More aid flown to Cuito
United Nations planes flew more aid yesterday to Cuito in Angola, where up to 30,000 people are believed to have died in a nine-month rebel siege, Reuter reports from Johannesburg. UN officials hoped to evacuate trapped Portuguese residents during a rare truce. Aid workers managed to visit the central highland on Friday for the first time since the siege began.
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