Congo-Kinshasa: UN Ramping Up Aid to Feed 100,000 Displaced in East

18 November 2008

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is increasing its food distributions in the war-ravaged east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a bid to reach almost 100,000 people uprooted by the conflict.

The agency seeks to reach the displaced around Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, and in areas further north which are controlled by renegade general Laurent Nkunda, who heads the militia known as the Congress in Defence of the People (CNDP).

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