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New Congolese refugees now “rare”

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    About 97,000 Congolese refugees have arrived in western Tanzania since the start of the DRC conflict last year, but the influx has virtually ceased since August, UNHCR said in its Africa fact sheet. “Rare new arrivals say that the embattled South Kivu area from which the majority of the refugees have fled is now firmly under the control of anti-Kinshasa rebel forces,” it said. The weekly rate of new arrivals into Kigoma dropped from 3,300 to 100 people between July and August, it added.

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