Mick Jagger Supports Film For Congo Refugees

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has endorsed a film which highlights the suffering of a quarter of a million refugees in eastern DR Congo.

Gimme Shelter, which is set to the band's song of the same name, has been directed by Hollywood actor and director Ben Affleck.

The refugee agency UNHCR hope the film will raise £14.9million to help provide aid and clean drinking water for refugees.

Affleck, who shot the film in the North Kivu region, told the BBC he wanted Gimme Sheltr to show the “pretty bleak humanitarian catastrophe” which has escalated following recent fighting between soldiers and rebels in the country.

He added: "On the other hand, I wanted to try to show people something about the refugee situation that they hadn't seen which is that there's an extraordinary dignity to refugees.”

Upwards of a million people are thought to have been displaced in DR Congo.

(by Jason Gregory)

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