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WFP extends emergency operation for DRC refugees

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The human toll of the failed coup attempt remained difficult to ascertain on Friday.
    NAIROBI

    The UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Friday that its emergency operation for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the Central African Republic has been extended to 15 April 2002.

    Following a joint food-needs assessment conducted between December 2001 and January 2002, WFP and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agreed to continue providing over 5,000 refugees with food aid. Of these, 2,800 are settled in a camp where they are receiving full rations. The remaining refugees reside in the capital, Bangui. While most of those in Bangui are considered to be largely self-sufficient, the assessment mission suggested that 35 percent of them be given a partial ration to supplement their limited coping capacity, bringing the total caseload to 5,030.

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