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UN, NGO workers arrive in Guinea

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    A group of UNHCR and NGO workers and their dependents arrived in Guinea on Friday night from Liberia, UNHCR information officer Fatoumata Kaba told IRIN from Conakry on Saturday. The group included one Ivoirian and 35 Liberians from UNHCR and 30 Liberians from OCAM, an NGO, who had been held up at the border by a group calling itself the Joint Forces for Liberian Liberation (JFLL). It also included nine persons - four Brits, one Italian, three Liberians and a Norwegian from Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), Medical Emergency Relief International (MERLIN) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) - who had been abducted by armed men in Liberia earlier in the week. Kaba said they were all being accomodated in Macenta, some 25 km from the border with Liberia, while preparations were being made to transport them to other destinations.

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