The European Commission has agreed to send more than EUR 50 million in humanitarian aid

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Series Details 08/08/99, Volume 5, Number 27
Publication Date 08/07/1999
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Date: 08/07/1999

to the Great Lakes region of central Africa. The aid will fund programmes in the war-torn region over the next eight months, with €20 million going towards food aid for refugees from Tanzania, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo and €33 million earmarked for humanitarian aid in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and the two Congos.

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