile, a total of 1,324 unaccompanied children in South Kivu have been registered and are receiving support from local NGOs, while another 883 have been identified but remain unassisted, the sources added.

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