Refugees Reportedly Found in Dire Straits
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An aid mission to an area of eastern Zaire not visited by United Nations officials for weeks has discovered thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, many on the verge of death, U.N. officials said. Aid officials who traveled to Ubolo village distributed 26 tons of food before leaving with 468 refugees, mainly children. “We found about 5,000 to 6,000 refugees near a village [51 miles] south of Kisangani,” said Julian Fleet, a U.N. refugee agency official who led the mission.
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