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More displaced people in northwest

    NAIROBI

    The number of people displaced by fighting in the northwest Equateur
    province continues to increase. According to a report from the Office for
    the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kinshasa, some 8,000
    displaced people in Bokungu have no access to drinking water and the
    over-population is "alarming". The report said the main hospital had been
    looted and malaria and malnutrition were rife. In Boende, 12,000 displaced
    people are occupying five sites, while in Yalusaka the population has shot
    up from 1,000 to 10,000 in just a few weeks, with most people fleeing the
    fighting in Ikela. Elsewhere in the country, some 20,000 displaced people
    are languishing in the forests of Ituri in the northeast, scene of bloody
    ethnic clashes earlier in the year. The report said they were refusing to
    leave because most of them had no clothes.

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