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Some 2,767 children still missing

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    By the middle of May, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) had registered 3,384 children missing since January in the Freetown area. Some 517 had been reunited with their families but 2,767 were still missing.

    HACU reports that a meeting between agencies and the Ministry of Social Welfare took place recently on reuniting families in different refugee camps in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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