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WFP needs resources to help Angolan refugees

    NAIROBI

    WFP needs urgent donor support to respond to the needs of Angolan refugees in southwestern DRC, the latest WFP weekly emergency report said.

    It said the funding situation for the programme was "critical," with only six percent of the requirements contributed so far. WFP has advanced about US
    $1.5 million from its "immediate response account" to purchase food supplies until donations are received, the report added. The operation is meant to provide emergency food assistance to some 40,000 Angolan refugees in several camps in the Kisenge area of Katanga province, where 24 percent malnutrition rates were reported among refugee children in February.

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