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Refugees in western DRC

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    Meanwhile, the western DRC province of Bas-Congo is currently hosting some 22,500 refugees from the Pool region of Congo-Brazzaville and about 21,500 newly-arrived refugees from the M’banza Congo area of Angola, UNHCR said yesterday in its latest Great Lakes update. Additional UNHCR staff been deployed to the DRC to help set up camps for the refugees from those two countries. Most of the Congolese refugees will be moved to a new site in the Bas-Congo town of Luozi, while 10,000 of the 21,500 recently-arrived Angolan refugees will be moved to Kimpese, also in Bas-Congo, UNHCR said.

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