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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that it expected to secure funding soon to keep its food pipeline to refugees in Namibia flowing beyond March.
The food agency said two weeks ago that it would run out of corn soya blend and sugar by the end of February and out of all food commodities by the end of March. WFP feeds at least 19,500 refugees in Namibia, most of them from Angola, the country's war-torn northern neighbour.
On Monday WFP spokesperson in Luanda, Cristina Muller, told IRIN. "We have full confidence that within the next few days we will have a significant contribution to feed Namibian refugees, which should help the food pipeline for at least another two months." The number of Angolans registered in camps in Rundu and Osire has increased steadily - in fits and starts - over the past few years.
Meanwhile, in another development affecting refugees, the Namibian reported on Monday that the US government had spent about US $20,000 on the construction of a kindergarten for children at the Osire refugee camp.
According to the newspaper, US ambassador to Namibia, Kevin McGuire, handed over two classroom blocks to the Osire authorities on Thursday. The structure could accommodate up to 300 of the approximately 2,000 children at the camp, the newspaper said.
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