UN seeks $65m for DRC emergency

UN officials have launched a bid  to raise 65 point four million dollars in emergency funds for thousands of people displaced by violence in Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region.  

Fighting between government troops and tribal militias has forced more than a million people from their homes over the past eight months.

The UN's Humanitarian Affairs Co-ordinator Mamadou Diallo said the funds would help respond to the urgent and multiple needs of seven hundred and thirty one thousand  people during the next six months in the Kasai area.The vast majority of people in need of help are women and children. 

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