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ICRC re-opens Kenema office

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    The International Committee of the Red Cross will on Thursday re-establish a permanent presence in Kenema six months after closing its office, the head of the ICRC delegation in Freetown, Claudio Baranzini, told IRIN on Wednesday.

    ICRC staff have had a partial presence in the eastern town for the past two weeks. Last week, ICRC distributed plastic sheeting and roofing materials to between 10,000 and 15,000 displaced people sheltering in the town's Lebanese school camp, Baranzini said.

    He said that ICRC, together with other relief agencies, would continue to review the type of non-food items needed by Kenema's displaced population. He added that the ICRC would send a medical team to the town, in two weeks, to perform reconstructive and corrective surgery at the government
    hospital.

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