Congo: Government closes IDP sites

The government of the Republic of the Congo has closed all sites for internally displaced people (IDPs) of the Pool Department, the Ministry for Solidarity and Humanitarian Action said on Monday. In a communiqué, it said all seven sites were closed on Saturday. In January the government began to assist the voluntary return of thousands of IDPs in Kinkala, a town 50 km west of the capital, Brazzaville, to their home villages in the Pool. In April, IDPs were also taken from the districts of Mbanza-Ndounga, Ngoma Tse Tse and Kibossi back to the Pool.