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Heads of state call for humanitarian crisis unit

    NAIROBI

    The heads of state of seven central African states have called for the urgent creation of a humanitarian crisis unit to address the needs and implications of war-displaced people in the region. "The problem is particularly the movement of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Central African Republic and from the Congo Republic towards Gabon. Neither my country nor the Central African Republic, hosts to a large number of refugees, are set up to welcome these brothers and sisters,'' Reuters news agency quoted host President, Omar Bongo of Gabon, as saying.

    In a final communique from Libreville, the Congo Republic, DRC, Gabon, Chad, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe also attacked "the attitude of the international community which marginalises Africa in general, and Central Africa in particular, by not taking sufficient account of the continent's humanitarian problems."

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