DRC/Angola: Humanitarian situation of expelled Congolese stabilising

The humanitarian situation of tens of thousands of Congolese who had been expelled from Angola into two southwestern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is stabilising as the number of new arrivals decreases, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported last Thursday. In a report detailing the situation of the expellees in the provinces of Bandundu and Kasai Occidental, OCHA said that the improvement in the humanitarian conditions could be attributed to a request made by the Congolese authorities to Angola to halt the expulsion of illegal migrants in its diamond mines until better conditions for their return could be arranged.