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Need for eastern Equateur assessment

    NAIROBI

    The OCHA mission was told that departing Chadian soldiers in Gemena had looted “half of the town”, but recent essential drug deliveries by the Belgian NGO MEMISA and the European Humanitarian Community Office (ECHO) had addressed the area’s major outstanding humanitarian need, it said. Local health personnel said the area had experienced only one air strike, at the end of January, resulting in 30 civilian casualties. While northern Equateur was relatively stable, there was a need to assess eastern parts of the province, where it was feared the humanitarian situation could be critical on account of conflict and sustained population displacement, the report added.

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