Africa-Press – Angola. The senior protection officer for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Aram Fahim, assured this Tuesday that the institution and its partners will continue to assist exiles from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Lóvua, Lunda-Norte province, until December of this year.
Recently, the UNHCR representative in Angola, Emmanuelle Mitte, announced that the agency will close its offices in the country due to a shortage of financial resources caused by reduced donations and/or funding.
The official made these statements at the end of a meeting with the municipal administrator of Lôvua, António Mussumari, emphasizing that despite financial constraints, UNHCR will continue to support the Angolan government in assisting refugees, contributing to safeguarding the fundamental rights of this group of people.He assured that conditions are being created for the World Food Programme (WFP), World Vision, and the Evangelical Church of the Brothers in Angola (IEIA) to continue working until December to assist the more than six thousand refugees in the Lóvua settlement.
He praised the Angolan government’s support in welcoming and protecting refugees since May 2027, “an action that has rekindled the hope of DRC citizens who fled their country due to ethnic and political conflicts.”Aram Fahim leads a delegation composed of representatives from the US Embassy in Angola, the WFP, and the head of the UNHCR office in Lunda Norte.
Currently, the Lóvua settlement controls more than 6,000 refugees, out of the 35,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who sought refuge and safety in Angola in May 2017, fleeing violence in the Kasai region, a crisis that led to the declaration of a state of emergency.
In Angola, UNHCR controls a total of 56,000 refugees of various nationalities, mostly from the DRC.
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