Angolan expulsions cause 'mayhem' in DRC

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Luanda, Angola

The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) interior minister has told Angola that its mass expulsions of tens of thousands of Congolese is causing mayhem and appealed for cooperation.

"The mass return of our compatriots caught us off guard," said Interior Minister Theophile Mbemba Mfundu late on Tuesday following talks with Foreign Minister Joao Miranda.

" DRC does not have the necessary logistics to accommodate these people repatriated from Angola," said Mfundu.

Angolan authorities have rounded up more than 60 000 foreigners, most of them from the DRC, over the past four months during army and police raids launched to clamp down on illegal diamond mining and trading by foreigners.

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