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Aid funding needed to help victims of recent fighting

    NAIROBI

    The aid organisation Caritas International is appealing for US $900,000 to help resettle thousands people displaced by renewed fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

    "The Asia tsunami makes it more difficult to find funding for new emergencies like these," a Caritas official told IRIN on Thursday.

    Caritas said it was seeking funding for a two-month programme to "restore some semblance of normalcy for families returning to pillaged homes". The organisations said it planned to supply recipients with eating utensils, clothing, and medicine as well as to help restore crop production.

    The UN Mission in the DRC, MONUC, estimates that 150,000 people in Kanyabayonga and other towns in the province of North Kivu were displaced in December 2004 after units of the Congolese army fought each.

    A consolidated appeal of $185.4 million was launched for the DRC for 2005 by the UN Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCHA) but according to OCHA Humanitarian Affairs Adviser Jeanne Cooper "our appeal does take into account new crises like these".

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