Angolans flee DRC despite end to expulsions

As many as 150 Angolans a day are still fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo despite the end of the formal expulsions, a United Nations official told AFP Thursday. The Red Cross estimates that around 40 000 Angolans have returned home after a mass expulsion by the DR Congo government in retaliation for a prolonged deportation campaign against illegal Congolese immigrants living in Angola. The two governments have since agreed to stop the deportations but Koen Vanormelingen, the Angola representative of the UN Children's Fund UNICEF, told AFP: "We are still seeing 100 to 150 people a day coming across, although this is significantly down on the 1 000 a day we witnessed last week". Continues Below ↓ He said many had chosen to return to... [read full story]                    

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