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Ogata calls for donor support and political action

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    Meanwhile, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said on Thursday in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, that UNHCR would continue working to ease the situation of refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa but that renewed action was needed at a political level to solve the root causes of the problem, a UNHCR spokesperson told IRIN on Friday. Ogata, on a regional tour, was scheduled to conclude her meetings with DRC officials on Sunday.

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