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Aid convoy sets out in DR Congo

The UN is to send an aid convoy to help some of the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in DR Congo. Many thousands of people have been displaced by fighting between government forces and rebels, and are in desperate need of food and shelter. Foreign Secretary David Miliband discusses what Britain is prepared to do to aid the people of DR Congo.

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