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Thousands homeless after DR Congo’s worst floods in sixty years

Thousands homeless after DR Congo’s worst floods in sixty years

IN a makeshift camp for people displaced by floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo, father-of-three Cyprien Seka anxiously watched his baby nap on the floor of a crowded tent and wondered if it would ever be safe to return home. Torrential rains swelled the Congo River to its highest level in over 60 years in late December and forced around 500,000 people to flee the rising waters. "It's been almost a month since we left our homes because of the flooding... We are suffering," Seka said at the camp on the grounds of a Catholic church on the outskirts of the…
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African migrants desert official camp in Spain

African migrants desert official camp in Spain

BORJA SUAREZ DOZENS of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spain's Canary Islands, leaving an official, much larger camp where they said they had received poor food, scant medical attention and did not have enough showers. In the face of soaring levels of migration from Africa, authorities on the Canaries have resorted to housing thousands in converted former military facilities. More than 1,500 have been living in the Las Raices camp, a former barracks near the city of La Laguna on Tenerife for the last two months. "The camp is really bad," said a Senegalese migrant who gave…
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