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Reuters: Faced with a dearth of United Nations peacekeepers, lack of funding and competition from other global crises, relief agencies are struggling to contain a growing humanitarian disaster in Democratic Republic of Congo's mining heartland.
More than a decade after the official end of a 1998-2003 war that killed millions of people in Congo, mostly from hunger and disease, donors are keen to switch from emergency aid to longer-term development projects in the vast central African country.
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U.N., aid groups overstretched by crisis Congo mining heartland
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 14th, 2014
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