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Thousands of displaced sheltering in Catholic mission

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    At least 20,000 displaced people lacking food and clean water have sought shelter at the Takir Roman Catholic Mission on the outskirts of Bissau, the missionary news agency, MISNA, reported today. Father Renato Rovelli, a missionary, told the agency that hungry, frightened children had been sleeping in the mission courtyard with adults in poor sanitary conditions.

    “The odour of the latrines is enough to make anyone sick and there is no water to wash with,” he said.

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