Attachments
Influx of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues, with some 200-400 new arrivals per day.
Construction work at the new Lóvua site began on 22 June. The site is designed to accommodate some 30,000 refugees.
55 families were assisted with shelter support. Some 3,000 people are sensitized daily on issues such as good hygiene practices and malaria prevention.
KEY FIGURES
31,242
Newly arrived Congolese refugees (Government of Angola)
27,193
Pre-registered Congolese refugees in the Dundo area (21 June 2017) of whom 15,649 people have been individually registered.
50,000
Number of newly-arrived Congolese refugees expected in Angola by the end of the year (inter-agency planning figure)
Update On Key Achievements
Operational Context
As the violence in the Kasai Province continues, hundreds of Congolese asylum-seekers, mostly children and women, continue to flee to northern Angola every day. Continued clashes, a shortage of basic items, including food, as well as disorder will likely continue to spark refugee influx with dire protection and life-saving needs. Refugees, including many unaccompanied and separated children and single-headed households, arrive mainly from provinces bordering Angola and south-eastern Kasai region.
Protection assessments confirm brutal violence, with women and children arriving with severe wounds and reporting harassment, rape and killings. Arrivals fleeing ahead of violence are in urgent need of medical and psychosocial treatment, protection, shelter, food and basic items. Refugees are currently sheltered in two reception centres which are already overcrowded, while the development of a site allocated by the Government of Angola to host refugees has started, in coordination with the Ministry of Welfare and Social Reintegration (MINARS) and key humanitarian and development partners to allow for adequate protection and quality assistance. More partners are becoming operational in Lunda Norte.
MINARS, on behalf of the inter-ministerial committee set up by the Government of Angola, is coordinating the response to the unfolding crisis with the support of UNHCR. UN Agencies, partners, and international and national NGOs also actively support the refugee response in Angola.