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Displaced people flock to capital

[Chad] These storage tanks hold crude oil from three fields in southern Chad. The oil is then sent to the pipeline which delivers it to the Cameroon coast more than 1,000 km away. Esso Photo
Réservoirs de stockage du pétrole au Tchad
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    Angola's minister for Assistance and Social Reintegration, Albino Malungo, has said the country's humanitarian situation was "very grim" and on the verge of disaster with an estimated 1.6 million people displaced by fighting and some 3.5 million "affected by the war" around the Central Highlands cities of Huambo and Kuito, and further east in Luena. In a statement, he said that over the past two months an estimated 200,000 internally displaced people had flocked to the capital Luanda and that approximately 90,000 of them were in "a difficult condition, sleeping in the streets and begging".

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