Congo-Kinshasa: UN Official Stresses Need to Boost Relief for Displaced in North Kivu

7 August 2012

The United Nations humanitarian chief today discussed ways to boost relief efforts to the more than 270,000 people that have been displaced from their homes by violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) North Kivu province.

"Thousands of people are looking for help and support from their Government and the humanitarian community," said the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, who is currently on a three-day visit to the Central African country.

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