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WFP takes “stop-gap measure”

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    WFP on Thursday announced it had borrowed US $1.5 million from its emergency fund to meet the “immediate” food needs of some 100,000 of the worst-affected people returning to Brazzaville. In a statement, WFP said the one-month supplies were a “stop-gap measure” until it received contributions for its US $7 million emergency operation to feed 200,000 people over the next three months. The returnees, mostly Congolese women and children, have spent the last several months in the bush subsisting on leaves and roots. “Each day approximately 1,500 people have been streaming into Brazzaville and Pointe Noire after the government opened two humanitarian corridors in early May,” WFP said.

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