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November 3, 2008

UN Aid Convoy Hears to Eastern Congo
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In news from Africa, a UN convoy carrying aid workers and medical
supplies has crossed into a rebel-held zone of eastern Congo on Monday
on a mission to help tens of thousands of civilians displaced by
fighting. The UN refugee agency has said it feared that at least 50,000
displaced civilians may have abandoned unprotected camps around
Rutshuru. A ceasefire in the area was recently declared, but aid
agencies have called the humanitarian situation “catastrophic” and say
that tens of thousands of civilians are in urgent need of shelter, food,
water and medical care.