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UNHCR deploying emergency teams to border areas

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    Meanwhile, in the Republic of Congo (RoC), UNHCR is deploying an emergency team to border areas with improved security to help an estimated 25,000 refugees from the DRC who are residing there, Janowski added. The agency further estimates that there are about 100,000 DRC refugees scattered along an 800 km stretch of the Oubangui river. “Supplying them with aid - be it by boat or by road - has been extremely difficult because of logistics and continued fighting along the river, which occasionally spills over to the Republic of Congo side,” he added.

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