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DATE=10/13/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N / ANGOLA (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-254961
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The U-N World Food Program says it is now 
providing food aid to more than one-million people in 
Angola -- an increase of 300-thousand in the past 
month.  Lisa Schlein in Geneva reports the agency says 
the Angolan government's offensive against UNITA 
rebels has made thousands more people homeless and in 
need of help.
TEXT:  The World Food Program says thousands of people 
between the cities of Malange and Huambo have been on 
the move since the Angolan government intensified its 
attacks against UNITA.  It says the situation in 
Huambo is particularly dire.
W-F-P spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume says 
malnutrition levels among the displaced and local 
populations have reached 17-percent, which is 
considered a very high level.  She says more than 50-
percent of the children cared for in special feeding 
centers are seriously malnourished.
            /// BERTHIAUME ACT ONE ///
      It is not only children who fled with their 
      families from fighting, it is also the local 
      residents, the people of the town.  And, not 
      only the children are malnourished, but 50-
      percent of the mothers who do accompany those 
      children to the feeding center, they do suffer 
      also. 
            /// END ACT ///
Ms. Berthiaume says the situation in many Angolan 
cities has become so desperate that the World Food 
Program is not only feeding the children who are 
suffering from malnutrition, but also the family.
            ///  BERTHIAUME ACT TWO  ///
      Why?  Because the mother is so desperate that 
      she will take the food from that small kid, her 
      newborn baby and will give it to her older 
      children who are in better shape, that are not 
      as bad as the little kid.  Why?  Because they 
      want at least to keep the one that is more fit 
      alive.  
            /// END ACT ///
The United Nations estimates about 200-people a day 
are dying from hunger and disease in Angola.  It 
estimates about two-million people have been displaced 
by the civil war.  
Ms. Berthiaume says it is probable that more people 
will be made homeless.  And that, she says, means the 
World Food Program's caseload of needy people will 
increase.   (SIGNED)
NEB/LS/JWH/RAE
13-Oct-1999 07:55 AM EDT (13-Oct-1999 1155 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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