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WFP feeds 486,900 refugees in Tanzania

    NAIROBI

    At least 486,900 refugees in Kigoma, Kibondo, Kasulu and Ngara districts in northwestern Tanzania received some 2,455 mt of food from 22 October to 4 November, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in its emergency report of 9 November.

    WFP reported that it supplied around 90 percent of the standard food ration to all beneficiaries, except for 3,900 extremely vulnerable people who each received a full ration. In addition, WFP said it supported various therapeutic feeding centres and supplemental feeding centres with 72 mt of food to over 18,300 malnourished persons.

    WFP reported that since 1 November it has been in a position to increase the food ration scale from 80 percent to 100 percent of the standard ration. Dood coordination meetings were held for camp level leaders in all locations during the last two weeks to inform the refugees of this change, it added. A regional UNHCR official told IRIN that from 1 January to 30 September there were 6,445 Democratic Republic of Congo refugees in Tanzania; some 3,200 of who, fleeing fighting, arrived between 15 and 23 October.

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