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Red Cross reunites 45 children with their families

    NAIROBI

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reunited 45 children separated from their families by the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    An ICRC statement said one of its aircraft flew the unaccompanied children, aged between six and 17 years, between the eastern and western parts of the country. The aircraft flew 17 children from Goma in the eastern province of North Kivu to the capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday, and returned on Friday, bringing 28 other children home to Goma.

    The ICRC said some of the children had been separated from their families for years.

    Since the beginning of 2003, the ICRC has reunited more than 240 Congolese children with their parents.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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