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Risk of cholera in Freetown

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    Lack of drinking water, uncollected corpses and a shortage of latrines in areas where displaced people have gathered could lead to an outbreak of cholera in Freetown, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) said. An ACF assessment team that visited Freetown on Monday said the security situation remained precarious. An ACF nutritional centre had been moved from Kissy to the more secure western part of the city, and some 50 severely-malnourished children were being assisted there, ACF said in a statement received today by IRIN.

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