U.N. Planes Rush Aid to Angolan ‘Hell City’
U.N. planes flew more aid Sunday to Cuito, a besieged and starving Angolan city of dying children, thousands of graves and floating bodies that have poisoned its river water.
Up to 30,000 people are believed to have died in a nine-month rebel siege of what has become Angola’s “hell city.”
U.N. officials hoped to arrange the evacuation of trapped Portuguese residents during a rare truce.
Aid workers visited the central highlands city Friday for the first time since the siege began. A World Food Program official in Luanda said Sunday that the situation in the city was much worse than anyone had imagined.
Food was flown in Saturday, and the WFP was flying three more planeloads of 18 tons of food each Sunday, the official said.
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