The United Nations is assisting at least 8,000 people on the outskirts of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, who were displaced in October by instability. Many of the IDPs, who started to flee "lawless conditions" in the Pool region in mid October, had arrived in Brazzaville in "poor conditions", the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported last Friday.