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08/21/2004:

"Scramble for Resources in DRC Leads to Massive Deaths, But Scant Attention"

allafrica.com
With an estimated 3.5 million Congolese dead over the last six years due to war, starvation and disease, the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the world's worst long-running humanitarian disasters. About 3.3 million people are out of reach of relief organizations. full article