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Over 350 families displaced

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    Some 380 Rwandan families who were evicted from the Gishwati forest in western Rwanda recently are yet to be resettled, the Rwanda News Agency reported. According to RNA, the evicted families, who are camping out at Rusekura in the Karago commune of Gisenyi, received a consignment of relief aid from the Rwanda Red Cross last week. RNA said they would be re-allocated land in the Mutura and Giciye communes on the outskirts of the Virunga national park. It added they were relocated because they were destroying the forest’s ecosystem by cutting down trees.

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