CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN Weekly Round-up 43
DRC: Massive refugee influx expected from Angola
UNHCR is preparing for an influx of up to 18,000 refugees into DRC from
Angola as a result of intensified clashes between government forces and
UNITA rebels in Angola's Lunda Norte Province, the agency stated on
Tuesday. The UNHCR had received reports that between 15,000 and 18,000
displaced Angolans had gathered in border villages waiting to cross into
the DRC province of Bandundu, southeast of Kinshasa, spokesman Kris
Janowski told a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The DRC already
hosts 170,000 Angolan refugees who fled during earlier stages of Angola's
civil war. UNHCR was expecting many of the Angolan refugees to cross into
Kahemba, not far inside the DRC, where the agency is already looking after
some 100,000 Angolan refugees, Janowski said.
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