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24,000 IDPs in Ebo lack food, medicine

    JOHANNESBURG

    Approximately 24,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) stationed at Ebo municipality, in the Angolan province of Cuanza Sul, are currently living in a "dramatic" situation due to the lack of food and medicine, Portuguese radio said on Thursday. The local administrator, Arlindo de Almeida was quoted as saying that the supply of food to the needy people, distributed by the ministry of assistance and social reintegration and some NGOs that operate in the region "was not sufficient to assist the population".

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